"Bending" paintbrush

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Posted By
Melissa_Burrell
Jul 19, 2004
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I am currently working on an image that I want to look like a paintbrush is painting it. I need to bend the paintbrush, not quite a half circle. I know the basics of Photoshop, but not the more in-depth stuff. I have tried several things, but nothing seems to work. I do not want to distort the paintbrush, as it has our company logo on it, just bend it a little. I use Photoshop 7.0. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!
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Ed_Hannigan
Jul 19, 2004
Try Filter>Distort>Shear. You will probably need to rotate the image 90° first.

Another possibility is Polar Co-ordinates. Tutorial here: <http://user.fundy.net/morris/>
It’s for text but will work with objects.

And there’s always Liquify.
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Melissa_Burrell
Jul 19, 2004
Shear worked for what I am needing. Thanks!
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Ken_Nielsen
Jul 19, 2004
There’ll be a nice bonus in your pay envelope this period Ed.
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Ed_Hannigan
Jul 19, 2004
I wish.
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Ann_Shelbourne
Jul 20, 2004
For better control, you can also use Illustrator CS’s distortion tools on a PSD file.
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Mike_Ornellas
Jul 20, 2004
interesting, but lacks fine motor controls.
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Ann_Shelbourne
Jul 20, 2004
That depends on the person driving the Motor?

Direct Select on a point, or a series of points, on the mesh and nudge.
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progress
Jul 20, 2004
lacks speed and fluency for sure…but its the best we have, for some unknown reason for now within the adobe suite.
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Ann_Shelbourne
Jul 20, 2004
It is pretty fast here — but see my comments in the bottle-label thread.

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