Anyone know if a Plug-in exists that lets you take a flat, 2D rendered file and make it look like it's affixed to a bottle, for instance, a label on a wine bottle. Thanks.
#1
Squizz.
#2
Ummm...what about Filter---»Render---»3D Transform...?
It's a little tricky, so you may be compelled to spend some time figuring out how it works.
#3
Andromeda's 3d Filter is okay. but it seems to not have been updated for osx. I never really liked it, but it worked in a pinch.
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http://www.andromeda.com/>
#4
Maya : )
(or StrataStudio)
#5
elastic reality...
has squizz got splines yet mike?
#6
I have just released an inexpensive plugin (for both Illustrator and Photoshop) which does the correct distortion for a front view of a label wrapped around a cylinder. See my web site <
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/info/cylinderdistort.html> for more details.
#7
I have an OS 9 version, so I'm not sure exactly what the question is...
#8
the last version i tried mike, had straight edge distortion grids, like liquify...what i would like is spline based distortion grid or cage like elastic reality offers or the tool in AI. Is it like those now?
#9
I have version 4.4
It has Grid Warping that is editable in a grid or what they call curves. (basically curving paths like a pen tool)
pretty cool, but the UI is kind of clunky.
#10
You can use the Illustrator CS distortion tools on rastered images. Just open the PSD file in Illustrator and use Object/Envelope Distort
. You could also use use Effects/Warp.
#11
hmm..
#12
yeh ann,...but it aint the fastest thing on the block...in fact i'd day it was one of the slowest...one wonders what it would be like if i chucked a high res file at it.
#13
looks like im stuck with the 3d apps for now.
#14
Speed depend on your computer, the size of the bottle label and how quickly Strata will render for you as opposed to Illustrator CS distorting.
However, a real 3D program lets you match lighting and shading to the roundness of the bottle.
#15
1.8ghz here, screen res file...slow ann, slow...
can map it in max, distort and render 4000x3000 in the time it takes for AI to nugde a 30mb file around.
your right about the shading, but more often than not a little dodge/burn in the right place will suffice...if we just had some long overdue decent distortion tool in PS it would help. I cant understand why we just havent had it yet...v10 maybe???
#16
There is something horribly wrong with your machine!
A 36 MB file envelope-distorts here in Illustrator CS in 26 seconds -- and is just the label alone really that size?
Do you have Illustrator's Scratch on a separate HD?
#17
not yet...will try
#18
just re-read...yes its that fast/slow...26 seconds!...half a minute to just bend something? thats slow ann, slow. i'd like something in the range of .25 sec...perhaps it needs to use a proxy image or something.
#19
Do it in LP then: "Distort on a Path"!
But, if you think about it, Illustrator is having to do some pretty intense calculations to remap each of your pixels to a new location. (A smaller image size (less pixels) is obviously MUCH faster.
I don't think that you will be able map AND render in Strata Pro a less amount time in total.
#20
3D applications are capable of subtle camera positions, lens lengths, lighting and ambient reflections.
Strata made a plug-in for Quark; it should be encouraged (or hired by Adobe) to make one for Photoshop.
#21
Ann, perhaps its because the apps i use dont use the actual bitmap but use a proxy for display, accelerated by openGL.
Its not strata i'm using, but in max and maya i can bend a 4000x3000 on geometry in realtime...rendering takes a few seconds. Its easily faster than AI, but obviously not always as easily playable as it would be in PS on the doc im working on, it takes a bit of setting up.
Whats LP?
At the end of the days i just wish PS would get this sorted, its a glaring inexplicable ommision, especially in an app 10 years old thats a market leader.
#22
Sorry: LP is LivePicture and, for some reason, I was under the impression that you had a copy. It runs in Classic but is hard to get hold of now -- although it sometimes comes up on eBay.
However, if you have a true 3D program, that is really the best way to wrap your bottle.
#23
I just had to do some 3d mapping and had to resort to going BACK to Photoshop 7 and using the Andromeda 3D filter in (ugh) OS9. $56 for the filter (I lost my old version years ago). Not a bad price and while the UI is out there, I got back on the horse and remembered all the ways this filter works and damn, it did a heck of a great job. I only hope they update to OSX someday. Once you get the hang of how this filter works, it can do just about anything you want.
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