try this:
(don't get all cranky on me boys and girls, but this is a task that is easier to do in PSP8
than in PS7, because Jasc's warp tools aren't shoved in a dialog box like liquify is, and you
can see your guides and layers while you're working.) HOWEVER, that aside...
here's a way to have a guide you can see inside the liquify dialog box.
Put your t-shirt image on its own layer. Name this layer "shirt" Create a new layer.
On the new layer, draw a fairly bold straight line in a contrasting color (doesn't
matter what color, because you're going to trash it later) under the text you are
trying to straighten. Fill the rest of the layer with white or black or some other
solid (whichever contrasts best with your
shirt image) Name this layer "guide" (If you need to align the top and bottom of the text,
you can draw a contrasting rectangle the size you want the text to be instead of a line,
or if you have upper/lower case letters you can create more guides-- one for the
caps, one for lc, one for lc ascenders, one for lc descenders-- it would look a little
like the paper they use to teach gradeschoolers to print on ) Drag this layer below the "shirt" layer
Click on the shirt layer, and choose Filter>liquefy
Down in the lower right corner of the dialog box see the option called "backdrop'?
set that to the "guide" layer and reduce the opacity enough to see the guide through the shirt.. now use liquify (and a big old brush tip-- set the brush
parameters to allow a smooth distortion) to straighten out the image
When you're done, delete the guide layer.
"Cactus Bob" wrote in message
Someone gave me a scan of text on a T-shirt that needs correcting.
Because
it was fabric, and they were not careful enough, the scanned words are not straight. They curve up like the arch of a bridge. I have been fooling with Photoshop trying to pull the center portion down into a straight line of text again. I select the entire image and use the transform tools but haven't been able to "pull the arch down." Any suggestions?
The shirt is no longer available to rescan. I would prefer to work on the entire image at once instead of each letter (which would seem to be a prohibitive task, as there are a lot of characters to deal with).
Thanks in advance
--Cactus