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How to curve an image
I’m trying to mock up a visual of a mug with a logo, I have imported a high res mug image into coreldraw and I want to mock it up with a customers logo so I need to curve it slightly, to make it look realistic.
I’m struggling to find how to do this, I’ve tried the envelope tool but this distorts the image, and I have tried the perspective tool as well but no joy.
All help much appreciated.
thanks
Jason
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10 Replies
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Might be able to do it in Corel PhotoPaint
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Thanks dave, I would have to convert the logo to a bitmap then and I don’t really want to do this, I would have thought this kind of thing would be quite straightforward to do in corel with a vector image.
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I’ve sublimated 1000s of mugs over the years and I have to say I don’t waste my time on trying to mock up the designs so it looks like it’s on a mug. They never look good anyway.
Best use of my time and money is to print the design, sub to mug, either send actual mug to customer for approval or take a photo and e-mail. That’s if they are intending to place a worthwhile quantity order, otherwise I just send the "letterbox" flat design in PDF and explain it will wrap around the mug.
:police: Please take a moment to look over our Board Rules.
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make a copy then convert to bitmap and then do what you have to for visual reasons.
leaving the original alone for adjustments.
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Hi Jason. Do you not have a simple distort function like in Flexisign? Is it an add on maybe?
That is if you mean a mock up like this:
p.s. this took me 2 mins to mock up from scratch, including drawing that poor excuse for a mug :lol1: so far quicker than sending a sample.
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Print design onto normal paper, trim to size of mug, apply with masking tape, photograph (tape will be behind). Distortion done!
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Thanks for all the suggestions, I’m amazed that there doesn’t appear to be an easy way to do this in coreldraw
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Jason……
I think you might be missing something with the envelope tool. I’ve just tried it with an image I had on my screen of an estate agents board and it worked well
I grouped everything together……….Used ‘Putty’ mode and clicked on the little ‘unconstrained’ icon
On my image were eight control nodes…..I removed the centre node from the top and bottom and dragged a nice curve shape that would suit a mug
as I say…..it worked well for me
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Glenn,
Many thanks that has worked brilliantly
thanks again
Jason
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No probs Jason…..glad you got it sorted
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