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how can i manipulate Images in X3 please?
Hi All ….. please see screen shot ……
Basically what i’m trying to do is manipulate that banner so that it looks
like it’s on the side of the building. I need to pull each corner individually
so that it follows the perspective of the photo.Anyone know how I can do that ?? ……..
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13 Replies
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i use photoshop, not corel… but you should have a tool that allows you to skew the overlaid picture. it comes under the likes of transform tabs and the like. probably found along with mirror, rotate etc
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the ‘add perspective’ tab under ‘Effects’ will let you do it.
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Ah nice one Harry !!
It appears it wont let me do it as it contains images. 😥
At least I know for future reference. -
This is also a bit of a mare in Illy 3 and I always do it in Photoshop.
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want to post the file so we can have a look?
corel x3 is fine -
Hi Chris …. thanks for that offer.
Just saved the file, but the file size is 183MB !! 😮
The customer wanted to see how big it was on the side of the building,
so i’ve created a white block and used the perspective tool to show the
area it will cover and placed the banner next to the photo to show the
image. That should keep them happy. -
This sort of thing is best done in PhotoPaint, if it is in Draw – edit bitmap will launch PP for you to work on, on closing it will place it back into Draw OR export from Draw and open in PP. Although Draw does have bitmap editing features for Photoshop type editing tools use PP.
Alan D -
In PhotoPaint have the poster as an object above the background image. Use the pick tool to move the poster and resize. Every time you alter the object, right click to apply. Each time you click on the object you toggle through the following resize, rotate/skew, stretch then perspective. Use the stretch feature (has a double headed arrow at each corner of the object. Once you are happy with the result, right click and apply, then right click and combine objects with the background. Export as normal in your preferred format.
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if it was a vector based item, then Envelope it to the shape. Doesn’t work with bitmaps…. interesting thought tho.
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I do that a lot!
The best way is:
1- Duplicate this image, so you will not have to correct it again.
2- convert it to bitmap
3- Draw the correct perspective and convert it to bitmap with transparent background. and choose copy
4 – Open a new file in Photopaint and past the perspective
5 – Copy your image converted to bitmap and past as new object
6 – Select the image (object) standing on the drawed perspective, and choose effects+3D+perspective.
7 – Shape it the way you need and at the end copy/past on CorelI use Corel 12 but with X3 is not too different
In Photoshop may be easier but i do not use it, because i´m a vector worker, dots are only for adjusting color, brightness, etc… -
just wondering, does signlab, flexi, illustrator, etc have this as a feature?
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Flexisign is like Corel, it does it just on vectors!
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You can trabsform bitmaps in Signlab directly and Signlab V8 now comes with Gimp for more advanced bitmap editing. Gimp is free but SL does make it easy to go back and forth.
Alan D
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