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skewing a picture to a particular shape

Sep 7, 2012 4:10 AM

I have drawn a shape as a template for a picture which I want to skew into the same sort of shape. I have tried various tools (including Shear, Free Transform, white arrow and arrow +, ...) but I cannot get it to go into that particular shape, though some have moved it towards the shape, but not exactly.

 

I thought this would be easy, just using the white arrow and selecting one corner point at a time, moving it to the place I want it to be.

 

Here is the shape (the yellow part):

Yellow shape.jpg

 

How can I get my picture into that shape and angle?

 

Thanks for any help.

1120 Views   10 Replies   Latest reply: Wade_Zimmerman, Sep 10, 2012 4:45 AM
 
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  • James_233
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    2. James_233,
    Sep 7, 2012 5:53 AM   in reply to Monika Gause
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    Thank you very much for your help. I'll check it out and let you know if it is the solution (it looks like it is).

     
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  • Ton Frederiks
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    3. Ton Frederiks,
    Sep 9, 2012 3:33 AM   in reply to James_233
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    Place the image and choose Embed Image(s) from the Links Panel.

    Select the shape you want to use for distortion and choose Object/Arrange/Bring to front.

    Select both the shape and the picture and choose: Object/Envelope Distort/Make with Top Object.

     

    Distort.jpg

    regards,

     

    Ton

     
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  • James_233
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    4. James_233,
    Sep 9, 2012 4:08 AM   in reply to Ton Frederiks
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    Thank you very much. Very simple solution - as it should be in a sophisticated app as Illustrator is supposed to be. Now I know how to do this!

     
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  • Jacob Bugge
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    5. Jacob Bugge,
    Sep 9, 2012 6:36 AM   in reply to James_233
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    James, Ton,

     

    No need to embed: it also works for linked images (or so it did when Illy was younger).

     
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  • Ton Frederiks
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    6. Ton Frederiks,
    Sep 9, 2012 11:46 AM   in reply to Jacob Bugge
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    Hi Jacob,

    For CS5, 5.5 and 6 you need to embed. Maybe not for earlier versions, but I cannot check that.

     
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    7. Jacob Bugge,
    Sep 9, 2012 12:23 PM   in reply to Ton Frederiks
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    Ton,

     

    Strange to see the options narrow with new versions.

     

    But as you can see from post #5, I thought it might be so.

     
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  • Wade_Zimmerman
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    8. Wade_Zimmerman,
    Sep 9, 2012 5:58 PM   in reply to Ton Frederiks
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    The technic works but it should be pointed out that it might distort the image in a way you might not  expect it to for example

     

    Screen Shot 2012-09-09 at 8.44.12 PM.png

     

    Screen Shot 2012-09-09 at 8.43.56 PM.png

     
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  • Ton Frederiks
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    9. Ton Frederiks,
    Sep 9, 2012 11:55 PM   in reply to Wade_Zimmerman
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    Photoshop will give you the best result and the most control for these distortions.

    But you can influence the distortion in Illustrator by making the transformation not so extreme.

    If you rotate the distortion shape first (see example) and after distorting rotate it back, you will get a better result.

    Rotate first.jpg

     
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    10. Wade_Zimmerman,
    Sep 10, 2012 4:45 AM   in reply to Ton Frederiks
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    That is true but that is also poinbting out the limitations ou will faace by using Illustrator this way.

     

    If the purpose is to give the photo a perspective in a 3D space instead of a specific shape then you might do better cnverting it to a symbol and mapping it to a a 3D plane. Which would give live controil over the perspective and it's rotation in the 3D space. But even that would be done better with Photoshops 3D feature.

     
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