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June 16, 2020
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Is there a tool to wrap a label around a cylinder?

  • June 16, 2020
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Hello,

I’m wondering if Photoshop has a tool to wrap a label around a bottle. I’ve been using Free Transform and Warp, but there doesn’t seem to be a tool that properly distorts a flat label to fit a cylinder. As I do this the label shrinks linearly, where a label should be barely shrinking laterally in the front-most part of the bottle, but approaching infinite lateral shrinkage at the edges/side of the bottle.

I have broken the label into several vertical sections and made crude estimations on the required lateral shrinkage, but a tool designed for the job would be much better.

I do realize the tool would require an input for the width of the cylinder, (a one inch wide label on a three inch wide bottle would need little distortion, for example) but that should be easy to incorporate.

Thank you for your thoughts and help!

Dan

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barbara_a7746676
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June 16, 2020

You can do it with the 3D feature in Photoshop. There are several tutorials on the web. This is one of them

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/35376/ideal-way-to-wrap-a-label-around-a-bottle-3d-extrude