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salochin48
salochin48
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November 5, 2009
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Distort images in Illustrator?

  • November 5, 2009
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Mac OS 10.4.11 - Illustrator CS4.  Is it possible to distort an imported image, I have tried using the Free Transform Tool and applying the keys Alt/Apple to change the corner point to what seems like a distortion point. It gives a ghosted line that appears to distort albeit more of a 'shear' effect than individual corner distortion but on release reverts to the squared format it originally was. Without going into unnecessary client particulars I am building children's cubes and I would rather do this in Illustrator rather than Photoshop.

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    Mejor respuesta de Jacob Bugge

    salochin,

    If I understand you in the right way, you may select the image and the chosen face of the cube (which must be placed higher in the stacking order, if not pecking order), and Object>Envelope Distort>Make with Top Object; you may move the image to the bottom by Ctrl/Cmd+X+B.

    What does she say to her being distorted?

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    Anonymous
    November 5, 2009

    What does "import" mean? It's not in the Illustrator vernacular. I promise I'm not being fussy.

    You most certainly can distort an "imported" image. Not with the free transform tool but with either any of the warp effects or an envelope. Go ahead. Try.

    salochin48
    salochin48Autor
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    November 5, 2009

    Sorry Doug, I should have written 'place' but general working in several programs has a habit of making me blur the terms. All of what you recommend will allow me to distort an image to a predetermined form but I need to 'manually' distort the image to suit my purpose - see attachment. I will need to distort multiple images onto multiple cubes on different planes, all a little bit different from each other, so manual tugging of points are much better then co-ordinates.

      salochin48
      salochin48Autor
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      November 18, 2009

      salochin,

      Or do you mean by making an additional and slightly smaller radiused distorted panel and overlaying the above Distorted Envelope image and then Object>Clipping Mask>Make  - which worked, was this what you intended.

      It was, only I was presuming your creating the cube using distorted squares with sharp/single corners, and then adding slightly smaller rounded ones on top to create the actual faces; this would also fill the gaps between the rounded corners where the faces meet, but would obviously require your getting rid of the outer corners, which could be done using the Round Any Corner script here: http://park12.wakwak.com/~shp/lc/et/en_aics_script.html

      You could still add such a full square underneath each rounded square to contain a photo in step 1) and use the original rounded square as Clipping Mask in step 2).

      Or you could copy the rounded  square below, and Object>Path>Offset Path with a small positive value, just sufficient to hide the fringes, and use that in step 1).

      The former uses the full photo, but the latter is simpler to make.


      Thanks Jacob - the sharp cornered panel masked with the radiused panel is the way I will go.

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