Hi, I've been trying to add a picture wrapped around the bottom edge of a hat in Photoshop. I’ve tried using the wrap tools and watched multiple YouTube tutorials, but I’m still having trouble getting the image to perfectly curve around the hat’s bottom edge. The effect I’m aiming for looks something like this (describe or attach image), but I haven’t been able to nail the curve. Can anyone suggest how to achieve a smoother, more accurate wrap? Thanks so much for your help!
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You have two planes with the dome and the peek. The image won't flow from one to the other, but you could do a sort of mitre effect. It' coming up to 1AM here and I need my bed, but I'll have a go in the morning if you are still needing help.
OK, nothing seems to have happened.
I suspect you were trying to do it in one go, and that was going to be impossible. In fact I was unable to get a realistic reshaping of the graphic for the cap's peek, and that was after breaking it up into multiple parts.
The dome was fairly easy. I used Polar Coordinates to produce the mitre transition from the dome to the peak, added a quarter quadrent to the graphic, and used Transform > Warp > Arch. So long as you are using Smart Objects you can keep going back in to fine tuine the curve to fit the cap.
I couldn't get a nice enough result for the peek, but it didn't take long to use the Pen tool to create shape layers — one for each orang line with no fill and Stroke > Inside for the lines. You have to go well beyong the peek and clip them to the peek, or you'll get thickening of the lines at the ends.
IM used Generative Fill to expand the starfield and saved all three options so I could experiment. This meant I did not have to distort the starfield layer. Jus positioned behind the oprange lines, rotated, and masked.
One small regret. I had set the orange lines to Difference so the cap's texture showed through, but that turned to custard when the starfield was placed behind them. Rather than bugger about with masks, I set them back to normal. About twenty minutes work, but there is no easy fix I can think of.
Several years ago, Adobe Sketch had a feature where you could save a graphic as a brush. When you painted with it, it would apply the graphic to follow the stroke, similar to Illustrator's Art Brushes. They would be a natural for this sort of thing.
Adobe Fresco appears to have something similar, "Pixel Brushes", but I don't know if they work in the same way, as I've never used it. I still have several Sketch brushes in my CC library, which cannot be used in any existing software. You can, however, see a sample preview of them. This is from a tube of Carmex Lip Balm:
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