Wrap a picture or a logo

I tried a couple of ways, but finally did it manually.

Before finding the balloon image, I was going to use Free Transform > Warp > Cylinder, and then use Spherize. But when I saw the panels and how each panel bulges out, I thought I'd try a Displacement map using a B&W version of the balloon as the map.  That didn't work out either.

It then occurred to me that with all those lines, you are almost in a sort of 'Painting By Numbers' situation, because they make it easy to do the distortion.

I am going to distort this rectangular Adobe logo.

A wee note on this.  I have lots of these graphics as Smart Objects in CC Libraries.  This one was red, which was not going to work against the red balloon, so I opened in a new window to edit, and changed it to blue, but wheen I got back to the balloon, it was still red.  I am not sure exactly what was happening, but it came down to it being linked to the Library asset, so when I did manage to make it blue (with a big hammer and a welding torch) I discovered that I'd broken the graphic in the Library.  So if you use CC Libraries in a similar way, be careful how you mess with them.  What I should have done is bring it into the balloon document, and use 'New Smart Object by Copy'.  I'll know next tiime.

It's important that this layer is a Smart Object, because you'll be using multiple FT operations on it.

OK, Free Transform, and Ctrl drag the corner handles to follow the balloon braces (I don't know the proper name)

This is where I tried a Displacement Map, which failed badly.  So FT > Warp to follow the braces.

You can see I have not got it spot on, but it's an SO so you can go back in fine tune it.

It's reasonably obvious how each panel will shape the graphic, so I outlined that with a clipping path, and used a Layer mask

Blend modes were not helping, so you can see I reduced the opacity a tiny bit.

The graphic is still flat, and needs some shading. I was going to use a 50% Grey layer set to Overlay, and manually apply shading, then I saw the layer I was going to use for the Displacement Map, so I moved it above, and clipped it to the graphic layer, and set it to Luminosity.

I am not going to do the text, ,because it would take a good hour I am guessing.  I'm thinking that I would copy the graphic and rasterize it, and then cut out each segment to a new layer.  Make them SOs, and shape them, but it would not be especially easy.

A wee tip is your graphic is not rectangular.

It's an SO, so open in a new edit window. Add a layer behind it and fill with colour, and stroke its outline.

Go back to the main document and reshape it. When done, double click it to its edit window, and turn off the temporary layer.  You can add a temporary grid layer on top if it helps.

Hi!

So you want the logo applied to the balloon? Or just attached to it like an extra flap of material?

If you want to wrap it onto the balloon, then use a displacement map. Here is a tutorial on creating a displacement map.

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/displacement-map.html

Following these steps will give you the same effect that you want on your balloon.

Let us know if you have any quesitons?

Michelle

I'm going to guess that this would be easiest in a dedicated 3D app like Substance.

Hi, in the edit menu, you'll find  puppet warp and the transform tool has a warp function too.

Some use displace with a greyscale copy of their support to distort the image, then use blend-if or layer modes for the shading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ7DVOFf1Ro

Filter > Distort > Sphereize might work.

It should be but you need to be more explicit… post a pic of alogo and the effect wanted so we can explore ways to get it right

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