maximumfitness

ok, i want this text to look like it's printed on this wooden tube. how can i achieve this effect?

nitrobutler

Before you rasterize the text, try, Wrap text >Bulge>Vertical about +40% or so \:]

Josh

C'mon Bob, give it a try first

I mean, just take a pencil or crayon and look it.

Here are some links:

http://www.ess.pdx.edu/ets/NASP_page...ics/pencil.jpg

http://www.mustangparts.com/images/pencil.jpg

It's not that I don't want to help, but I would like to teach others to use the most useful 'tool' for an artist called...

... [size=24px]EYES! [/size] [righton]

Let me know how you're doing and if you're still having problems, then I'm more than willing to help you.

maximumfitness

i couldn't get the warp text to look right.
the best i could get wa cutting it n half the use transform distort on each half of the text.

nitrobutler

Looks good to me [righton]

Bacardi

Just thinks a while...a pencil is a 3D object. This means perspective and lights and shadows.

One point perspective on a horizontal cilinder lying on the horizon (the simplest of cases)...try the spherize filter at a low setting (10-20%) if you exagerrate the pencil itself will appear warped.

Where is your light source, and where will your shadows be?
On what surface will the pencil lie?
Is it a glossy one (>reflections) or a natural wooden one?
etcetc

maximumfitness

that does not work for me either |

Josh

Bob, you're not really trying...

I get the impression that you don't know how this text should look like and that's not so much of a problem, because there are so many examples on the internet. If you would have done like I told you, then you wouldn't have up with the wrong results. Does that sound fair?

Here, since Google doesn't work with your ISP , I'll show you a quick example that I made. Look at it and if you like what you see, try to copy it. At least give it a try, because until now I have no clue what kind of difficulties you're having.

One tip: one of the tools to use is filter/distort/shear (make sure that you select the complete text and nothing but the text).

Also have a look at my letter "E"; the top horizontal line is thinner than the bottom one, ask yourself why that is and then try to do this in Photoshop too.

maximumfitness

nice josh but i need the effect looking straght at it.

Josh

Don't tell me that you have no clue how to do it even if I showed an example in perspective...
I used my precious time to come up with an example, an example that you could have found too on the internet but you obviously didn't have 5 minutes during a whole week to look at some Google images..

What do you want us to do? Hand it out on a golden plate?

What's so hard to understand?

Take a coke can look at it for 10 minutes, go to Google and look at several other examples. Did you do that? No, because if you had you wouldn't come up with your efforts that are way off.

I give up. You don't show any willingness to learn or at least to use your eyes.

Bob, I'll give you a word of advice; stop thinking that everybody is better than you and that you can't do it on your own.
You have way more capabilities than you are aware of, but if you never understand that the eyes are such a magnifent tool, then you'll restrict yourself in your development as an artist.

Take for example glass balls/orbs. I saw a complete thread dedicated to this; http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum...?t=888&start=0
That thread is THE example that shows how important it is to use your eyes and those members who did made the most beautiful glassy objects, but they also put the effort into it.