How create a rope effect around a picture

Have you tried clip art in Word?

Clip art in Publisher?

other DTP applications?

Aerticeus

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I help a friend with her potter biz ads. She gave me a layout to do using a rope effect in an oval shape surrounding the ad . Can someone help me figure out how to approach doing this?

Should I use illustrator? Can I draw a shape with the pen tool and then turn the outline of the shape into rope. But where do I get the rope to start with?

Or do I make a piece of rope and then string it end to end around the shape? But how do I do this?

This seems like a common kind of problem to solve but I have never done it before so am stumped what techniques to use.

Thanks, Dale

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Aerticeus

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Have you tried clip art in Word?

Clip art in Publisher?

other DTP applications?

Aerticeus

wrote in message

I help a friend with her potter biz ads. She gave me a layout to do using a rope effect in an oval shape surrounding the ad . Can someone help me figure out how to approach doing this?

Should I use illustrator? Can I draw a shape with the pen tool and then turn the outline of the shape into rope. But where do I get the rope to start with?

Or do I make a piece of rope and then string it end to end around the shape? But how do I do this?

This seems like a common kind of problem to solve but I have never done it before so am stumped what techniques to use.

Thanks, Dale

On 1 Dec 2004 23:26:21 -0800, wrote:

I help a friend with her potter biz ads. She gave me a layout to do using a rope effect in an oval shape surrounding the ad . Can someone help me figure out how to approach doing this?

Should I use illustrator? Can I draw a shape with the pen tool and then turn the outline of the shape into rope. But where do I get the rope to start with?

Or do I make a piece of rope and then string it end to end around the shape? But how do I do this?

This seems like a common kind of problem to solve but I have never done it before so am stumped what techniques to use.

Thanks, Dale

A piece of software which will do exactly what you want, and is free, is available fro Microsoft. It’s Expression (which Microsoft bought fro Creature House in 2003). A lot of the graphics people who were around in the Nineties will probably remember it – it could do a lot of things no other software was capable of and still has some tricks that others don’t.

Anyway, it’s a version 3 beta but it works and is a useful tool. You’ll find it at:

http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/default.asp?pg= home

You do have to sign up for it and it is a 53Mb download, but it’s worth every penny 😉

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Hecate – The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui

Hecate wrote:

On 1 Dec 2004 23:26:21 -0800, wrote:

I help a friend with her potter biz ads. She gave me a layout to do using a rope effect in an oval shape surrounding the ad . Can someone help me figure out how to approach doing this?

Should I use illustrator? Can I draw a shape with the pen tool and then turn the outline of the shape into rope. But where do I get the rope to start with?

Or do I make a piece of rope and then string it end to end around the shape? But how do I do this?

This seems like a common kind of problem to solve but I have never done it before so am stumped what techniques to use.

Thanks, Dale

A piece of software which will do exactly what you want, and is free, is available fro Microsoft. It’s Expression (which Microsoft bought fro Creature House in 2003). A lot of the graphics people who were around in the Nineties will probably remember it – it could do a lot of things no other software was capable of and still has some tricks that others don’t.

Anyway, it’s a version 3 beta but it works and is a useful tool. You’ll find it at:

http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/default.asp?pg= home
You do have to sign up for it and it is a 53Mb download, but it’s worth every penny 😉

—

Hecate – The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui

Hmmm – this is fun!

Note to self: it looks like an Intuos pen/pad/mouse is a must

Groovy

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You could make the twisted path in Illustrator save the path then import to PS. I would create a new layer for each path then apply some bevel, shadow, and texture style.
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I help a friend with her potter biz ads. She gave me a layout to do using a rope effect in an oval shape surrounding the ad . Can someone help me figure out how to approach doing this?

Should I use illustrator? Can I draw a shape with the pen tool and then turn the outline of the shape into rope. But where do I get the rope to start with?

Or do I make a piece of rope and then string it end to end around the shape? But how do I do this?

This seems like a common kind of problem to solve but I have never done it before so am stumped what techniques to use.

Thanks, Dale

Dale,
I sent you another e-mail. It bounced because of a spam filter you have. Please contact me direct off of the newsgroup.
Fred

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I help a friend with her potter biz ads. She gave me a layout to do using a rope effect in an oval shape surrounding the ad . Can someone help me figure out how to approach doing this?

Should I use illustrator? Can I draw a shape with the pen tool and then turn the outline of the shape into rope. But where do I get the rope to start with?

Or do I make a piece of rope and then string it end to end around the shape? But how do I do this?

This seems like a common kind of problem to solve but I have never done it before so am stumped what techniques to use.

Thanks, Dale

i now its a lame answer but … paint shop pro used to have a rope effect built in .. dont know if it still does since i have now grown up and use photoshop !!

ste

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Dale,
I sent you another e-mail. It bounced because of a spam filter you have. Please contact me direct
off of the newsgroup.
Fred

wrote in message

I help a friend with her potter biz ads. She gave me a layout to do using a rope effect in an oval shape surrounding the ad . Can someone help me figure out how to approach doing this?

Should I use illustrator? Can I draw a shape with the pen tool and then turn the outline of the shape into rope. But where do I get the rope to start with?

Or do I make a piece of rope and then string it end to end around the shape? But how do I do this?

This seems like a common kind of problem to solve but I have never done it before so am stumped what techniques to use.

Thanks, Dale