Making a realistic-looking cable?

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Aug 10, 2005
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I have a challenge to create a realistic-looking cable & connector in a print document.

I photographed the connector & cable and polished them up in Photoshop.

After transferring them to Illustrator, I found that it’s not a simple task to bend a raster object. I tried several tools and the warp tool came close, but making a gradual 45 degree bend with little or no distortion doesn’t seem possible.

So I’m looking for ways to bend the raster-object cable without much distortion, make a 10 mm-wide cable segment (a single line drawn using the arc drawing tool) look more realistic, or to somehow import the look of the cable surface from Photoshop and apply that to the line segment.

Or other methods I’ve not yet thought of.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Photoshop CS 8.0 (Mac); Illustrator CS 10 (Mac)

Thanks,
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Hecate
Aug 10, 2005
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:52:10 -0700, DaveC wrote:

I have a challenge to create a realistic-looking cable & connector in a print document.

I photographed the connector & cable and polished them up in Photoshop.
After transferring them to Illustrator, I found that it’s not a simple task to bend a raster object. I tried several tools and the warp tool came close, but making a gradual 45 degree bend with little or no distortion doesn’t seem possible.

So I’m looking for ways to bend the raster-object cable without much distortion, make a 10 mm-wide cable segment (a single line drawn using the arc drawing tool) look more realistic, or to somehow import the look of the cable surface from Photoshop and apply that to the line segment.
Or other methods I’ve not yet thought of.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Photoshop CS 8.0 (Mac); Illustrator CS 10 (Mac)

Thanks,

Someone will no doubt give you an Illy solution, but (and I don’t know if you can still download) there’s a program called Expression which Microsoft bought which does this sort of thing very well V3. Beta 2 was a free download). Also, if you are working from a photograph you might like to look as RealDraw Pro
(http://www.mediachance.com/realdraw/), which also does this sort of thing very well and, more easily than Illy.

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iehsmith
Aug 11, 2005
On 8/10/05 4:37 PM, Hecate uttered:

a program called Expression which
Microsoft bought which does this sort of thing very well V3. Beta 2 was a free download).

I do’t know the URL, but MS has a new beta out, for Windows only *grrr*, and have renamed it Acrylic.
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Zugi
Aug 11, 2005
"DaveC" wrote in message
I have a challenge to create a realistic-looking cable & connector in a
print
document.

I photographed the connector & cable and polished them up in Photoshop.
After transferring them to Illustrator, I found that it’s not a simple
task
to bend a raster object. I tried several tools and the warp tool came
close,
but making a gradual 45 degree bend with little or no distortion doesn’t
seem
possible.

So I’m looking for ways to bend the raster-object cable without much distortion, make a 10 mm-wide cable segment (a single line drawn using the arc drawing tool) look more realistic, or to somehow import the look of
the
cable surface from Photoshop and apply that to the line segment.
Or other methods I’ve not yet thought of.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Photoshop CS 8.0 (Mac); Illustrator CS 10 (Mac)

Thanks,
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Please, no "Go Google this" replies. I wouldn’t ask a question here if I hadn’t done that already.

DaveC

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Maybe you could try and make it.
You have a lot of tutorials on this pages http://www.good-tutorials.com , I hope it helps you.
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Hecate
Aug 11, 2005
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:29:33 GMT, iehsmith
wrote:

On 8/10/05 4:37 PM, Hecate uttered:

a program called Expression which
Microsoft bought which does this sort of thing very well V3. Beta 2 was a free download).

I do’t know the URL, but MS has a new beta out, for Windows only *grrr*, and have renamed it Acrylic.

Thanks, I’ll have to download it 🙂

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you don’t have, to impress people you don’t like…

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