Fitting an image to a shape

JM
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John_Marler
Aug 25, 2004
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In PS-CS (or elsewhere) is there a way to select part of an image, say a face or a car and then stretch and compress it to fit it "into" another shape, either a polygonal vector shape or a shape selected from another shape? For example, take a persons face and distort it to fit inside a Coke glass. I’ve looked in the manuals, but the "distort" features and the "liquify" dialog don’t make it easy to fill a predefined shape with the stretched image.
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Aug 25, 2004
You’re talking about Envelope or Grid-based distortions, and it’s something we users have been asking for in Photoshop for years.

Illustrator has it.

It’s available as a Photoshop plugin – Squizz, by Human Software < http://www.humansoftware.com/pages1200/Squizz/HSsquizz11.htm l>.

And you can do it by importing the image into CreatureHouse Expression. Free Beta version can be found at:
<http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/>

It’d be possible with Liquefy, but not very easily, nor with a lot of precise control.
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YrbkMgr
Aug 25, 2004
I’m speaking out of turn here, so forgive me if this is stupid…

Couldn’t you do that with a bump map?
Aug 25, 2004
"Couldn’t you do that with a bump map?"

This might be more easily facilitated if the Displacement Filter had a more interactive UI.

As it stands, it’d be kind of trial-and-error, methinks.

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