Need help creating a tattoo.

[Gundammit]

Hi guys, I'm getting a tattoo done and I wanted to get the borders of the Bayeux tapastry (I cant post links yet, but you can google it) in a circular shape around it. Is there any way to straighten a part of the border and make it circular?

 

[Tom Mann]

Use the filter / distort / polar / rectangular-to-polar tool.

There are lots of tutorials available for this tool. Also, to get the result to wrap correctly around the periphery of a circle ( ie, instead of filling in the circle), you'll need to add lots of blank space under your long thin starting image, ie, the tapestry.


T

 

[IamSam]

Hi GD,

Here is how you could straighten the border......

I found an image I wanted to use...



I removed the edges using the Rectangular Marquis Tool giving myself some room on the edges.....



I then moved one of the isolated borders into a new document. I used two Guide lines to help me with alignment. I used the Transform function (cmd/cntrl + T) in the Warp mode, and used the handles to straighten the border. (moved all upwards in this case)



Getting them in a circle without distortion is a whole other ballgame! (I'm working on that!)

Here's what happens when Polar Coordinates is used. (Sorry Tom, I thought it would work as well. Maybe I'm doing it wrong)

No space...


Lots of space! Still needs more to make it round! (Like Tom mentioned)

 

[SCTRWD]

To make a circle out of the ribbon use Transfrom->Warp->Arc with Bend 100% for upper and bottom parts. Something like this:

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[Tom Mann]

@SCRTWD - Nice!

@Sam - The gap you saw in the rectangular to polar coordinate transform occurred because you didn't have a square canvas and the ribbon didn't extend completely across the canvas. Here's are before and after screen shots (to show the PS guides and center of the canvas) with the ribbon going almost all the way across. I intentionally, didn't extend it completely across to explicitly show the size of the gap and show that it is now very small. If I had extended it, there would be no gap in the resulting circle.

T

 

[Gundammit]

Thanks it would have taken me forever to figure out, I will give it a try and report back.

 

[Gundammit]

I tried it out and it was fine until I tried to warp>arc it. I bent it 100% but it only forms a crescent shape.

 

[IamSam]

SCTRWD - This works well, but you get major distortion.



GD - You have to use two borders. You can just duplicate one, which leaves you with the same images for the bottom. Or you can arch another border different than the first, and then flip it over using EDIT > TRANSFORM > FLIP VERTICLE.

 

[SCTRWD]

SCTRWD - This works well, but you get major distortion.

IamSam, I suggested Transform just as an alternative.

Of course, Polar Coordinates is the first thing that comes to mind. But sometimes this filter gives pretty bad results, with blurring and pixelating

 

[Tom Mann]

SCTRWD is absolutely right abt the blurring & distortion with polar coordinate xform. I suggested it because of its simplicity & knowing that the final product sounded like it would be, at best, a thin line of very low resolution, a tattoo.

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