use-revolution Digest, Vol 6, Issue 108

[Thomas McGrath III]

Detailer will do the trick. It let's you paint on a 3D surface.

Photoshop allows for  curved text but not true 3d text that would 
unwrap. Detailer does.

Tom


On Mar 17, 2004, at 4:27 PM, Ken Norris wrote:

> on 3/17/04 7:59 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com at
> use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:03:39 -0500
>> From: Thomas McGrath III <3mcgrath at adelphia.net>
>> Subject: Re: OT 3D text wrapping
>> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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>> Ken,
>>
>> You mean besides Photoshop? Painter? Illustrator? Freehand?
> ------------
> Is there a plugin? I can't find anything in the manuals that show how 
> to do
> what I want:  Map text onto a surface (a 3D surface, not a 2D picture),
> adjust it until it appears straight on the curved surface, than unwrap 
> it
> for printing. This is physical. Real wine glasses, not pictures.
>
> We have to use the printed positive to expose photoresist stencils for
> etching via carbide blasting on wine glasses. IOW, it must read 
> straight on
> the product although the surface is curved.
>
> I'm not sure anyone is quite understanding this. There are sign 
> programs
> that can do it after a fashion, but they're hard to find apart from the
> copyrighted software that comes with vinyl sign-making systems.
>
> If there is a way to do it with PS, it doesn't appear in the manuals I 
> have.
> Sure, it shows how to make lettering appear to bend around a _photo_ or
> other _rendering_ of a curved surface, but that's 2D, not a real 3D 
> surface.
>
> TIA,
> Ken N.
>
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