I am with dog rescue and I just purchased some latte mugs to put designs on for Christmas. Because of the shape of the mugs a simple square design, which is what I'm working with, won't work. The design I have is a bitmap and I need to change the shape so it fits in the template of the latte mug. I can't seem to get the shape tool to help me with this. I need to get this figured out so we can sell these for Christmas and I'm running out of time. I have tried to figure it out myself but to no avail. (Corel can't help me due to the version I am using and I can't afford to upgrade but could download the trial version if that would help) I just don't know if I can reshape a jpeg or bmp in either version or how to make this work. Hellllppppp
For images, the best I could come up with is using the mesh warp effect in photopaint. It requires a lot of tweaking to get right, but it's doable. I placed the image I wanted to warp on a larger image so that the distortions around the edges wouldn't be visible in the final design
Hendrik Wagenaar said: For images, the best I could come up with is using the mesh warp effect in photopaint. It requires a lot of tweaking to get right, but it's doable. I placed the image I wanted to warp on a larger image so that the distortions around the edges wouldn't be visible in the final design
I tried the Mesh Warp, but it is much too difficult to control the shape. Now...if we could select and move a column or row at angles that would be something!
I tried used Effects>Distort>Shear in Photo-Paint. The nice thing about the Shear is that you can see it work live.
First, I copied a funnel-shaped template (just an outline, no fill) from CorelDRAW and pasted it over my brick image in Photo-Paint. Then I used Effects>Distort>Shear. I moved the left/right side points all the way down to the bottom of the grid, and then moved the center up until the curve matched my template. Bring the resulting image back into CorelDRAW and PowerClip it into your mug template.
The bricks made it easier to see how the image was being distorted, but I'm not sure how that would work on a photo of a dog!
Doing this on a photo reminds of correcting barrel distortion on a photo -- only you are doing it in reverse and only vertically!
NOTE: I tried to save my funnel-shaped shear so I could try it on another image -- PP crashed when I tired to type in a name!
pranderson said:I tried used Effects>Distort>Shear in Photo-Paint. The nice thing about the Shear is that you can see it work live.
Very good idea Patti. The vertical lines of the brick pattern don't align with the green cup lines, which would be very visible near the seam. Building on your idea, I applied the perspective effect after the shear which comes quite close to the cup pattern. There's a bit of a bulge near the middle, but for a picture of a dog, you wouldn't notice it.