GIMP Tutorial - wrap or warp an image around a can
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- How to use GIMP to wrap an image around a 3 dimensional can using the Curve Bend filter.
This video is really old now (2011) and some features in newer versions of GIMP may be located in different places.
**Please note that this video used to have annotations with full instructions until RUclips removed them all**. If you have any complaints about this, then please complain to RUclips. Thanks.
How to Create and Wrap a Text Box,
& an image Around a Cylinder
• Open an image file of a cylinder as Layers. (Cylinder)
• Create a new layer and add it to the image.
• Select the rectangle shape and lay it out over the entire face of the cylinder.
• Click Edit/Fill with BG Color on the Menu Bar.
• Turn visibilty off for the cylinder.
• Click Select/None on the Menu Bar.
• Pick the Text Tool.
• Layout the text box onto the rectangle created earlier. (Text Box)
• Type your text into the text editor.
• Format the text using the text dock.
• Locate and Open an image file. (Image)
• Copy the image to the clipboard.
• Click Layer/New Layer. Create a new Layer and add it to the image.
• Pick the Crosshair Selection tool and position the new image.
• Pick the Scale tool and resize the image. Reposition as necessary.
• Click Layer/New From Visible (Text and Image)
• Turn off visibility of all elements except for the original cylinder
and the New Layer with the Text and Image.
• Reduce Text & Image Layer Opacity from 100% to
about 57%.
• Right-click the Text & Image Layer and Select Alpha to Selection.
• Click Filters/Distort/Curve Bend on the Menu Bar.
• Tick Automatic Preview. Position the Curve Bend Dialog alongside
the cylinder image so the line in the center of the graph is nearest
the cylinder top edge. Ensure the Upper radio button is selected.
• Tick some points on the line then click and drag to curve the line
and match it to the top curve of the cylinder.
• Select the Lower radio button and repeat the steps above to make
the line match the bottom curve of the cylinder.
• When satisfied Click OK and wait for the transformation.
• Click Layer/New From Visible (Curved Text & Image)
• Turn off the visibility of the un-curved image and text layer.
• Within the Layers Dock change the Mode from Normal to Multiply.
• Pick the Perspective tool then click on the image. Use the corner
handles to position the curved image exactly as desired.
Click Transform when satisfied.
Thanks for that Richard. That was very kind of you to go to so much trouble. I've pinned your comment so others can find it easily.
thanks for the instructions.
Nothing's like a person with an eye for detail! [Coupled with an ear for brainy music!] Exellent! ;-)
Great job I didn't know you could do this with gimp I only use it for simple things I'm not a professional. Thank you for this tutorial
Thank you SO much for this tutorial. I tried a few other methods with zero success.
If anyone is wondering where this feature is located now (Version 2.10.12 at the time of my message), it's under Filters ==> Distorts ==> Curve Bend.
Cheers!
This video has helped me SO many times. I have a thing for creating weird Ramen cup art, and this has helped me come up with some interesting stuff for the labels. Thanks bunches!
What you did in 6 minutes I will now try to reproduce in less than 6 days :)
Thank you very much. I have used nothing more complicated than the editing tools in Photobucket, this is my first venture into more complex tools. Your video has helped me a great deal, thanks again.
Thx for sharing! Five years and this is useful...
Really beautiful job. Not quite sure why we need so many layers, but I'm new to GIMP.
This video used to have annotations with full instructions. Unfortunately RUclips deleted all the annotations which I spent a considerable amount of time creating to help users understand this tutorial. If you have any complaints then please complain to RUclips, not me. This is a really old video (2011) and I have no plans to update it or to fix what RUclips has broken. Thanks.
It's still useful, thank you.
I just Spent an hour transcribing this video for us all. it still riegns as the best on the web.
How to Create and Wrap a Text Box,
& an image Around a Cylinder
• Open an image file of a cylinder as Layers. (Cylinder)
• Create a new layer and add it to the image.
• Select the rectangle shape and lay it out over the entire face of the cylinder.
• Click Edit/Fill with BG Color on the Menu Bar.
• Turn visibilty off for the cylinder.
• Click Select/None on the Menu Bar.
• Pick the Text Tool.
• Layout the text box onto the rectangle created earlier. (Text Box)
• Type your text into the text editor.
• Format the text using the text dock.
• Locate and Open an image file. (Image)
• Copy the image to the clipboard.
• Click Layer/New Layer. Create a new Layer and add it to the image.
• Pick the Crosshair Selection tool and position the new image.
• Pick the Scale tool and resize the image. Reposition as necessary.
• Click Layer/New From Visible (Text and Image)
• Turn off visibility of all elements except for the original cylinder
and the New Layer with the Text and Image.
• Reduce Text & Image Layer Opacity from 100% to
about 57%.
• Right-click the Text & Image Layer and Select Alpha to Selection.
• Click Filters/Distort/Curve Bend on the Menu Bar.
• Tick Automatic Preview. Position the Curve Bend Dialog alongside
the cylinder image so the line in the center of the graph is nearest
the cylinder top edge. Ensure the Upper radio button is selected.
• Tick some points on the line then click and drag to curve the line
and match it to the top curve of the cylinder.
• Select the Lower radio button and repeat the steps above to make
the line match the bottom curve of the cylinder.
• When satisfied Click OK and wait for the transformation.
• Click Layer/New From Visible (Curved Text & Image)
• Turn off the visibility of the un-curved image and text layer.
• Within the Layers Dock change the Mode from Normal to Multiply.
• Pick the Perspective tool then click on the image. Use the corner
handles to position the curved image exactly as desired.
Click Transform when satisfied.
Very helpful. I've been trying for days to do this, with nothing but frustration to show for it. Thanks!
I am just so impressed with your knowledge.....and I also have learned so much (only after a thousand times) from watching your tutorials....Thank you for doing the tutorials.
Thanks so much for the tutorial. I did my own pop can design based on your teachings and my friends loved it.
holly cow, I "can" do this now...Thanks. Your the man. PLEASE do not stop or delete any of the tutorials. I need you for future projects. .Soo luvin it( with all the other tutorials I was frustrated)
Thank you from the other side of the world.
Just what I've been looking for! Serious bang for the 6.5 min investment
at least this video show some features of Gimp that is useful.
Excellent! has helped me to do my project, thanks very much
Still valid in 2023, thank you!!!
I like that transformation.
Excellent. Looked everywhere for a photoshop tutorial of a mockup and cannot find one
Many thanx for this tutorial! And an extra thank you for the music!
HANDS DOWN THE BEST TUTE for this action that I've seen yet. My 'fear' of attempting this is now GONE. Hopefully it'll be as Easy as you make it look. THANK YOU!! :) (and yes, the music selection is AWESOME. :) )
Cool thanks i have played with a few of them but its good to know exactly what they are doing to the image. Love your work.
good job ....easy to understand ....tnx
Thankyou that will help for sure with what i want to do. Explanation on some of the steps would help though. Like why you selected multiply.
Well done! You are the reason for the internet!
thanks..!! Needed to find Distort/Curve..!!
This was big help for a school project. Thank you!
Brilliant, just what I needed, will send you my finished image.
Thank you! This was exactly what I was trying to do (except with an oil can). Cheers
I learned many things from this video, thanks.
Great video on how to use curve bend. One question though: To make it even more realistic, we would also need to concenrate pixels more at the edges than in the middle. As images go around a corner, they compress. Think about when you watch a TV at a steep angle, you're seeing the whole picture but in a narrower form factor. How do we create this effect in GIMP?
Very nice...I liked the background music too.
Well done. Great work! Thanks for sharing.
You are my personal hero! Thanks!
who would give this a thumbs down??
That was a very nice show!
Excellent, you rock. This is exactly what i was looking for.
Absolutely amazing! Great music too.
You could use iWarp for lots of different things, basically it's a distortion tool similar to Liquify in Photoshop. Try it and see for yourself
Billy - Good job sir - excellent
superb excellent !! It will be really helpful if u can share your thought process while doing it.....
Thank you so much! This is just what I was looking for.
*Wow*! That was an amazing tutorial! Thank you so much for taking the time to do and load this up for us ;-)
Very good! I like it.
very impressive.. thanks for the tutorial!!
Lovely video, learned a lot, thanks
Amazing! Thank you so much. You are a life saver.
Great Tutorial, well done!
You are welcome
Thank you so much for this tutorial. This is exactly what I was searching for. Nice choice of music bdw. For once it DOES fit the video :)
Brilliant tutorial,I subscribed.
This is a great tutorial. Thank you.
mucho bueno y excelente este es uno de mis favoritos.
Muchas gracias por compartir tus conocimientos ;)
Чувак! Ты гений!
Thanks, I needed this.
Excellent tutorial! Thank you.
Mate you are a godsend thank you
Very nice, but wow! I won't be doing that anytime soon! Thanks
Hey Gary, it's not so difficult. Go on, give it a go. You can press the pause button if you can't keep up. Don't forget to switch on your youtube annotations for the full text instructions. I did it all in about six and half minutes, so it can't be that hard.
Nice tutorial!
I've learned so much watching your videos.
I took a picture of a label I like and wanted to print it out but it's on a curved surface and I can't figure how to get the curve out of the label now to make it flat. Could you possibly make a video on how to solve this problem? thank you for sharing your knowledge.
That could be kinda tricky. The problem is if it's a photo and you try to use filters or tools to distort the image outwards, then that will make it blurry/fuzzy where you distort it. And you can't fix blurriness in any software unfortunately.
As I have discovered... I tried doing the can wrap in reverse but could not straighten the middle. I tried lens filter but only effects the ends as well. I will perceiver to find a solution. Thanks for the input
nice tutorial. thanks :)
Thank you sooooooooooooo much for this video
Thankyou! Very cool.
Excellent work! Tnx for tutorial.
Thank you!! Great tutorial :D
Wow! Go OPEN SOURCE S/W.!
Very nice video!
Thank you for that! I will use it!!!
Thanks that was exactly what i wa looking for ;)
Hello!
I have a problem and I hope you can help me. I painted a acrylic painting on a 50x70cm canvas. I photographed the canvas during the process.
First I want to warp the photograps of the paintings in Gimp so that the canvas becomes a perfect rectangle. As we know, when we photograph a canvas, the angle is never perfect. So I want to warp the canvas in the photography to a perfect rectangle. I know the warp function in gimp, but I dont know how to warp it so that it becomes a perfect rectangle.
Secondly, when like 4 photographs of the canvas have been warped, I want to cut a few milimeters of the edges off the canvas, so that the edges become very clean looking. But I want to cut in the exact same spot on the canvas on every photography. Then I want to scale it to the exact same size, so that I have 4 photographs of the canvas of the exact same size. So that every spot is exactly where it is on the other photography. Do you know what I mean?
My plan is to make a animation in blender. I want to cut out several parts of the photographs to get to work them togeter. Thats why Im very concerned about the size, so that everything will be spot on and nothing wont be off later in the process.
I hope I explained my problem so that you could understand what I mean. If you know how to approach this, please let me know. Unfortunately I didnt find anything on youtube that could help me.
Thanks
Assuming every photo is taken from the exact same angle, and the painting is static in each shot with absolutely no movement, then you could put the images in separate layers inside a group, select the group in the layers panel, and use the Unified Transform tool (Shift+T) to distort the image to straighten it. This will distort all the images in the group in one go. Here's a rough screenshot demonstrating the method. You can drop some guides to help you get it straight. imgur.com/kec5fz7 - finally use the crop tool (Shift+C) to crop it. If on the other hand the photos are all slightly different, this won't work, and you'd need to distort each one individually to get them to line up exactly - not an easy task TBH.
Excellent - thanks heaps!
I tried ur method n loved the fact that it works so well. I hv an issue though I created the curve on the curve blend tool but I was not happy wit the result so I opened the tool again n dis time it messed my entire design.. Is there a step I am missing?
Probably better to undo what you did before you try again. This edit is destructive - it's not like some mesh you can just re-adjust after you have done it.
yes I realized that.. I reworked on the project and turned out nice.. your tutorial helped a lot.. Thanks a lot
i did it the way u did the can,and it worked but the outline of the ball its too thick
you are a lifesaver!!!
Great tutorial! If I may ask, what music was that? It was great!!
Can you do a lesson on the custom chip bag?
Thanks for this video
ok first of all congrats for the music. Although i would like you to talk so you can explain more what are you doing - yes is very explicable with the annotations - congrats for the nice and clean video you made , but i still have a question. If i want to change something from the label, like the cherries or the name but don't go all the way from the top on the effects , can i do it and if yes how? thanks again for sharing knowledge !
Sorry, when I made this tutorial I didn't have a decent microphone, but some of my latest tutorials have voice. You can use any images or text you want - place them in any position you want on the label. This is only an example of what's possible.
Thank you!! With this wrap option/motion can you add an image of a label instead of the logo you created?! What step should we take to at the image and wrap it, would it be the same steps?
Thank you for your time!!
Yes, you could wrap any image in a similar way with the same steps.
Good job!
Hi Billy, Do you know if there is anyway to wrap the around the can so that it is curving around the back, i.e. half the D is not visible.
+mcsean2163 Just erase the part which is hidden
Very clever.
Thank you!
So, I'm trying to wrap text into a 3-D ring shape, that is, as if it were a decal wrapped around a clear bottle. It would have perspective and portions of the text might be running backwards. It seems like Curve Bend is more 2-D oriented (and you're luckily able to reuse it here for 3-D purposes); I'd need to be able to "unlock" the end points of the Curve Bend curve to get it to work.
I feel like I'm beyond Curve Bend and should be looking in a different area. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Would I be better off using, e.g., Blender for this?
***** Yes definitely. GIMP is not a 3D application. Blender is, and it's free and Open Source same as GIMP. Mind you, it's complex, but there good tutorials on youtube if you search
Billy Kerr I appreciate the confirmation. I felt like you were approaching the edges of what GIMP was intended for in this video.
Yeah, I've played with Blender enough to know that it is... well, "complex" seems overly charitable. "Laughably and needlessly abstruse" seems closer, but you get what you pay for. ;-) I just need to hold back the cursing and play along until their very weird way of doing things "clicks". (I had (and still have) the same experience with GIMP.)
***** no actually, that is par for the course with 3D animation and modelling applications, commercial software like Maya and Cinema 4D are as bad if not worse - they are all horrendously complex. Take GIMP, and multiply it's complexity by 3 (one for each dimension)!!!
Billy Kerr it seems like it all depends on whether the creators think like you do. I remember Alias|Wavefront *never* seemed to do what I wanted, but 3DS MAX was wonderful after a very short breaking-in period. For others, it might be opposite. :-)
Excellent!
I did the label the extreme way, I named it POW! soda, add some splatters, I used SF Atarian System for the brand name
where did you get that labelless can?
Don't ask me things like that. I found it somewhere LOL;)
The only one I found costs $33.00!
Google "labelless can" then click images. Boom. You have pictures of LABELLESS CANS!! 😱 Go figure.
BTW, it doesn't work on the newest version of GIMP. 😢
Never mind, I got it.
I wish I were like you.
Good job 👌 👌 👏 👏 👏
What about going in reverse? That is, taking the label in an image of a can and straightening it out into a rectangle again?
It wouldn't work - you'd stretch the pixels, and the result wouldn't be great. In raster images you can shrink stuff down, but if you enlarge or stretch, then the quality degrades severely.
there is no curve bend option in my distort mode. Could you help me please
If you have GIMP 2.8.10 it's at Filters > Distorts > Curve Bend - if you don't have the latest GIMP, then get it from here www.gimp.org
Very Good!!!!!!
Quite annoying that you cannot see the background in the preview.
excellent
Thanks!
amazing
Can you put the soda can image in the description?
Nope - it's not my image. You can google "blank metal can" to find something similar
awesome )) i want to have a taste
Lol... thirsty?😁
The lore imoportant 3:20
WOW! Great!