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Warp Factor 9!

Monday, September 17th, 2007 – running time 08:21
Photoshop's Warp command transforms layers into a predefined shape. Bert Monroy used it on the glasses in Lunch in Tiberon, here he types the word "Digg" and demonstrates many of the effects you can create with it.

This episode of PixelPerfect is all about the warp command in Photoshop, which "makes it easy to bend images, shapes, or type into irregular and 3D shapes"

What do you use it for?

Bert Monroy used the Warp command on the drinking glasses i n Lunch in Tiburon so the tablecloth seen through the glass would look reali stic.

Bert demonstrates basic effects you can create with the Warp command by typing i n the word "Digg," rasterizing the type, then applying the warp tool to it. Thes e basic building blocks will help you understand the Warp command and start towa rds sophisticated uses like those glasses in Lunch in Tiburon.

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Highlights
Ian Stewart ( 6:28, 6:28 ) tablecloth ( 2:18, 2:35, 2:18, 2:35 ) outer edges ( 3:20, 3:20 ) Warp ( 2:26, 4:42, 2:26, 4:42 ) Ian Stewart ( 6:28, 6:28 ) tablecloth ( 2:18, 2:35, 2:18, 2:35 ) outer edges ( 3:20, 3:20 ) Warp ( 2:26, 4:42, 2:26, 4:42 )

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" Hi and welcome to another episode of pixel perfect Ebert on over ride shows you vote up stuff so. Leo discuss a few things that would talk about the war command. I've discussed is a few times in fact where back in episode number three. I used to work I used to work to distort the little pattern to make it followed shape -- remember don't go watch it again. I assure -- few features about war today which will make it easier for you to understand. Following -- that might sponsors godaddy.com. Where you get 96 dollars and fully extras with your domain name from godaddy.com. He's -- includes free hosting with -- web site builder. Free blog. Complete email and a lot more. Plus if you enter the -- pixel which is seen ray it's game when you check out. With the dot com name. It'll be just six dollars and 95 cents a year. Some restrictions apply the idea yeah out of so go check that out godaddy.com. And start setting up your pupil website today. Fed up and I said I want to talk about. The war to. On the screen. We have a Clinton Deborah. -- showed some stuff meant last week we talked about layer styles and quite a few weeks ago I did two episodes on this. But I want to talk about the war because I used it extensively in the creation of this piece. I zoom into areas. Like guy right here. If there and -- back there. Looking through any edges of the plasma bubbles it gets old distorted. Moving along this thing you'll see that there are many areas where the tablecloth has been distorted in many bizarre way it's. All through here all these distortions. They were all done with the warp tool. Itself. -- here and look at that. Here we have that they go to school section of that tablecloth. The go ahead and increased my yeah. Canvas size isn't what does have a nice little editor request. That's going here and let's make this. Ten inch is by eight inches. Okay there we have the thanks of space now. If you see -- at that table cloth itself is in a layer by itself this transparency. So want to go in there and wore this. I come up to edit transform. And is war new feature that came on -- line and when I click on it. In residence at a mash and that -- is not the entire file only the active pixels of that particular player. -- as to shape right there there is where than he mentions it at the outer edges of my particular -- it. -- would be a square of this with a circle he was still have discredit you can go around and distort things now. They are these round dots here and these little square. At the corners. That blue squares that -- at the corners are. Kind of like anchor points that you would find in the pen tool. And the circle art just like handles doing fine in the pencil and I go in here and grab a little circle you see that it separates. From the line and it becomes. A little -- going to comply with. So this is the kind of stuff that I was doing. To distort. My -- off you see there's all kinds of stuff that you can do this all kinds of which dates. -- it to turn it happens. Okay turn this off and LL do now and just take a little. Type and that's just a the IGG. You know big. And that's that I. All and we'll make it bigger as soon make it 200 points. -- Picked the wrong place. Up here as -- got taken to. Point there you -- nice thing. I'm gonna go ahead and though it will be able to warp type I'm gonna go ahead and two is best to rise to as -- invest rise -- it is becomes pixels. This may relieve myself. Now. It's in a separate layer. So I can go in there and anything I do that mrs. scaled going to automatically conform to the size of that mayor's seat is going right in there are gonna scale it. Whenever I want to it. And likewise. The war so I click on transform. -- again there's my idea mash that's fitting the actual shape of the -- of pixels. Now like before I grab these channels and -- can move around to do things to it. This is open these guys all up like that."

" Now I can actually grab the plot itself -- Spock got nine blocks here I can actually grab the block like this little block. And move that and we the actual block itself and you can see the effect that that's having on the war affects for my -- word they. I can grab. Actual points like here. It's the line I grabbed that. And tighten that up in this one down and tighten this up and grabbing the actual little lines themselves here and we had this line. It drag down this on dragon up and you can see them increasing the space between those two. Like so. I can -- this line and bring an end. I'm doing some really bizarre distortions. I grab this and bring an end when this lying down. And again it's still gripped the block. The not limited to just the points and the little handles that are. There you can actually grab the lines themselves this one here got pulled way out of whack because it's used in a new curve thank Ian Stewart who was having. And then crisis can wrap around which is bizarre. The -- it just falls right within the area but there's no limit to how you can what these things. Maybe it anchor points themselves. Grabbing the handles but he anchor points grabbing the actual lines where they intersect. And grabbing the blocks themselves right there. So all these things."

" Can be selected and move they don't actually have these alleged is that the grabbed because -- to go into Internet tool and you. Bring your cursor you notice it's automatically got the arrow is sincere in that function anything you do is gonna happen that function so you say do it. -- entity to be -- well then. Commit this to -- and then it's it's done otherwise it's just going there and claim this as much as you want. There's no limit to how you work things work things around -- and dual kinda weird stuff to it. Since question of what you want to set up a template for yourself I once that is stored and so on and easily distorted. Colon and play with that tool it's fun. I hope to see a lot of -- samples come my way and it. Look what I do of the what tool policy some really weird stuff suddenly things semi request of things like want to -- and -- at revision3.com. If you got two questions of something you'd like to see -- I don't want to show if not outright answered right here in your email. Hope united something from this remember to play as we've learned -- him play don't think it in his -- and give -- this plane -- it's fun. See you next week."

" It's."

" Hi and welcome to another episode of pixel perfect Ebert on over ride shows you vote up stuff so. Leo discuss a few things that would talk about the war command. I've discussed is a few times in fact where back in episode number three. I used to work I used to work to distort the little pattern to make it followed shape -- remember don't go watch it again. I assure -- few features about war today which will make it easier for you to understand. Following -- that might sponsors godaddy.com. Where you get 96 dollars and fully extras with your domain name from godaddy.com. He's -- includes free hosting with -- web site builder. Free blog. Complete email and a lot more. Plus if you enter the -- pixel which is seen ray it's game when you check out. With the dot com name. It'll be just six dollars and 95 cents a year. Some restrictions apply the idea yeah out of so go check that out godaddy.com. And start setting up your pupil website today. Fed up and I said I want to talk about. The war to. On the screen. We have a Clinton Deborah. -- showed some stuff meant last week we talked about layer styles and quite a few weeks ago I did two episodes on this. But I want to talk about the war because I used it extensively in the creation of this piece. I zoom into areas. Like guy right here. If there and -- back there. Looking through any edges of the plasma bubbles it gets old distorted. Moving along this thing you'll see that there are many areas where the tablecloth has been distorted in many bizarre way it's. All through here all these distortions. They were all done with the warp tool. Itself. -- here and look at that. Here we have that they go to school section of that tablecloth. The go ahead and increased my yeah. Canvas size isn't what does have a nice little editor request. That's going here and let's make this. Ten inch is by eight inches. Okay there we have the thanks of space now. If you see -- at that table cloth itself is in a layer by itself this transparency. So want to go in there and wore this. I come up to edit transform. And is war new feature that came on -- line and when I click on it. In residence at a mash and that -- is not the entire file only the active pixels of that particular player. -- as to shape right there there is where than he mentions it at the outer edges of my particular -- it. -- would be a square of this with a circle he was still have discredit you can go around and distort things now. They are these round dots here and these little square. At the corners. That blue squares that -- at the corners are. Kind of like anchor points that you would find in the pen tool. And the circle art just like handles doing fine in the pencil and I go in here and grab a little circle you see that it separates. From the line and it becomes. A little -- going to comply with. So this is the kind of stuff that I was doing. To distort. My -- off you see there's all kinds of stuff that you can do this all kinds of which dates. -- it to turn it happens. Okay turn this off and LL do now and just take a little. Type and that's just a the IGG. You know big. And that's that I. All and we'll make it bigger as soon make it 200 points. -- Picked the wrong place. Up here as -- got taken to. Point there you -- nice thing. I'm gonna go ahead and though it will be able to warp type I'm gonna go ahead and two is best to rise to as -- invest rise -- it is becomes pixels. This may relieve myself. Now. It's in a separate layer. So I can go in there and anything I do that mrs. scaled going to automatically conform to the size of that mayor's seat is going right in there are gonna scale it. Whenever I want to it. And likewise. The war so I click on transform. -- again there's my idea mash that's fitting the actual shape of the -- of pixels. Now like before I grab these channels and -- can move around to do things to it. This is open these guys all up like that."

" Now I can actually grab the plot itself -- Spock got nine blocks here I can actually grab the block like this little block. And move that and we the actual block itself and you can see the effect that that's having on the war affects for my -- word they. I can grab. Actual points like here. It's the line I grabbed that. And tighten that up in this one down and tighten this up and grabbing the actual little lines themselves here and we had this line. It drag down this on dragon up and you can see them increasing the space between those two. Like so. I can -- this line and bring an end. I'm doing some really bizarre distortions. I grab this and bring an end when this lying down. And again it's still gripped the block. The not limited to just the points and the little handles that are. There you can actually grab the lines themselves this one here got pulled way out of whack because it's used in a new curve thank Ian Stewart who was having. And then crisis can wrap around which is bizarre. The -- it just falls right within the area but there's no limit to how you can what these things. Maybe it anchor points themselves. Grabbing the handles but he anchor points grabbing the actual lines where they intersect. And grabbing the blocks themselves right there. So all these things."

" Can be selected and move they don't actually have these alleged is that the grabbed because -- to go into Internet tool and you. Bring your cursor you notice it's automatically got the arrow is sincere in that function anything you do is gonna happen that function so you say do it. -- entity to be -- well then. Commit this to -- and then it's it's done otherwise it's just going there and claim this as much as you want. There's no limit to how you work things work things around -- and dual kinda weird stuff to it. Since question of what you want to set up a template for yourself I once that is stored and so on and easily distorted. Colon and play with that tool it's fun. I hope to see a lot of -- samples come my way and it. Look what I do of the what tool policy some really weird stuff suddenly things semi request of things like want to -- and -- at revision3.com. If you got two questions of something you'd like to see -- I don't want to show if not outright answered right here in your email. Hope united something from this remember to play as we've learned -- him play don't think it in his -- and give -- this plane -- it's fun. See you next week."