Distorting or skewing graphics

[graywoulf]

Here's the deal. I have to design some graphics for a car hood so I took a digital picture of the hood. But not being able to take a square on, top down picture I do the best I can which still ends up being a photo taken from an angle. Now I have imported my .jpg picture into Flexi and I need to distort the picture to have a better view to work with as well as being able to resize the angles to near their proper dimensions. How can I distort the imported .jpg picture to suit my needs and to have a better scaled pic to work with?

Thanks for any help on this!

 

[threeputt]

Seems to me you'd be better off taking some careful measurements at several points and creating a "shape" that resembles the hood.

I imagine that most hoods are trapezoidal in shape. Basically a square that's squashed in at the top. Maybe yours is more complex, but you can create a shape that looks like that, can't you?

If you'd like, send me an idea of what you're trying to do. Pm me for my email address.

 

[Mike Paul]

A simple vector outline shape would be best.

 

[thewood]

Flexi does not have bitmap transform features like Photoshop does.

 

[pure_media]

Yeah Flexi doesn't have that ability with bitmap, you will have to go into photoshop under edit - transform - distort. tweak it till proper alignment.

 

[graywoulf]

Well I was hoping for a way to do this in Flexi but I'll take the photo into Photoshop and correct the angles. I wish we had the software with all of the vehicle line drawings and such but that is a bit expensive. Thanks for everybody's time and input that responded.