convert round elements to linear ones

[seson]

Hi,

Suppose you had a ring and taken a photograph from an angle of 45 degrees. Then you'd have an O, which is somehow flattened.

I'd like to create a frontal view of that ring as if I had taken the photo directly from the front, i.e. just a rounded bar would be visible from this point of view.

I tried a couple of things like warp, but that distorted my image. One promising approach seemed the path tool, but I wasn't able to apply the contents of the image to the path area and then move the points in order to have photoshop re-calculate the contents.

Do you have an idea?

Sebastian

[tombothetominator]

the problem that you are going to run into is that you are going to have to create (by hand) the part of the ring that the image didn't capture.

Now, you may be able to get a decent manip from the 45 degree angle picture you have, but it will really hard to make it look really realistic.

JUST my $.02

[Isick]

What I would do is select only the face of the ring and place it into a new layer. By face I mean that side that you would be visible had you taken the picture correctly. Then, I would simply use the distort command (image > Transform > Distort) and stretch it to fit.

If that doesn't work then I am not understanding the problem correctly. Pictures?

[seson]

Hi,

this is the ring I extracted from a photograph. The blurry part on the right side are there, because I erased something attached to it.



What I want to do now is to have a sort of bar, i.e. a ring from the front so that there is nothing behind visible.

Seb

[seson]

luckily i got this thing solved.

[tombothetominator]

Cool. I'd be interested to see results, and some basic info on how you did it.

[seson]

Well, I just played around a little with photoshop's layer features on a rectangular shape with round corners. It looked pretty much like a 3d object though too perfect and too unreal to fit into that image, but the final image is only about 100px x 50px in resolution, so you can't tell.

Seb