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Image Warp: flag waving
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Start by entering Image Warp mode, either by going
through Free Transform first or by choosing it from the Edit
menu. You’ll see this grid appear over your flag layer.
4
All the preset distortions have a handle to adjust them –
a tiny black square. For the Flag distortion, it’s on the top
edge. Drag it up to change the way the flag is waving.
7
We can adjust all the corner handles. Drag those on the
left inwards to make the flag follow the shape of the
holding tape; drag others to make the ripple less regular.
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MAGE WARP IS A SPECIAL MODE OF
Free Transform, and it’s entered by going
into Free Transform mode and pressing the
Image Warp button on the Options bar, over
on the right.
In Photoshop CS6 you can also enter
Image Warp mode using Edit > Free
Transform > Warp.
There are several preset modes within
Image Warp. The default is the versatile
Custom mode, which uses an array of
control handles to allow the user to distort
layers in different ways. But it’s easy to get
tangled up dragging the handles around;
often, the better approach is to start with
one of the preset distortions, and then
switch to Custom to finish off.
We’ll use Image Warp to make the flat
flag, above, look much more like it’s really
attached to that flagpole.
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Transformation and distortion
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Once you’ve
applied a
distortion it’s
‘burned into’ the
pixels, as it were:
you can’t go back
and adjust the
handles later.
Unless, that is, you
first convert your
layer to a Smart
Object (see page
400). This allows
you to manipulate
the handles as
much as you like:
when you enter
Image Warp at any
time in the future,
the handles will be
exactly where you
left them.
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This is the result: a down-and-up movement of the flag.
So far, it doesn’t look very realistic, but we can customize
it to make it suit our purpose.
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Now, two Bézier handles appear on each corner. We
can grab one – such as the top left handle – and drag it
down, to make the top of the flag have a smaller ripple to it.
9
Click OK or press E to apply the distortion. All that
remains to be done now is to add the ripple shading –
and you can see how to do that on page 324.
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From the Warp menu in the
Options Bar, click on None
and drag down to select Flag.
5
From the Warp menu in
the Options Bar, now select
Custom as the warp type.
8
We can also distort the flag by dragging on the four
internal points, where the grid lines intersect. Dragging
the lower right one gives the flag a bit of a bulge.
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