Hi All!

I have a question about warping an image. I want to take a series of CD's and make them look like they are sort of tilted, and lying flatish.

What I am trying to do can be seen in the image I posted called Example.jpg... what I have right now is in the file called cds.jpg.

I can create the 3-d box, no problem, but how woudl I lay the cd's in a tilted fashion?

I tried all the warp tools, but they don't seem to work to get the job done.

Thanks for any help!

perspective tool, then warp.

Ant I tried perspective, and used Shift and dragged in the bottoms... but I made a royal mess of it.

How should I approach the image? Should I fan the Cd's out in a semi-circle first also?

And should I group this into a smart object first?

Sorry for all the questions!

Thanks so much!

This was done with the vanishing point filter in photoshop.

no shift. grab the top first and pull it in and then grab the bottom and pull that in, a lot. Then you can warp it as you please, if need be.

Hi rnBluvva

This is what I get and this is the way:

First: Perspective the down side of the picture (contract).
second: Filter, distort, lens correctión and apply a little bit more perspective.
Third: free transform, scale, moving the upside center square down, until you like de result.
Fourth: Warp. Now you have to play until you get yor result.

I hope it works for you.

Hi Natalie, its nice to see you back here after so long.
Before you apply the warp, you can try Filter > Distort > Lens Correction to rotate the object vertically or horizontally.
Regards, Murray

Select a CD, and copy it to a new layer. Enter free transform mode. Press ctrl-alt-shift, and drag one of the top corners towards the other top corner. Pull the top down and repeat the previous step. The CD will appear to be laying down. Add a drop shadow, and position them so they appear to be fanned out, however you want them.

If it is for the web I would use flash, its easy to manipulate.
Otherwise the skew & rotate tools work OK.

Hi

Id go for the dave cox version!
no need to look any further.

BR Orisinal