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How to wrap a linear picture into a circle? (not a sphere.. just a circle like typing on a path)

I have like.. 10 thumbnails lined up next to eachother to make an image say.. 100px high and 900px wide...

I wanted to know if theres an easy way to wrap that into a circle...

Kinda like how you can make a circle path and type on it (not a sphere).

I just want the end ofthe image to match up with the beginning, and be round because its being printed on a circle template..



Thanks!
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Two questions.

1) Do you want the images to remain upright, or do you want them to rotate, so that the ones around the six o'clock position will be upside down?
2) Do you have a program called Adobe Illutsrator?

I assume you want them to remain upright? You could either make the entire thing in Illustrator, then import back to Photoshop; or you could make a special guideline template in Illutsrator, which you would then paste into Photoshop as a path.

I suggest the second method, steps as follows:

1) Drawing  vertical line in Illustrator. Make sure it is selected with the black selection tool.

2) Double click on the rotate tool and type in a value of 36 degrees, and press COPY.

3) Press CTRL + D a three  times, so that step (2)  to is repeated. You should end up with 5 lines crossing in the centre to form a cart wheel

4) Select the "cartwheel" and copy it to the clipboard

IN PHOTOSHOP

1) Make a document that measures about 1200 x 1200

2) Paste your thumbnail image in

3) Paste your Illustrator graphic in AS A PATH into Photoshop. (Scale as necessary)

4) Select a thumbnail by some method (rectangular marquee will do), and using the move tool in Photoshop, drag the thumbnails so that its center lies at the end of one of the spokes of the cartwheel.

5) Repeat Step (4) until complete


If you want the thumbnails to rotate, then do everything in Illustrator. Let me and I can post you the steps for that too.



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Its going to rotate around perfectly...

So like.. If its 900px wide.. Some of the pictures at the 6:00 position are going to be upside-down.. whereas the pictures at 12:00 will be rightside up.. the pictures at 9 and 3 will be sideways with the bottoms facing inward.

Does that make sense?

Its like if you had it printed out, and grabbed the two ends and made them touch... (which inevitably will make the top of the images wider than the bottoms, into a trapezoid style shape )


yes?
Yes I do have illustrator
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Lol....we can share the points...you've put much more time into your explanaion...and added a bit too....thanks!
Thnx for the points...may be u can let us know how it worked out?
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D_Brugge: Drag an image and position it under your wedge. Select the image and the wedge and make it a clipping path (Ctrl + 7) Presto! You have a wedge shaped image. (assuming that you wanted to crop the image instead of distorting it to fit the wedge) Now, with your new image cropped, use your rotation tool and click where your straight lines intersect and type 36 degrees. This moves the image to the first spot on your circle.

Hi, my question is, what if I want to distort the image to fit the wedge? Please help, thanks in advance!