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Image designed to wrap around a cup


mikecox

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I have been asked to provide images, formatted as jpg or png, that will be applied to cups. I'd like the image to have a drop shadow but with a transparent background can I do that with a png file?

I'm also concerned that a flat image would look unnatural stuck on a round surface. How would I create an image that would appear to wrap and would I need the circumference of the cup to create the wrap effect?
 

mikecox

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you can open your png , and make it into a 3D cilinder
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ggdf3nsua8kp1fy/png on a cup.mp4?dl=0

or

you can open this psd and change the image
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e8ayril84h47bv1/Cup.psd?dl=0


Thanks for this response but I was hoping for a reference, like an online tutorial or an article in PC Magazine; I have back issues but have no idea how to search them as a group, I need something that would walk me through the steps. I need to know how to take a flat image and change it into one that curves, that I can send to the vendor, who can apply it to a cup; a cup whose dimensions I, at this point, have no idea of.

Is it possible to do that, not knowing anything about the cup's circumference?
 
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colleague

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it's the vendor that can give you the dimensions for the image
 
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Eggy

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No need to give him your picture dimensions.
As he's printing those images on cups, T-shirts ect... he has his own graphic program (probably PS) to make any image fit on the product.
 

mikecox

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Good point. Thanks
 

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