loopylupine

Thanks Sarkut, I will give that one a try.

Does anyone know a distortion technique that I am overlooking that would accomplish this in one or two repeatable steps? Thanks!

Thanks Sarkut. Yes, that may be a solution to this one, but If I get a design without a break in it like that... well, there must be a way...

Well, I thought I had this licked, but now I am trying to do a full bleed print, and am having trouble. I begin with rectangular art. I first apply perspective to turn the rectangle into a trapezoid. Then I use tube oblique to get the curvature. But this issue is, that the shape I am trying to fit the image to is a conical section, not a cylindrical section, so the radius of the bottom arc of the section is different (smaller) than the radius of the upper arc. So, when I apply tube oblique to match the bottom curvature, the top of the image is curved too much, and does not follow the outline evenly at the top. For my practical purpose, this means that the print will be uneven on the printed cup. See image, the design at the top curves down from the top at each end. If you have any ideas, please, I could use the help of an experienced shape shifter! Can shape 3D be set up to imitate a conical section?

Yellowman: Thanks! This is with perspective, then tube oblique. A quick try, but the results look good. Basically the combination creates a "conical section oblique" which is I guess what I am after. Notice the lettering now is more perpendicular to the bottom curved line of the cup wall. I appreciate the help on this forum. BTW, they are salmon, but the artwork is not mine...

Sarkut: Thanks. The problem is, I will be receiving artwork that may be rectilinear. I will be manufacturing cups, and accepting custom prints, and submitting those to a printer. This one is just a quick example. So, they may have more text, in various fonts, when I receive the images. Possum Roadkill: I would like to bend the rectilinear image into the curved shape, like tube oblique does, but have the image not only be stretched in the y axis, but have it actually bent along the curve... so that the text is upright, perpindicular to the bottom of the cup, when it is formed into a cup. Sorry if I am not explaining it well. I will try that Shape 3D, I have not tried it yet, thanks.

I have been struggling with this. I need to take a rectangular image and stretch and bend it into a washer shape, that would be a paper cup wall. I tried power stretch, tube oblique, point warp, and others, but the lettering will not rotate around the curve. Needs to fit in this: Here is the best I have been able to do, but the text needs to stay perpendicular to the bottom curve on the cup wall, and with tube oblique it does not, it remains in the vertical direction. Is there a better way to do this??? I know I can curve text only with Circle Text, but I really need to take an image and curve it . Thanks!