How can I make a pinch effect?

[blundell]

Hi guys,

I've looked into this myself, looked to see if I could find a plugin, but clearly I'm an amateur and suck!

I'm trying to make a pinch effect on my text image.

I have this:

But I want to pinch it in the middle so it's kind of a horizontal hourglass. Like this:

Is there a plugin or a few steps someone could explain? I need to change the size once I've 'pinched' it so I'd rather I was told how to do it than someone just did it :-)

Thanks for listening x

[Sarkut]

You can use the Liquify plugin, set to Pucker, Pressure 1%.

Make several clicks and/or sweeps in the central region of the text.

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Edited March 7, 2011 by Sarkut

[blundell]

Thanks for that, but that kind of stretches it into a bubble with arcs, I wanted something a bit more angular so there is less horizontal distortion.

Any other suggestions?

Edited March 7, 2011 by blundell

[Sarkut]

You could carefully cut it into chunks by selection,

and vertically shrink the middle selections using .

[blundell]

Good idea, I have tried that but trouble is I need both sides to be symmetrically large so that makes it kind of hard.

I've split it up into 3 layers so I'll try some more!

Sorry for being so awkward :-) I'll keep trying

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Try Bulge. See this post: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/21143-what-text-effect-is-this/page__view__findpost__p__348882

Your selection should divide the graphic in half vertically (with a goodly sized margin around the rest of the image). Then apply bulge.

When happy with that half of the effect, invert the selection and repeat bulge of the other half.

[yellowman]

Try

, You need, Quadrilateral/Reshape plugin from Evan's package,

The quality will affected a little bit, so try to work on larger canvas.

[blundell]

Thanks for the reply's.

I've tried bulge, looks good. But yellow man that video is perfect! I knew it had something to do with the symmetry of it.

Thanks!