How put an image along a circle path?

[Nicolaj1900]

Hello,

I am making a wheel pack for a game but I want to put an image on a circle path. how to do it?

(I put image as a example that I found on google)

greetings

[NotMyFault]

Hi,

option one:

• add a live mesh warp filter, and
• adjust the 4 nodes accordingly.

option 2:

1. make a copy of the wheel.
2. mark intended start / end position of image
3. rasterize
4. use polar to rectangular filter
5. place the image at the intended location
6. merge down
7. use rectangular to polar filter

 

[Nicolaj1900]

Hello, sorry for the late reply.

The results are not as I wanted when I put it.

I have tried text path as well, I have put Michelin and Goodyear tyre logos on circle as text path (copied the logo and paste on the path) but the logos/icons will not bend, how to fix it?

 

greetings

[NotMyFault]

1 hour ago, Nicolaj1900 said:

The results are not as I wanted when I put it.

Well, you must ensure all is perfectly set up

• the wheel layer must be pixel-perfect (but using an odd number to get one center pixel) and identical for x/y axis
• the wheel must be perfectly centered 
• The logo must be in suitable size and as sharp as possible

Can you elaborate what went wrong?

 

[NotMyFault]

1 hour ago, Nicolaj1900 said:

path) but the logos/icons will not bend

That is correct.

to get the logos bend, you must use one of the tools:

1. mesh warp
2. rectangular to polar

And ensure the required constraints like rectangular layers, perfect alignment etc.

if you can provide the wheel and the logo in a file, I can create a screen recording showing the exact steps.

[NotMyFault]

As you can see your wheel is not centered.

[NotMyFault]

I prepared the wheel layer by

• cropping to 493x393px for perfect centering
• checked centering by donut tool
• added 2px symmetrically at each side in white (required for later steps)
• for remaining steps see video

[NotMyFault]

After the distortion filters you get a little radial color spill on the white background. Simply clean this up later, you need to cut out the circular center piece and add a white background.

[NotMyFault]

In case you want to add vector based logos, Designer and the live mesh warp group would be easier to use. 

[Nicolaj1900]

Thank you for explaining 🙂