Hi,
V5
I have a large raster image of various stencil fonts alphabet and numbers and need to duplicate the image then place a crop mask around a particular character and move it to where I am drawing that character.
At the moment I have to move the image and its obliterating other work, also I wish to place the character beside another raster and compare both and I can’t do so.
Yes I could open it into photoshop and create 30 or more rasters from it, very long winded,
In Macromdia Freehand one could select the image and go copy, then draw a shape and go ‘paste inside’.
One could shove the image around within the mask. If I made a new raster in Pshop I couldnt do that.
Also if I want to warp or distort tool the image to correct any tilt etc, can that be done in Rhino ?
Well, you could cut the picture frame object up into individual images by just drawing lines and splitting. In V5 you might possibly to run into some bugs that were later fixed, such as the inadvertent shrinking of the surface which will end up rescaling the whole image so that it fits in the cut up part.
Yes, you can rebuild the picture frame surface with as many points as you want and then start point editing.
Hi, I wont be cutting it up then.
I really had hoped there was a simple means of drawing a shaape then copy pasting the Picture Frame image inside it making invisible all but that within the frame.
Oh Dear.
anything in V8 ?
as for point editing, what command is that to apply to the picture frame and how would one perform the distort tool of photoshop, which by the way is THE TOOL, for removing perspective from a photo, and not the perspective tool.
Turn on the picture frame’s control points and move them. Rebuild to add more points and thus more local control. It doesn’t quite work like Photoshop (because it’s not designed to) but you can do pretty much anything PS can do once you understand how it works. Maybe try it yourself?
Hi,
V8 about to buy. then a while before I get to install it and set it to suit import of V5 projects, dims etc to act as V5 does in layout view and normal views (hope it all goes well) , after the problems I had with V7, and grid colours etc.
It sounds like you are completely disregarding Mitch’ excellent advise that was given earlier:
Those are going to be exactly the same in Rhino 8, with the addition that several users find curve display in Rhino 7 to be better than in Rhino 8.
-wim
When I read crop mask on picture I think of trimming. So why not make copies of your picture frame and for each object you want to outline just add a curve and do a _Trim …?
Trimming works fine in V5 - it’s what I suggested in my first answer - but IIRC if one accidentally shrank a trimmed image surface after trimming, you would get the entire image on the trimmed part. Plus sometimes it did it all by itself. In V8 it works fine.
Is the problem you are referring about V7 and “grid colours” the one you mentioned in this post
I’m little curious, Have you tried Rhino7 recently (latest service release)?
The reason I ask is because back then I could clearly see what you were complaining about and today I opened Rhino7 ( the latest version) and could no longer see it.
Hi,
That would be it, I havent ‘let in’ the latest upgrade on V7 recently, as I am in V5 getting a massive project done, and no time to go backing up Pc etc.
However today I have purchased V8 and must somehow find time to install it, Lets hope what you see is also there in v8, or better, just back to V5 is my hope.
I wouldn’t drop everything you are doing to install Rhino8, but I believe in the long run you made a good choice. I think maybe some of the horrors of V8 and the reaction to them by users is just the kick in the butt McNeel needed to fix some of the many things that have been broken in Rhino for many years.
