canvas printing with gallery wrap

[AlanEncore]

I want to print on a 13x19 canvas sheet showing the full photo on the front using a gallery wrap. The wrap uses up 1" of the canvas so I need to occupy that 1" with the outter edge of the photo. Using elements 6 I need to mirror 1" on each of 4 sides and flip the image. How do I do that?

[Juergen D]

Like this? I did only two sides here. The black lines are to indicate the fold. The total canvas is 15 x 21, the image after wrapping is 13 x 19.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1GIsNhMMCFbUlhtey2sNXKIRzdh6Zh_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1GIsNhMMCFbUlhtey2sNXKIRzdh6Zh)

Size your image to 13 x 19 then increase the canvas size by two inches in width and height. That gives you one inch of white space all around. Select for the vertical length a portion of the edge of the image that is 1 x 19. Place it on a new layer (CTRL-J). Then go to >Image >Rotate >Flip Layer Horizontal and, using the Move tool, pull it over to the right or left. Do the same with the horizontal pieces of the image (13 x 1, flip layer vertical).

Juergen

[AlanEncore]

So this will work on all four sides. Now canvas area is 13x19 so print is actually 11x17. Is there an easy way to crop out the 1" border that is moved to the edge?

[Juergen D]

I was trying to cover both questions in my previous post.

First question:
The total canvas is 15 x 21, the image after wrapping is 13 x 19.
Second question:

Select for the vertical length a portion of the edge of the image that is 1 x 19. Place it on a new layer (CTRL-J).


Juergen

[AlanEncore]

I've tried for an hour to get that 1x19in in a new layer. Each time I crop I loose the orginigal pic. and only end up with the 1x19in picture. I use PE 6. I'm almost ready to pull out my hair what I have left. I just want to crop then reverse the image. How hard can that be.

[Juergen D]

You do not crop. You have to select with the Rectangular Selection tool (now that area is surrounded by 'marching ants') and then press CTRL-J. That will put the little strip on its own layer. Then flip it and move it. The large picture will stay in place.

Juergen

[AlanEncore]

Thanks for that advise. I tried the rect. selection tool, but I couldn't do anything with it., but didn't try the CTRL J with the tool. Hope it works. Also I didn't see anything defining measurement with the tool. Do I just have to guess as to an 1" wide for the tool?

[emkayess65]

Hi Alan, if you go under View in the Menu bar you have a Ruler and a Grid you can make visible by putting a checkmark on it.
The Grid is adjustabe in Edit >> Preferences. Choose inch with maybe 1 division.
Under View is a setting of Snap to Grid. Put a checkmark there also.

hth
mks

[paulcroft]

Hi Alan

When you select the rectangular marquee tool the options bar changes to reflect options available. Select 'Fixed size' from the 'Mode:' drop down list and the width and height boxes will become live. Then just type in the sizes you want.

Paul

[AlanEncore]

I did the marquee tool and and reversed that part of the image. Now I can't get it to move to the side of the orginal photo to creat a mirror effect.

[paulcroft]

Alan

I'm nowhere near as experienced as Juergen D. He seems to give the imression you can apply the marqueed sections to the original but I'm not sure you can.

May I suggest you try this:

1. Open the original photo, if necessary resize it to 13x19, then make a duplicate and save this as, e.g., "copy of ..."

2. Working from the original photo, use the marquee tool to select the two sides, the top and the bottom, place each on a separate layer, rename each new layer as appropriate, e.g. left, right, top and bottom and invert each as necessary. Make sure you have the background layer and the four new layers visible in the palette bin.

3. Switch to the duplicate photo (Ctrl+tab), go to Image>Resize>Canvas size and increase the canvas by two inches width and height, i.e. to 15 x 21. Your duplicate will now show with a one inch white border around it.

4. Switch back to the original photo and, making sure you can see some of each photo on your desktop, you should now be able to drag the four inverted layers from the original photo's layer palette onto the duplicate photo and line them up as necessary - they should snap into position if all goes well.

Hope that helps.

Paul

[Juergen D]

Thanks, Paul, for the further explanation. Yes, you can do that on the original image, as long as you have beforehand added the extra inch all around. All the pieces are on their own layers, which you can move into position. My little demonstration above was done that way.

I did not save the layers, else I would post the a screen shot of them. Sorry.

Juergen

[paulcroft]

Juergen
Thanks for the confirmation. Of course you can. I was trying to drag the layer from the palette back onto the original canvas when all I had to do was move it sideways. It's daft errors like this which help the new-found knowledge to 'stick'.
Paul

[AlanEncore]

I appreciate you trying to explain the process to me. I saw on a demo on youtube where the guy outlined what he wanted to mirror then all he did was take one side past the opposite causing it to make a mirror effect. There was no layer involved. It looked quite simple.

[Jeff Perry]

Alan, let me suggest a simpler way that does NOT involve mirroring the edge, rather you expand the outer edge so it flows over the wrap.

It also requires you to expand the canvas by 1" on all sides, do that in the Image>Resize dialog as has been discussed.

Once you have the image with the new 1" white border, take your Rectangular Marquee tool and draw out a narrow rectangular marque the entire length of the image along one edge. It should only cover about 1/4 to 1/2 inch of the actual image. This is the edge that we are going to stretch into the new blank canvas area.

With a narrow edge of your image selected, switch to the Move Tool (V), and you will see the corner and middle tiny square "handles" appear. Grab the outer middle handle and drag towards the edge of your canvas. What you are doing is "transforming" or stretching those selected pixels so the fill all the way to the edge of the canvas.

Do this for the the other three sides.

You may need to experiment with the width of the selected edge. The trick is do do it with as many or few pixels as you can get away with, but you may find it gives a very pleasing "bleed" of the original image into the area that is now going to serve as the wrapped edge.

Hope it helps.

Jeff