Urgent help pls! Putting black text on a chrome cylindrical face inPhotoWorks

Hi all,

I have an urgent need to get a picture back to a customer. He has
provided their company logo as a JPG, black text on a white
background. I need to show it wrapped around a cylindrical component.
The Component is chromed.

How on earth do I do that? I know that I can wrap the image as a decal
but how to get the background to disappear so it looks like black text
on a chrome surface?

Help!

Thanks

Flynt

 

Flynt,

You will likely need to modify the JPG image (using a Program such as
Adobe PhotoShop) so that the background is transparent. Otherwise, the
wrapped decal will continue to look like a rectangular label.

Per O. Hoel
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For a decal like this,.. after you insert your image file (decal
preview),.. select the "mask image" options below,.. choose "selective
color mask",.. then, click on the eyedropper icon then, select the
white area (RGB 255,255,255) on the decal preview,.. if there is more
wht/gray noise (i.e.,.. RGB 254,253,254,.. jpg's create noise, the
edges are not crisp),.. keep using the eyedropper to mask as much as
you can,... if that isn't clean enuf, you'll have to do some editing
or recreate a cleaner B/W logo label (and save it as a PNG with a
alpha channel..
Otherwise, you can also use the other "image mask file" option which
mask out the background using a inverted or negative image.
In either case, you can save the changes to a *.P2D decal file to
preserve your changes.

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oh, and,... chrome is basically "BLACK" so, with black on
black,..you'll have to add some contrast... either add a small amount
color difference, texture or surface finish to enhance the contrast?

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I have found that by selecting the exact same image as the image mask
and then ticking 'invert mask' works quite well. If you make sure that
in the material properties of the decal you set it to constant then it
looks quite like a rub down type sticker.

 

for a quick workaround,.. if you can't get chrome to work easily,..
try one of the other reflective metals, such as, mercury.

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