Preserved Topic: Magnify? Distort? WTF???

Waz Up I need Some help.......(as if you didn't know) ok..
Lets say I have something (text or whatever) and over it i wanna have a clear shape (like a magnifying glass) how would i give it the magnified "distorted" look???
i hope thats clear enough to understand
thanks
AZ2k

take what's under your text and double that layer. sandwhich the text between those two layers like so:
copy
text
orig

group the copy with the text, then run a spherize on the copy...I think...

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Sort of but not quite.... I want to have the wordz "Absolute Zer0" in red on a swirling background. And i want to have a big letter Z come throught it 3-D looking and distort the backgrounf and "Abolute Zer0" got any more advice?
thanks
P.S. Nice sig Slolem
Absolute Zer0

Merge your background and text, make a circular selection, and then sphererize. Didn't Phong do a tutorial on this?

yea that would work great if i wanted it to be a circle........

It's not really all that tuff. Make the Z and the swirly background...wow, this is going to be really ugly. Anyway, select the outline of the Z (control-click on the Z layer), then go to the background layer. With the Z's outline still selected, run the pinch filter several times. Deselect and you're done.




[This message has been edited by mbridge (edited 25-09-2000).]

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