Topic awaiting preservation: Ribbon of Notes disappearing

Hi,
I would like to add a band of notes to a photoshop drawing. Notes on the bar waving like a ribbon into the background. Any ideas how to accomplish this?
Karl..

I assume you mean music notes?

Pen Tool - draw the first line of your bar, with whatever curves give you the waving effect you'd like.

Stroke.

Duplicate layer 4 times.

Circular marquee tool - make a note sized circle. Fill.
Line tool to draw the stem.

Merge layers, duplicate as needed...

Edit - oh, as for disappeaing:

once you have everything laid out, merge your layers. make a copy to work on.

Go to edit > transform.

Play around with the skew, distort, and perspective options until you get what you want.




(Edited by DL-44 on 01-21-2006 21:24)

You could just grab some music notation software, lay out the notes you want, take a screenshot (or save to bitmap, if the software supports it), then distort it to your liking.

DL's solution is probably the smoothest one and the one that produces the best quality. You could also try to find a suitable photograph (or even take one yourself), paste the layer to the file you want it to be in and then transform it like DL already described it...

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reisio said:

You could just grab some music notation software, lay out the notes you want, take a screenshot (or save to bitmap, if the software supports it), then distort it to your liking.

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That adds the problem of the bar 'waving' the way karl described. There are ways around that, as well, but all in all just making this by hand the way I described is very simple and fast, and gives ulitimate control.

Of course, you do whatever works =)