Picture Question

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Picture Question

Hey everyone-
I'm working on something and I need to make a picture that is obviously a rectangle into a shape like this: http://homepage.mac.com/behindthescenes5/.Pictures/shape4.jpg

I don't have photoshop or anything. I tried distorting it in Final Cut Pro, but it didn't look so great after that. I thought this was something so simple and I've been sitting here for a while now trying to find some way to do it. Any suggestions? Thanks!

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.3.9), Final Cut Pro 5

Posted on Jun 21, 2006 10:05 PM

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Answer 1

Kurt Lang

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68,756 points

Jun 22, 2006 5:46 AM in response to behindTHEscenes5

The shape is referred to as a trapazoid. You're going to need some sort of drawing/image program. Photoshop, Photoshop Elements (much cheaper than the full version), the open source Gimp (a free Photoshop copy), Illustrator, Freehand or other raster/vector drawing program.

Check out www.versiontracker.com and do a search for such programs. You may find some simple shareware or free apps, other than the Gimp, that can do what you need.

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Answer 2

Bob Bujic

Level 1

134 points

Jun 22, 2006 8:03 AM in response to behindTHEscenes5

Send the image to nosared@yahoo.ca (incl. your email) and give me some indications re dimensions needed.

Bob

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Answer 3

Jun 27, 2006 1:07 PM in response to Kurt Lang

Thanks for your reply. Sorry it took me so long to get back to you- I was out of town for the weekend and then Discussions kept giving me and error when I'd try to reply. Anyway, I looked around Version Tracker and couldn't find anything for free that would do what I needed so I just downloaded a 30-day free trial of Photoshop and created the trapazoid with that.

Thank you for the suggestions.
-Dean

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