ThinWraps

tom30

Can someone expain to me how to use the ThinWrap templates to resize a picture so that the edges don't disappear in the wrap? I am selling some collages on SmugMug which need to have the edges preserved. See an example below to see why.

I tried loading the template, which I downloaded from Bay Photo, and the picture together as layers in Photoshop, but the template just shows up as a white box with part of it as a transparent background. I didn't see a way to use this. I should point out that I am not an advanced user of Photoshop. I tried e-mailing Bay Photo and calling their tech support but did not get a useable explanation. The tech person told me I should be able to do this with the template but acknowledged she wasn't all that experience with Photoshop and couldn't help me.


I assume I will need to extend the canvas in Photoshop and resize the photo so that only the extended canvas area will be wrapped. I have tried doing this several times but never can get it exact for the crop in the shopping cart. I am sure there has to be an easier way to do this.


Thanks.

SteveM

Hi Tom,

All thinwraps have a 1/2" wrap on all four sides, so you'll want to extend your canvas 1" for width, and 1" for height, or 21x17" for this particular image. Hopefully you have your layered PSD still handy so you won't have to redo the composite, specifically for the two gents on the right.

To extend the canvas in Photoshop, load up the file, then use Image>Canvas Size, and add an inch to each dimension. You can then decide what to fill the extra space with. If you're working with the PSD, it'd be easiest to just use the Free Transform tool to stretch the gradient background to fit the new canvas, then extend your color block text areas.

The new file will fit and crop in the shopping cart perfectly.

P.S., the Bay Photo template is simply a white JPG sized to 250 DPI at 17x21" with guide rules pulled out to mark 1/2". If you want to make use of this, load it up, then use Image>Image Size, and check the Resample box, then change the DPI to 300 (since your working composite is at 300 DPI). Now, using the Move tool, you can drag and drop your composite onto the template.

I hope this helps, Tom. Shout with any questions.

tom30

SteveM wrote: »

Hi Tom,

All thinwraps have a 1/2" wrap on all four sides, so you'll want to extend your canvas 1" for width, and 1" for height, or 21x17" for this particular image. Hopefully you have your layered PSD still handy so you won't have to redo the composite, specifically for the two gents on the right.

To extend the canvas in Photoshop, load up the file, then use Image>Canvas Size, and add an inch to each dimension. You can then decide what to fill the extra space with. If you're working with the PSD, it'd be easiest to just use the Free Transform tool to stretch the gradient background to fit the new canvas, then extend your color block text areas.

The new file will fit and crop in the shopping cart perfectly.

P.S., the Bay Photo template is simply a white JPG sized to 250 DPI at 17x21" with guide rules pulled out to mark 1/2". If you want to make use of this, load it up, then use Image>Image Size, and check the Resample box, then change the DPI to 300 (since your working composite is at 300 DPI). Now, using the Move tool, you can drag and drop your composite onto the template.

I hope this helps, Tom. Shout with any questions.

Thanks Steve. That is exactly the info I was looking for. I have been spinning my wheels for days on this. Thanks a million.

Tom