airship.....sorta...

[berkoWitZ]

Hi, Im trying to make the word "Greatwall" look like its in the airship (sorry I dont know how one of those its called in english :P) but it´s hard, I need sugestions to make it look better and how does it look now as it is now?? thanks!

[Coppertop]

I believe it's called a Hot air balloon ;)

looks good except for one thing, the words don't follow the curvature of the balloon, the remain straight, although the balloon is round. You see?

[eilsoe]

copper: The balloon is not perfectly round, it bulges on the sides, the center of the text is in between two bulges, making it look like it's straight ;)

[berkoWitZ]

yes, this balloon its not too round, thats why the part "wall" looks like its straight, but its not, at least thats what I think :P but thats exactly the part I dont like, the "wall"

[eilsoe]

yeah the wall part looks too straight... the rest is close...

[berkoWitZ]

this time I apply "spherize" a little more, I also made "wall" brighter...

[DDD]

doesnt look bad in the future when you want things to conform to a shape look into the often over looked displacement tools in PS.

[berkoWitZ]

yes I was trying to make some tuts about displacement, but this balloon its not too round and it didnt looked good...

[.soulty]

with displacment all you need is the channel with the most contrast of the ballloon. then trial and error with the settings in the filter.

[prstudio]

second one looks better - i would rotate "great" to be more horizontal though - i dont know your method but you'd kind of have to match great with one panel and then wall with the panel next door - wall looks pretty decent but "great" needs some work.

:)

[berkoWitZ]

ok great, thanks, I´ll try to fix it :)

thanks again for the replies!

[=guinness=]

remove the lense flare you inserted with PS, it is in the wrong spot for the shadow on the baloon. if it was really there then the face we see would be in shadow with no light but on the far left. looks a little cheesy.