Date: 03/22/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

I'm going to try and explain this as best I can. It's a little difficult without actually seeing the document open in Photoshop. Thanks in advance for any and all help! Also sorry for any x-posting.


I have Photoshop document with two layers. The bottom layer is an overhead map. The top layer is what I want to be a decorative winding path around the walkways and roads shown on the map. Right now this top layer has been created as a straight line. I want to bend it to fit around all the twists and turns of the roads of the map layer. But I do not want to distort it so the design becomes unrecognizable.

Is there a simple way to accomplish this? I tried smudge, but it completely destroys the top image. Filter-->Liquify didn't seem to work well either. (For one thing, I can't even see the map layer when I liquify.) I feel like I should be able to use paths, but is that even a possible solution for a problem like this?

Is Adobe Illustrator a better program to accomplish this in? (I know text in that program can be written on a complicated winding path.) If so, how would I go about doing it? (I'm only slightly familiar with Illustrator.) Or is some other program better?

Thanks again!!!

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