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Posted on 19/04/13 07:41:08 AM

Steve Caplin
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Challenge 450: Spin the bottle

A number of you used bottles in last week's Challenge, and of course this meant using pictures of bottles found through Google. The problem is that manufacturers always photograph their bottles head-on, so the labels face the front. But when they're used in a montage, this always looks artificial: the bottle jumps out as a montaged element.

The way to solve the problem is, of course, to slide the label around the side. But just how difficult is this to achieve?

Here's a bottle I found on Wikipedia. Can you rotate it about 45 degrees, so the label is more at an angle?

High res is here.

Posted on 19/04/13 07:59:23 AM

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Re: Challenge 450: Spin the bottle

Thanks! Do we have to drink some of the contents before!?

, not that I like Dewar's whisky, so would be a sacrifice..

Posted on 19/04/13 09:02:30 AM

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Re: Challenge 450: Spin the bottle

Trevor, you are supposed to finish the bottle first, otherwise the challenge is just too easy.

Posted on 19/04/13 09:25:20 AM

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Posted on 19/04/13 10:21:46 AM

josephine harvatt
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Piece of cake ....

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Posted on 19/04/13 10:22:13 AM

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Oh ... you didn't mean ...

I'll get me coat

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Posted on 19/04/13 11:18:37 AM

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Re: Challenge 450: Spin the bottle

I tried it at around 45 degrees ...

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Posted on 19/04/13 11:19:39 AM

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... and 180 degrees

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Posted on 19/04/13 10:01:37 PM

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Posted on 20/04/13 11:51:33 AM

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http://vimeo.com/64442365

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Posted on 20/04/13 10:22:16 PM

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Just fancied a little tipple before bedtime!

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Posted on 21/04/13 08:48:23 AM

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Very nice Anna

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Posted on 21/04/13 12:13:25 PM

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Re: Challenge 450: Spin the bottle

GKB wrote:
Very nice Anna

Thanks Gordon

Do you reckon the bottle will be empty by the end of the week?

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Posted on 21/04/13 12:31:11 PM

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Re: Challenge 450: Spin the bottle

First I tried out the 3D-engine, and I applied to Bend the Horizontal Angle. Only to discover the 3D-bottel wasn't the same size as the original anymore.
The engine didn't do what I was expecting. Also, I can't figure out what those Coordinates mean. I only bent horizontal, and didn't Free Transform anything. And yet the X-Y-Z figures look very incomprehensible to me. I'd expected a zero on Z for instance or at least not a (negative) figure behind the comma. So I did the bottle the 'old fashened way'.