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how to fit a photo to a 3d box?

Asked by Brian D. Phillips

When I copy a photo onto a page, it copies the photo just as if you had it in your hands and was looking straight into the photo. My ? is, is there a way to be able to tilt the photo so that your looking at it on an angled plane to give the photo a "flattend" look. Also, it there a way to adjust the 4 corners of a photo to different sizes that are independent of each corner?

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joelholdsworth (joel-airwebreathe) said : 		#1

I'm afraid, inkscape doesn't support that kind of warping on images at the moment. The most complicated transformation currently possible is the skew transform which would be okay for orthogonally projected cubes, but not cubes with perspective.

If you really must have perspective, the only possibility is to preprocess the image with the gimp perspective tool. You could export the cube as a png, then load it in gimp, then carefully warp your images into place over the faces.

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Best prkos (prkos) said : 		#2

Or you can Trace the photo (Path > Trace Bitmap) to turn it into vector format, and then use Perspective effect.

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Brian D. Phillips (bbrian) said : 		#3

Thanks prkos, that solved my question.