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Creating A Realistic 3D Flag In PhotoShop!!!

Creating A Realistic 3D Flag In PhotoShop!!!

This instructible will teach you how to make a realistic looking flag, but not only can this effect be used for flags It can be used for almost anything

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Step 1First things first!

get your self a picture of some fabric and a picture fo a flag, you can use mine if you like.

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41 comments

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Apr 4, 2012. 11:17 AMasmir004 says:

Bosnian Flag

Apr 30, 2009. 10:37 AMalaoeneye says:

Imagine making a comic with that idea, people would respect the art work.

Jan 8, 2010. 6:15 PMfoxtrot4697 says:

cept it wouldn't be art, it would be something that photoshop has done for you

Mar 26, 2012. 5:55 PMfarmerboyk says:

Still art :3

Nov 21, 2011. 7:46 AMferraririder123 says:

My software is adobe photoshop CS5 ,and i can't do the step 4 ,can anyone help?

Jul 23, 2011. 8:45 AMklodianpepkola says:

Albanian Flag

Mar 15, 2010. 4:32 AMJohnJY says:

I don't have the programs for this, but can someone do this to my avatar icon, please?

Jul 9, 2011. 2:18 PMmmhiggins says:

Here you go

Jul 13, 2011. 9:24 AMJohnJY says:

Wow! Thanks!

May 20, 2010. 5:13 PMNienna247 says:

Hello!
After I saw this instructable I thought I'd give it a go and experiment with a whole variety of textures that I downloaded off Google.
Here's a preview of what I did:

This is a very neat trick, even my mum who has more photoshop know-how than me marvelled a it.

Thanks!

Oct 1, 2009. 11:47 AM

TyMan210 says:

Thanks!

Oct 1, 2009. 11:59 AM

TyMan210 says:

One more.

Feb 10, 2010. 7:58 AM

TyMan210 says:

I made a couple more:

Jan 4, 2010. 8:31 AM

jamiec53 says:

'You're finished' is what it should say. Sorry, I couldn't resist!

Oct 1, 2008. 1:23 PMpeeperman says:

thanks my friend! here is mine, the greek flag

Jan 4, 2010. 8:28 AM

jamiec53 says:

That's the scottish flag, the upper-left hand corner of the greek flag, and the greek naval jack...

Look here

Mar 27, 2009. 1:21 PMFoaly7 says:

That's only the upper left-hand corner of the Greek flag.

Nov 2, 2008. 1:24 AMDerin says:

can somebody tell how to do it in gimp?

Jul 21, 2009. 12:51 PM12tigers says:

wow thats ghetto... really? gimp?

Jul 22, 2009. 12:33 AMDerin says:

NVM,I got Photoshop CS3.

Sep 25, 2009. 5:12 PMthe.mk95 says:

LOL

Sep 20, 2009. 10:38 PMtartanthing says:

my very first completed instructable! i made something i couldnt find! thanks!

Sep 2, 2009. 8:55 PMI am Silas. says:

Where can you find a free photoshop site?

Sep 12, 2009. 6:39 PMAtomman says:

Photoshop is probably illegal to get for free, so I always use GIMP. It's has the same things Photoshop has only for no cost and is legal.

Aug 27, 2009. 1:04 PMBabak_Mahzoon says:

That's fantastic. I thank you very much.

Aug 8, 2009. 12:50 AMRaiyan says:

Thanks. Here is the Bangladeshi flag.

Apr 4, 2009. 3:15 PMparree says:

look nice?that photo came from francis magalona....

Mar 9, 2009. 10:19 PMpetluke says:

Thank you

Feb 26, 2009. 6:53 AMidiep says:

This is a great Tutorial thanks so much!!!!

Jan 17, 2009. 3:42 PMAhmedqatar says:

Looks soooooooooooooo real !!

Nov 18, 2008. 11:24 AMMasterMediaXD says:

This is ssssssssssooooooooooooooooooooooooo hard I past the fabric on my union jack and bang my union jack turns to fabric but the fabric's too small so its union flabric?

Oct 29, 2008. 12:50 PMbabeinpink says:

Thank you so much for the great tips. Here is my American Flag.

Sep 29, 2008. 11:19 PMSolderguy says:

Awesome! I'm definitely gonna try this!.

Aug 24, 2008. 6:25 AMFixedHDD says:

very well! but i had to stretch the fabric picture at 800x480 like my flag was. then it worked. i done this with Picture->Size then i disabled "maintian proportion" and typed the pixelsize above in teh boxes. hehe i took the german flag: