Curve Bend help?

[Amy de l'ABC]

(09-20-2020, 10:23 AM)rich2005 Wrote: You might get it with the Cage Transform tool. Put in some guides to keep the control points in line.

Maybe like this.  The control points were originally at the corners and along the top / bottom edge.



edit: another example using a path as a visual guide. https://i.imgur.com/ScWxQLh.jpg Increased the canvas size for a bit of working room.

(09-20-2020, 01:10 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(09-20-2020, 10:23 AM)rich2005 Wrote: edit: another example using a path as a visual guide. https://i.imgur.com/ScWxQLh.jpg Increased the canvas size for a bit of working room.

Use View>Snap to active path and the path becomes an actual guide

Thanks for the ideas! I'm attempting the cage transform and ran into another issue. Well, two actually, #1 being that when I imported my path from Inkscape--I'm more comfortable with the path tools there--in GIMP, it wasn't made of like...8 or 9 points or whatever it was I had in Inkscape, but like...a ton of them. Like...I'm terrible at eyeballing but maybe at least 30. So that was annoying. But the bigger problem (I solved the first one by exporting a PNG from Inkscape instead of a path; if I'm not using it as a path, might as well just use an image instead) is that the cage transform is acting kinda wonky, and I'm not sure why. Like...



The red lines are from the PNG I got from Inkscape--figured that'd be a good way to have a guide. I highlighted the cage transform control points in blue. So like...I originally had them just everywhere the guides met the top and bottom of the lace (much like in the first example rich posted). Then I moved the one up, expecting the lace to go with it, and...yeah that didn't happen...no idea why...

Again, any help is appreciated!