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How do you make a ring thinner? - Hoot - 05-20-2019
Greetings.
Seems like a basic function and run into it a lot but haven't found a tutorial yet. Basically, I want to make a ringed object thinner so it doesn't lose its size, just needs to be narrower. Is there a way to do this?
RE: How do you make a ring thinner? - Ofnuts - 05-20-2019
Not such a basic function. In fact pretty hard to do because you want something like a "radial scaling". Easiness would depend a lot on the actual ring and its background. Have you got a sample image?
RE: How do you make a ring thinner? - Hoot - 05-20-2019
(05-20-2019, 06:39 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Not such a basic function. In fact pretty hard to do because you want something like a "radial scaling". Easiness would depend a lot on the actual ring and its background. Have you got a sample image?
Yes, this is the ring I'm talking about, transparent background.
![[Image: goldinterweave.png?w=775]](https://wolfpck.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/goldinterweave.png?w=775)
RE: How do you make a ring thinner? - Ofnuts - 05-20-2019
- Make sure the image is square and the ring is centered in it (for this image, just crop the top)
- Filters>Distorts>Polar coordinates, and untick the "To Polar". This will transform your ring into a rectangle at the bottom
- Select the resulting rectangle (no need ot be too accurate), and scale it down vertically using the Scale tool
- Commit/Anchor the transform (Ctr-H) and remove the selection Select>None
- Filters>Distorts>Polar coordinates again, and tick the "To Polar".
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