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Megan Turnidge

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HELP PLEASE! So, I remember you posting in a thread Misty started about templates for pails. And I just covered a pail and it took me forever to make my own template with paper and it's not perfect. I bought several pails in different sizes and was wondering if you could explain to me in STOOOPID terms (LOL) how to make a perfect template in PSE using the diameter of the top and bottom of the pail. :D I'm seriously stumped because the template I made with paper is curved on the top and bottom in order to lay flat against the pail.
 
Well, here's the thing. I don't think the way I explained it earlier, would work. LOL!

Are yours more like buckets, where the top is a bigger circle than the bottom, so the sides are sloping? Or like paint cans, where it's a straight up and down side?
 
Buckets.... paint cans would be easy because that's just a straight slip of paper. lol I'm totally stumped how I'd make a template in PSE with the correct curve.
 
Yea, that's really hard to do. LOL!

The only thing I'm thinking of is this (Which I've never tried before in my life, so I'm just hypothesizing). Tape a small piece of string to the CENTER of the bottom of the bucket. Tape that to a piece of paper bigger than 2x the height of the bucket.
Place a pencil at one point along the top of the bucket. Roll the bucket around the center of where the string is taped down (so the string should always stay taught and move like the hands of a clock around the taped point) and trace the path the top of the bucket makes. Go 180 degrees (half circle) plus maybe a little more for a good overlap.
Repeat for the bottom.
Cut out, scan, use as template. Make 2 (one for each side).

Is that clear? Or no?
 
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I think I get what you're saying. :) Thanks! I was just hoping there was some way I could do it on the computer without scanning. lol!!
 
what about if you measured the top measurement around then the bottom measurement and lets say the top was 12 the bottom was 8 and if you made the paper 12 then set rulers on(if you have rulers on your program I use PSP and it does) and then drew a line from the top to the bottom at the correct angle to get to where it would need to be and then only put what you were making inside those lines?
 
jessica31876 said:
what about if you measured the top measurement around then the bottom measurement and lets say the top was 12 the bottom was 8 and if you made the paper 12 then set rulers on(if you have rulers on your program I use PSP and it does) and then drew a line from the top to the bottom at the correct angle to get to where it would need to be and then only put what you were making inside those lines?
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That was my thinking at first, but for everything to line up right and the paper to lay flat, the top and bottom need to be curved slightly.... kinda like a rainbow but flatter. Does that make sense?
 
Oh yea...hmmm well what if you made it slightly larger then what you would need it to be and try to keep all graphics towards the center? Then when you lay it down you could trim it to make it fit better.

mturnidge said:
That was my thinking at first, but for everything to line up right and the paper to lay flat, the top and bottom need to be curved slightly.... kinda like a rainbow but flatter. Does that make sense?
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jessica31876 said:
Oh yea...hmmm well what if you made it slightly larger then what you would need it to be and try to keep all graphics towards the center? Then when you lay it down you could trim it to make it fit better.
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Well, I just printed out one piece of paper... it's not actually decorated digitally. I decorated with real life embellies. I was just hoping to get the actual SHAPE done in PSE so I wouldn't have to make a crude template with the paper. lol... I'm too much of a perfectionist is the problem. I was hoping I could figure out mathematically what the shape would have to be (with the correct curves and such) and then try to make that shape in PSE. But, I'm not feeling too smart and it's been way too long since GeoTrig. lol :D I already finished one bucket, but wanted to make a template in PSE for my other buckets (I have four more, one in a completely different size).
 
Hmmm well I asked my daughter who just took geometry last year and her b/f and neither of them could figure out an equation to do it either. I wish I could help.
 
OK I thought of something else...what if you took a template like for a coffee cup (like the ones for starbucks cups) and increased it in size so that it would be the right size for the pail? I have seen those online and I think that it might work
 
jessica31876 said:
OK I thought of something else...what if you took a template like for a coffee cup (like the ones for starbucks cups) and increased it in size so that it would be the right size for the pail? I have seen those online and I think that it might work
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Good thinkin'! But part of the problem is how slanted the bucket is... I can't really think of how to explain it.... but some buckets have a greater difference between the size of the top and bottom and it would depend on the distance from the top and bottom as well. Does that make any sense? lol Clear as mud, right? :blink:
 
yea thats true...didnt reallythink about that. Well hope you can figure it out. Only other solution I could come up with is to take some cheapy paper and print in b/w as a quick print to avoid using to much ink and play with the setting in PS to see if you can figure it out that way. Good luck with it.
 
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