Tips/advice wanted on matching jpeg graphics to my cabinet sides

[jimmer]

I have Illustrator and Photoshop, but all I've done so far is play with vector graphics in Illustrator.

What I want to do now is be able to take a big picture and see what part of it would look like on my cab side. Like this guy has done, I'm aiming for something like options 2 and 3.

Can anyone give me a quick pointer on the steps I need to take. Even knowing the terminology would help me search how to do it.

thanks.

[thomas_surles]

You could take a really good straight picture of the side of your cab and cut it out in photoshop and put the image on a layer behind it. Assuming this is just for a reference to see how it looks.

[jimmer]

I've got the side profile of my cab in various formats. A vector path in Illustrator, and I can make pngs from that (I'm sure).

What you are suggesting is to make the side of the cab transparent (or is a hole something else), and look through at the graphics on the layer below.

I hadn't thought of that because I was working from the example I posted which looks like the cab side is 'solid' and the background is transparent, and then the graphics have been cast on to it.

I will have a play in photoshop.

[thomas_surles]

Yeah basically. I would cut it out. Paste it on a blank background and then cut it out again and have the image showing through the hole you cut out. Something simple like that.