|  | Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. | | |
| | | DB |  |
|  Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. |  |
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Firstly.... apologies for not getting back...but its new PC time and i've
had boatloads of problems with this new tin box...
Also....many thanks for all who tried to help me....... Guess What ?? Im
still stuck......
My problem, Im trying to make a little sign for the car...... like "Baby On
Board".... I want to tak an image...... take a diamond shape from it and
then put a border around the image.
Thats it in a nutshell..........
If i have a picture and then crop it,,,,,,, thats fine...... but its the
wrong shape...... I have followed the advice given.... but it rotates the
image -45 degrees...... that would be fine if the image needed rotating -
but it doesnt. It only the "crop shape" or whatever you call it....
I know it can be done as i did it by accident last week and cant remember
how i did it.....
Imagine you have a portrait pic, then you want to make a diamond shape cut
from it, you will want the portarit to still be the same way up....... but I
want the canvas to be diamond shaped with the image still looking at me...
Im not very good at explaining myself but i hope you kind folk out there
sort of understand me...
Thanks again
Dave  |
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| | | DB | |
| | Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. | |
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Sort of achieved something.............
I rotated the canvas -45 degrees........ then cropped it....... the rotated
it 45 degrees....
Yep.... thats what i want...... image is the right way up.....
\now..... how do i put the border around it....... surely this must be the
easy bit,lol
Cheers
Dave :)
"DB" <Daveb007@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Firstly.... apologies for not getting back...but its new PC time and i've
had boatloads of problems with this new tin box...
Also....many thanks for all who tried to help me....... Guess What ?? Im
still stuck......
My problem, Im trying to make a little sign for the car...... like "Baby
On Board".... I want to tak an image...... take a diamond shape from it
and then put a border around the image.
Thats it in a nutshell..........
If i have a picture and then crop it,,,,,,, thats fine...... but its the
wrong shape...... I have followed the advice given.... but it rotates the
image -45 degrees...... that would be fine if the image needed rotating -
but it doesnt. It only the "crop shape" or whatever you call it....
I know it can be done as i did it by accident last week and cant remember
how i did it.....
Imagine you have a portrait pic, then you want to make a diamond shape
cut from it, you will want the portarit to still be the same way up.......
but I want the canvas to be diamond shaped with the image still looking at
me...
Im not very good at explaining myself but i hope you kind folk out there
sort of understand me...
Thanks again
Dave :)
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| | | John | |
| | Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:37 pm Post subject: Re: Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. | |
DB wrote:
| Quote: | My problem, Im trying to make a little sign for the car...... like "Baby
On Board".... I want to tak an image...... take a diamond shape from it
and then put a border around the image.
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Open the image. Use the marquee tool to drag a square over the area
(shift-drag). Then under the Select menu take Transform Selection.
Rotate the select marque. You can type 45 into the little box at the top
to make it perfect. Press Enter. Now in Select, take Inverse. Press Delete.
| Quote: | Thats it in a nutshell..........
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Yep. |
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| | | Talker | |
| | Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:19 am Post subject: Re: Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. | |
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:37:30 -0500, John <nohj@droffats.ten> wrote:
| Quote: | DB wrote:
My problem, Im trying to make a little sign for the car...... like "Baby
On Board".... I want to tak an image...... take a diamond shape from it
and then put a border around the image.
Open the image. Use the marquee tool to drag a square over the area
(shift-drag). Then under the Select menu take Transform Selection.
Rotate the select marque. You can type 45 into the little box at the top
to make it perfect. Press Enter. Now in Select, take Inverse. Press Delete.
Thats it in a nutshell..........
Yep.
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For the yellow border, after you press delete, go to Select and
click on Inverse. Now go to the color palatte and select the yellow
color that you want to use. Now go to Edit....Stroke. In the window
that opens, select Outside, then you need to figure out how many
pixels you need to obtain the size border you want to use.....start
with something like 30 px.
Talker |
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| | | Talker | |
| | Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:30 am Post subject: Re: Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. | |
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:19:03 -0500, Talker <Talker@thegood.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:37:30 -0500, John <nohj@droffats.ten> wrote:
DB wrote:
My problem, Im trying to make a little sign for the car...... like "Baby
On Board".... I want to tak an image...... take a diamond shape from it
and then put a border around the image.
Open the image. Use the marquee tool to drag a square over the area
(shift-drag). Then under the Select menu take Transform Selection.
Rotate the select marque. You can type 45 into the little box at the top
to make it perfect. Press Enter. Now in Select, take Inverse. Press Delete.
Thats it in a nutshell..........
Yep.
For the yellow border, after you press delete, go to Select and
click on Inverse. Now go to the color palatte and select the yellow
color that you want to use. Now go to Edit....Stroke. In the window
that opens, select Outside, then you need to figure out how many
pixels you need to obtain the size border you want to use.....start
with something like 30 px.
Talker
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I noticed that by selecting Outside, you get a yellow border, but
the pointy edges of the diamond are rounded off. You have to select
Inside in order to get a pointy edge. That means that you need to
make the diamond bigger so that when you add the yellow border inside
the diamond shape, you won't cover over the subject's face.
Talker |
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| | | John | |
| | Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:47 am Post subject: Re: Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. | |
Talker wrote:
| Quote: | I noticed that by selecting Outside, you get a yellow border, but
the pointy edges of the diamond are rounded off. You have to select
Inside in order to get a pointy edge. That means that you need to
make the diamond bigger so that when you add the yellow border inside
the diamond shape, you won't cover over the subject's face.
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Thanks for filling in what I omitted, Talker. And I think the original
poster is looking for a rounded edge such as those found on the signs he
mentioned, so all is good! Most excellent!
jjs |
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| | | Joel | |
| | Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: Re: Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. | |
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"DB" <Daveb007@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Firstly.... apologies for not getting back...but its new PC time and i've
had boatloads of problems with this new tin box...
Also....many thanks for all who tried to help me....... Guess What ?? Im
still stuck......
My problem, Im trying to make a little sign for the car...... like "Baby On
Board".... I want to tak an image...... take a diamond shape from it and
then put a border around the image.
Thats it in a nutshell..........
If i have a picture and then crop it,,,,,,, thats fine...... but its the
wrong shape...... I have followed the advice given.... but it rotates the
image -45 degrees...... that would be fine if the image needed rotating -
but it doesnt. It only the "crop shape" or whatever you call it....
I know it can be done as i did it by accident last week and cant remember
how i did it.....
Imagine you have a portrait pic, then you want to make a diamond shape cut
from it, you will want the portarit to still be the same way up....... but I
want the canvas to be diamond shaped with the image still looking at me...
Im not very good at explaining myself but i hope you kind folk out there
sort of understand me...
Thanks again
Dave
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I am glad you are back, cuz it's a nice thing for the original to come
back to update the report.
Me? I don't do diamond, but I don't see there should be any problem
getting the diamond shape. Here is what I have in mind.
1. Photoshop may have some diamond shape symbol, or at least there should be
some FONT with diamond shape. If you can't find anything available on your
system, then there should be thousands available on internet, and you should
be able to GOOGLE for some.
2. Now, after you got the diamond shape loaded or typed on Photohop, this is
what you may need.
a. Turn it into MASK (BLACK)
b. Then use MASK to get your image inside or outseide of the Diamond Shape
MASK
Of course you may be able to use Select and CUT command, but why use CUT
when you have the chance to learn some advance command like MASKING. |
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| | | DB | |
| | Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. | |
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Got it sussed now... many thnaks for all the help....... what i did was as
mentioned in above post...then Edit/stroke/width...7....colour....
yellow.....
hey presto..... the sign i was after.......yippee.....
SOrted...
MANY MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE
))))))))))))))
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| Quote: | "DB" <Daveb007@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Firstly.... apologies for not getting back...but its new PC time and i've
had boatloads of problems with this new tin box...
Also....many thanks for all who tried to help me....... Guess What ?? Im
still stuck......
My problem, Im trying to make a little sign for the car...... like "Baby
On
Board".... I want to tak an image...... take a diamond shape from it and
then put a border around the image.
Thats it in a nutshell..........
If i have a picture and then crop it,,,,,,, thats fine...... but its the
wrong shape...... I have followed the advice given.... but it rotates the
image -45 degrees...... that would be fine if the image needed rotating -
but it doesnt. It only the "crop shape" or whatever you call it....
I know it can be done as i did it by accident last week and cant remember
how i did it.....
Imagine you have a portrait pic, then you want to make a diamond shape
cut
from it, you will want the portarit to still be the same way up.......
but I
want the canvas to be diamond shaped with the image still looking at
me...
Im not very good at explaining myself but i hope you kind folk out there
sort of understand me...
Thanks again
Dave :)
I am glad you are back, cuz it's a nice thing for the original to come
back to update the report.
Me? I don't do diamond, but I don't see there should be any problem
getting the diamond shape. Here is what I have in mind.
1. Photoshop may have some diamond shape symbol, or at least there should
be
some FONT with diamond shape. If you can't find anything available on
your
system, then there should be thousands available on internet, and you
should
be able to GOOGLE for some.
2. Now, after you got the diamond shape loaded or typed on Photohop, this
is
what you may need.
a. Turn it into MASK (BLACK)
b. Then use MASK to get your image inside or outseide of the Diamond Shape
MASK
Of course you may be able to use Select and CUT command, but why use CUT
when you have the chance to learn some advance command like MASKING.
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| | | KatWoman | |
| | Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. | |
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"DB" <Daveb007@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Fj1jk.33710$E41.27631@text.news.virginmedia.com...
| Quote: | Firstly.... apologies for not getting back...but its new PC time and i've
had boatloads of problems with this new tin box...
Also....many thanks for all who tried to help me....... Guess What ?? Im
still stuck......
My problem, Im trying to make a little sign for the car...... like "Baby
On Board".... I want to tak an image...... take a diamond shape from it
and then put a border around the image.
Thats it in a nutshell..........
If i have a picture and then crop it,,,,,,, thats fine...... but its the
wrong shape...... I have followed the advice given.... but it rotates the
image -45 degrees...... that would be fine if the image needed rotating -
but it doesnt. It only the "crop shape" or whatever you call it....
I know it can be done as i did it by accident last week and cant remember
how i did it.....
Imagine you have a portrait pic, then you want to make a diamond shape
cut from it, you will want the portarit to still be the same way up.......
but I want the canvas to be diamond shaped with the image still looking at
me...
Im not very good at explaining myself but i hope you kind folk out there
sort of understand me...
Thanks again
Dave
|
very entertaining
sorta like the 3 stooges....JOHN gave the BEST answer FIRST reply
watching you all make such simple task into so much work!!
to the OP >>what an interesting workaround >Kudos for using the grey matter
A Rube Goldberg award to Joel
"Google for diamond shape" lol
CROP TOOL FOLKS
put cursor near corner
hold finger on shift and rotate
it will click in 45 degree steps
or as John #1 marquee tool |
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| | | DB | |
| | Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:26 pm Post subject: Re: Diamond Shape Cut Out.. 26 june 2008 ..... Read me.. | |
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Just shows you....... many ways to skin a cat.........
and which way did you help KatWoman...... oh,,, you didnt.....
Im grateful to all help as it helped me to reach my goal....... tell me
where you live Katwoman and i'll send you a special sign....lol
Cheers
Dave :)
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"DB" <Daveb007@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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Firstly.... apologies for not getting back...but its new PC time and i've
had boatloads of problems with this new tin box...
Also....many thanks for all who tried to help me....... Guess What ?? Im
still stuck......
My problem, Im trying to make a little sign for the car...... like "Baby
On Board".... I want to tak an image...... take a diamond shape from it
and then put a border around the image.
Thats it in a nutshell..........
If i have a picture and then crop it,,,,,,, thats fine...... but its the
wrong shape...... I have followed the advice given.... but it rotates the
image -45 degrees...... that would be fine if the image needed rotating -
but it doesnt. It only the "crop shape" or whatever you call it....
I know it can be done as i did it by accident last week and cant remember
how i did it.....
Imagine you have a portrait pic, then you want to make a diamond shape
cut from it, you will want the portarit to still be the same way
up....... but I want the canvas to be diamond shaped with the image still
looking at me...
Im not very good at explaining myself but i hope you kind folk out there
sort of understand me...
Thanks again
Dave :)
very entertaining
sorta like the 3 stooges....JOHN gave the BEST answer FIRST reply
watching you all make such simple task into so much work!!
to the OP >>what an interesting workaround >Kudos for using the grey
matter
A Rube Goldberg award to Joel
"Google for diamond shape" lol
CROP TOOL FOLKS
put cursor near corner
hold finger on shift and rotate
it will click in 45 degree steps
or as John #1 marquee tool
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