Splitting an image into equal parts.

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Yaz
May 7, 2007
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Hi all,

I am attempting to make a reproduction of the Irish flag and I’m having trouble splitting my original canvas into equal sections for the flag’s colors.

Can someone provide me with some tips on how to accomplish this?

Thank you

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edjh
May 7, 2007
Yaz wrote:
Hi all,

I am attempting to make a reproduction of the Irish flag and I’m having trouble splitting my original canvas into equal sections for the flag’s colors.

Can someone provide me with some tips on how to accomplish this?
Thank you
You can set guides wherever you want by entering a value into Vied>New Guide. You could enter 33.3% and 66.6% for instance. Set View>Snap To>Guides. Run appropriate rectangular marquees and fill with color.

There are other ways of course.


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Yaz
May 9, 2007
On May 7, 3:48 pm, edjh wrote:

You can set guides wherever you want by entering a value into Vied>New Guide. You could enter 33.3% and 66.6% for instance. Set View>Snap To>Guides. Run appropriate rectangular marquees and fill with color.
There are other ways of course.

Thank you very much!
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pwnies
May 30, 2007
On May 7, 9:55 am, Yaz wrote:
Hi all,

I am attempting to make a reproduction of the Irish flag and I’m having trouble splitting my original canvas into equal sections for the flag’s colors.

Can someone provide me with some tips on how to accomplish this?
Thank you

I often do this by editing the spacing of the grid. To do this, go to edit-preferences-grids and guides. From there you can specify how the grid is placed based on percentages of the image. It’s better to use guides if you only have 3 or 4 divisions to make, but if you need to make 5+ equal divisions this might be easier as it will divide up the entire image all at once. To make the grid appear, go to view-extras- grid, or press CTRL+’ on windows (probably apple+’ on a mac).
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jenelisepasceci
May 31, 2007
pwnies wrote:

On May 7, 9:55 am, Yaz wrote:
Hi all,

I am attempting to make a reproduction of the Irish flag and I’m having trouble splitting my original canvas into equal sections for the flag’s colors.

Can someone provide me with some tips on how to accomplish this?
Thank you

I often do this by editing the spacing of the grid. To do this, go to edit-preferences-grids and guides. From there you can specify how the grid is placed based on percentages of the image. It’s better to use guides if you only have 3 or 4 divisions to make, but if you need to make 5+ equal divisions this might be easier as it will divide up the entire image all at once. To make the grid appear, go to view-extras- grid, or press CTRL+’ on windows (probably apple+’ on a mac).

Another option would be to start with an image 1/3 the final size, fill with the first color (green), then use the canvas size command at 200% to duplicate the size with the second color as fill (white) and once more at 150 % with the third color as fill (orange).

Peter

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