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I’d like to create some "pie slice" shaped masks to place and mask images rotated around a CD/DVD. Any links or suggestions as to how to go about doing this?
Let’s assume 5 images each taking 72 degrees of the pie.
Any feedback appreciated. – jim
Jim,
Start by drawing a Circle with the Elliptical Marquee Tool (Shift/Ctrl/Drag from center of your circle – lay down Guide Lines to hit the center) that matches the scale diameter of your CD. I’d Fill this Selection with a color that allows you to see your Grid Lines (mine are blue, so a light yellow works well). You now have a yellow circle that matches your CD. Here, I made a new Layer, just so I didn’t mess anything up. Choose the Measure Tool (under Eyedropper) and click-drag from the center of your circle toward the upper right quadrant. Watch the Info screen, until you are at the edge of the circle and the angle in Info reads 72 – release the mouse/stylus. Now, don’t click any other tools, until you added guides that hit that point. Then choose the Pen Tool and start on that point, then click on the horizontal center Guide at the circumference of the circle, at the center of the circle, and finally back at the starting point 72 degrees from horizontal. You now have a path. Even though you can’t print the entire arc of this pie, you might want to go to the Pen Tool, and choose the Add Point Pen (with the little +), click in the approximate center of the versign, or chord of the arc. Drag that point to the circumference to complete the Path. Save it. Now, in the Path Options (little arrow upper right) choose Make Selection, and set feather to 0pxl. You now have your 72 degree pie. Save Selection. To use it, all you have to do is Edit>Transform>Rotate to whatever rotation you want. You might want to make a Mask that is basically the circle of the CD, then Rotate your Selection and Delete one slice at a time, saving each as a new Mask. I’d also fill in the spindle area, so I didn’t accidently print to that area of the CD.
Hunt
