Diamond Shape Cut Out

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Jun 26, 2008
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This one might be easy to some but i cant do it…..

I have some pictures that I want to cut out some diamond shapes from them…. what i’m aiming to do is make some personalised signs for the back window of my car, the sort of thing you often see, such as baby on board etc…

I want to lift a diamond shaped section from an image, then over type some text i.e. Pillock on board……. ideally, i’d like to put a coloured border round the diamond shaped image…

Can any kind person give me a clue as to how to cut a diamond shape and then put a border to it.

Many Thanks

Dave 🙂
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TK
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Jun 27, 2008
"DB" wrote in message
This one might be easy to some but i cant do it…..

I have some pictures that I want to cut out some diamond shapes from them…. what i’m aiming to do is make some personalised signs for the back
window of my car, the sort of thing you often see, such as baby on board etc…

I want to lift a diamond shaped section from an image, then over type some text i.e. Pillock on board……. ideally, i’d like to put a coloured border
round the diamond shaped image…

Can any kind person give me a clue as to how to cut a diamond shape and then
put a border to it.

Many Thanks
Dave 🙂
There a number of ways to do this.
When you say a daimond like you see on warning signs in the backs of cars, are they not a square rotated 45 degrees?
Hit D on the keyboard to set you fore/background colours to black and white, will see why later.
You could do the same thing with the Rectangular marquee tool (M)and drag out a square, use the shift key to ensure you make a square. You can use the mouse to drag it into place.
To rotate the selection go to Image>Rotate Canvass>Arbitrary and input 45 degrees, doesn’t matter if it’s CW or CCW
Then invert (Select>Inverse) the selection and delete what remains outside the selection or use the Polygonal Lassoo tool to draw your shape ad delete what’s outside as with the Marquee method.
Adding the type would be the same no matter what method you used to create your shape with, hit T on the keyboard and start typing. Putting a border around the shape could be done with a Stroke. Make a selection of your shape, the easiest way would be to copy the shape layer (ctrl+J) and then remove the background, which should be white because you hit D earlier.
You could use the Magic wand tool for this.(W) to make the selection of the background.
This should select all the white in the background and in the diamond as well if you have any.
If you do just choose another background colour before you start. When you have deleted the background from the copied layer you won’t see any difference because you are seeing the background from the layer below, switch it off in the layers pallette with the eye icon.
You should now see your shape on it’s own layer without a backround. Ctrl+clicking on the layer icon will "load the selection" or select the shape and you should see the "marching ants."
To add a border to this shape you just go to Edit>Stroke, choose a colour, pixel width and where you want the srtoke to lie, inside, center or outside the selection.
Try them all, as where the stroke lies determines how the corners appear. Have fun!

TWK

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