How is this done?

jeet · 07-15-2006, 03:28 PM

Hi,
Look at the v7n forum banner above. The arrow in it... How is that made in photoshop7?
Here's what I am doing but am not even close, infact far off...
Made a thick line using line tool.
Filter > Distort > zig-zag.
A window comes up asking for settings. I set: 25%, 3 ridges, (I have 3 styles here in drop down box at bottom.)
Clicked OK and a really stupid graphic is there staring at me.
Then I changed the percentage but still looks bad.

Please tell me how to do that.
Thank you.

DaveyBoy · 07-15-2006, 03:43 PM

Well i'm not sure exactly how Juggopop made it, but it looks like he's just cut it out from a rectangle of red, then added a second duplicate layer under it, merged then together and stroked them.

jeet · 07-15-2006, 04:36 PM

It's too neat to be cut out of a rectangle using mouse.
There's got to be a tool...

DaveyBoy · 07-15-2006, 04:42 PM

polygon lasso tool is easy to cut things out like he has done there.

DaveyBoy · 07-15-2006, 04:47 PM

Here's a quick one with the polygon lasso as i mentioned

jeet · 07-15-2006, 06:54 PM

Can you give me a little more detailed description about how you did it?
This looks just right!

DaveyBoy · 07-15-2006, 11:59 PM

1. Create a square of colour on a new layer.

2. Using the polygon lasso tool, draw your arrow design and keep it selected.

3. Now invert the selection (Select > Inverse) and press DEL or BACKSPACE.

4. Now add a stroke (Layer > Layer Style > Stroke) to your arrow layer.

5. Duplicate the layer and move the one behind down a few pixels (down or diagonal-down works)

6. Modify the pixels of the area shown if you need to.

7. Change the colour of the 2nd layer (Layer > Layer Style > Color Overlay)

8. Add an inner glow (Layer > Layer Style > Inner Glow) to the top layer to give it a nicer finish.

Juggo maybe does it different but that's basically how i created my example.

jeet · 07-16-2006, 03:13 AM

Ok, here's one I did. Why is my line distance all mismatched? At some places it's thick, at some others it's too thin. Not parallel like yours...

DaveyBoy · 07-16-2006, 05:15 AM

you need to take more care in drawing the shape if you want it all even etc. It looks a bit blocky there, did you have anti-aliasing checked or not?

jeet · 07-17-2006, 01:03 AM

No Anti alias was not checked... Plus I didn't draw a box firsst. Here's how I did it:

Selected polygon from tools,
Drew the shape,
Copy merge to new file,(transparent pixels).
Layer styles > Gradient overlay.

I wanted to change the color of gradient (layer styles) but could not figure out how...There's no color box in there.

Thanks

JuggoPop · 07-17-2006, 08:30 AM

I had a plain arrow made from the selection of arrows in the photoshop custom shape tool... I rotated it to an angle.

I copied a section of it and pasted it onto a new layer. did this a couple of times to get the angled parts of the arrow body, I drew in the straignt/level parts.

put a stroke around it, and pressed alt+ up arrow, left arrow, alt+ up arrow, left arrow, etc. until I had the depth I wanted.

Added a new stroke and a drop shadow...

adamx8 · 07-18-2006, 11:30 PM

If your good in Illustrator its very simple with the pen tool then just add a drop shadow and be done with it. Plus illustrator has 3-D rendering in the CS package. I know you asked about Photoshop, I just wanted to chime in for an alternative.

Adam