For those who know photoshop well please help me.?

Question

How can i transform a pic into a triangle or a half circular like a crescent or other shapes? i tried skew disort and etc. but it doesnt work. are there other ways?
I have a pic and i want to cut it like triangle but with a circular bottom. i hope u understand.

Please help me. thx.

Answer 1

Hate to ask but ... which version of photoshop?

You can create shapes (stars, pointers, etc) and you can make a circle. You can overlap (merge, select) and then having copied your image use "paste into" so the image fits inside your selection.

If it were me, I'd make the triangle using transform. Then I'd hold my shift button (or alt or ctl, figger it out) and use the marquee tool to make add the bottom curve. .... now your shape is surrounded by the marching ants (selected).
copy your image .. and use "paste into" which is right next to paste under the edit tab.

Should work fine.

As ever with photoshop, y'gotta tinker some, but you'll get there.

Answer 2

There are many ways to do it. But one way that would probably work on any photoshop version:
Would be to draw a triangle or what ever shape choose using the pen tool.
(for example) Create a path in the shape of a triangle using the pen tool. When your done go to your path window and double click the work path layer to save it from a work path to a path. Name the layer if you like "triangle for example".
Go to the Background layer in your layer window and do a command A (on a mac) Ctrl A ( on a PC) to create a selection around the whole image.
Then do a command or ctrl C to copy the image.
Then go to your path window and command or ctrl double click the path you name "triangle" to activate it to a selection.
Go back to your layers menu and create a new layer.
Then go to the edit menu and do a "paste into". The image should appear inside the triangle.
Then you can go to the edit menu and transform it. Scale it down to fit as much of the image as you can inside the triangle. When scaling the image hold down the shift key so not to distort the image.
Then go back to the layers window and click on the background layer and create a new layer between the background layer and the triangle layer.
Go to the edit menu and fill it with white so you have a white backgound or what ever color you want In between the 2 layers.
At this point if like you can go back to the triangle layer and create a drop shadow or some other effects by going to the layers menu. Or even add a type layer on a layer above the triangle layer.
I always save a layered copy of the file so I can go back and easily edit any file. After you save the layer file.
Go to the layers menu and flatten the image.
Save it. I hope this makes sense. I work in photoshop all day long for years. I run an imaging department with 4 other graphic artist so this should work. Good luck!