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Photoshop: How to do the crooked sides

Jan 28th, 2008
by admin.

kyh once asked me, how did I do the ‘crooked’ sides on my photos, so… here goes.

1. Open the picture you want to edit in Photoshop. Select the Polygonal Lasso Tool.

If it doesn’t show, right click on whatever Lasso tool is showing at that time, and choose Polygonal Lasso Tool.

2. Click on the outside of the picture and go around the side of the picture according to how you want the sides of your pictures to be “cut”. To set a point, just left click.

3. Once you’re done, click on the beginning point and it will show dotted lines like this:

4. And you’re almost done. Now you just need to copy, and open a new window (File -> New -> OK). Remember to copy before opening a new window, then Photoshop will open the new window according to how big the image you copied.

Then paste the picture on your new window, watermark it if you like, save it and you’re done! :)

p/s: If you’re wondering what’s on my neck, it’s actually an Iban “tattoo” drew using marker pen. :P

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12 Comments on “Photoshop: How to do the crooked sides”

  1. #1 Kopi Soh
    on Jan 28th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    Tankiu for lesson on crooked sides.

  2. #2 may
    on Jan 28th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    waaaa, got tutorial here summore… where’s Lesson #2?

  3. #3 angeles
    on Jan 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    sure it wasn’t a ‘bite’??

  4. #4 t-mo-t
    on Jan 28th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    waseh…
    wad is photoshop ah?
    where is it ah?

  5. #5 LB
    on Jan 28th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    Oooh, you clever boy you!! :-) I like that couch..

  6. #6 Giddy Tigress
    on Jan 28th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    wah…clap clap clap! bravo!!!
    And to have the picture taken upside down like that, just take a normal photo right side up, open the picture in photoshop and select transform > rotate 180 degrees :)

  7. #7 keeyit
    on Jan 28th, 2008 at 11:59 pm

    My friends love to use photoshop.. Hmm for me, I dun really change the photos that I capture using my camera. So normal Paint application is enough for me..

  8. #8 Chen
    on Jan 29th, 2008 at 1:12 am

    i tot tat was a love bite or kari kai leh..

  9. #9 Free
    on Jan 29th, 2008 at 4:47 am

    ZOMG. Just like that? I thought you used custom actions or something..XD

  10. #10 kyh
    on Jan 31st, 2008 at 12:02 am

    thank you so much for the lesson! will try that when i’m free… or when i’m not feeling lazy… :P

  11. #11 alvin
    on Jan 31st, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    that’s my couch..

  12. #12 Daniel
    on Feb 4th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

    Hey Ehon, I was wondering how you did that, now you could enlighten me on how to do those squiggle lines similar to the one on the header of this page.

    Take care of yourself and I’ll see you in Sydney at the end of the month

    Daniel

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