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I'm trying to recreate this image enter image description here with help of a Rectangle Tool (U) and masks as it was suggested in chat room, but so far I was able to do it by adding three rectangles, where two of them were turned a bit for lower cuts. Still due to stroke on main triangle I was unable to get exactly same shape as on image above.

Could anyone provide maybe an article or link to a tutorial.

PS. Obviously I could just cut those parts off. I'm more interested in masks usage to achieve that.

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As mentioned in chat, I'd normally do something like this:

  • Create triangle (3 sided polygon, in Photoshop)
  • Give triangle a stroke
  • Create masks for corners (bottom ones 45 degrees to each side, you can hold Ctrl to make them rotate in intervals. masks in red in the image)

enter image description here

But looking at it again, you could actually use another triangle mask to get the same result. This would give you a very precise cut:

  • Create triangle
  • Give triangle a stroke
  • Create another triangle on top of it, centered
  • Use second triangle as mask

enter image description here

About how to use the mask, the quickest way I've found is to do the following:

  • Create the triangle with the border and convert it to a Smart Object (this is so you don't have more than one mask for the same shape at the same time).
  • Create the new triangle you want to use as mask and position it below the first one in the layers panel
  • You will notice that your second triangle is basically a mask by itself - it's a color background, masked with a triangle. All you need to do is drag that mask into your first triangle.

The layers in this image are: 1) The original triangle turned into a Smart Object, 2) the new black triangle with its own mask that gives it the shape, and 3) The result when you drag your triangle 2 mask to triangle 1.

enter image description here

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    CS2!? Is that the one they used to design posters in WW2? :P
    – Dom
    Mar 5, 2014 at 10:05
  • @Yisela here is link to what I have dropbox.com/s/q81qe6j5rx6a6ez/road-sign.psd. CC? You mean Adobe Creative Cloud?
    – Eugene
    Mar 9, 2014 at 0:09
  • @Eugene Sorry for the delay! Here it is: dropbox.com/s/zf6pldeql5x9t6t/road-sign.psd It took me a while to figure out how to move the mask in CC, but it's quite the same I had done in CS2. You create a new triangle with a mask, and then move the mask to the first one. I left the steps as invisible layers so you can see them.
    – Yisela
    Mar 11, 2014 at 20:24

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