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I was browsing the Strava challenges page and noticed the following design:

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I like the way the chevron design has a color masking effect on the circles.

I imagine illustrator would be a better software choice due to its superior vector tools, but how would one achieve this effect in Photoshop?

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There are many ways, but I might use Clipping mask to mask out everything that is outside the circles.

I made one arrow and duplicated it. I also Linked the arrows, so that they can be moved freely, as shown in the gif below.

Yellow arrow is in a clipping mask with Circle - RED and Red arrow is in clipping mask with Circle - BLACK.

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  • wouldnt this eliminate the vector nature on print?
    – joojaa
    Aug 19, 2014 at 13:27
  • Thanks, even though you have uses raster shapes I find the same method can be used with vector shapes. Could you explain how you constructed the arrows? What's a good way of doing it with vectors?
    – harryg
    Aug 19, 2014 at 13:38
  • @harryg Harryg, The way I made the arrows is nearly identical to this answer. The only real difference being that I used Rectangle tool for the shape.
    – Joonas
    Aug 19, 2014 at 14:42

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