Damien Symonds

What? What are you doing???? You don't need that part, you've already made your shape!!!!!! Just place the first image. Start here:

You're good to go now. Use this: https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/12/simple-storyboard-tutorial-part-2.html

Ah, right. #neverhappenswithwindows

No, I mean why were there marching ants at all?

Please help me understand why you keep posting these screenshots with marching ants?

Great. Ok, I hope I can explain this next step well enough ... Press U to get the Shape Tool, then click and hold on it to get the Line Tool. In the Options Bar you'll see where you can choose "Weight". Enter 6px there. Also in the Options bar (I can't give you a screenshot, because my version is different) you need to choose the option that says "Subtract from shape area". On mine I can hit the shortcut key - (dash/minus), maybe yours will do that too. At this point I suggest lowering the opacity of your green line layer so it's visible but fairly faint. Then return to your shape layer. Make sure you have the mask selected (a border around it in the layers panel). Then draw a line with your line tool following one of your green lines. Make sure you start and finish it OUTSIDE the truck shape. If it works properly, it will subtract that line from your black truck shape. If so, great! Repeat for the other lines.

Terrific. And what is that width? What size was your brush?

Terrific. And are those lines the exact width you'd like them to be?

Definitely. Well done. Now, can you add a blank layer on top, and use your brush tool (in red or green or yellow or something) to show me roughly how you'd like to divide it up into the individual photo pieces?

I'm SO sorry about the delayed reply. We had family visiting. I was afraid of this. The wheels aren't round. http://bezier.method.ac/

Totally ok. You couldn't fit a photo nicely into there anyway. May I see it without the marching ants? Now you have to plan the slices. How many photos do you intend to put in here?

Somehow you stopped the path then started it again. Terrific. Now you can turn off the "Layer 0" so that only the path layer is visible. Then may I see the whole screenshot?

No, sorry You've got the right approach, but it really needs to be all one layer.

Yes.

Oh, crap, sorry! No, you only needed to sketch it if it was coming from your own head. Since you already have a file, you need to trace it with the Pen Tool.

No, the size doesn't matter at all, that's one of the reasons to use the pen tool. May I see a screenshot, showing your layers panel?

Yes, I think so.

Looks ok to me.

Well, I figure the first step is to either sketch a truck shape (literally sketch it, pencil on paper) or find a truck photo you like that you can trace. Do you have one in mind?

Well, it requires the Pen Tool, have you used it before?

Is that ok?

I reckon a Levels layer, and move the black sliders on the green and blue channels to 50 and 30 respectively.

Sorry, can you clarify, which side of the bow do you like?

Maybe increase the blur just a tiny bit?

In my version (CS5) Distort wasn't available to me in the Edit>Transform> menu. Yours might be the same, I don't know. But it didn't matter, I alternated between Skew, Rotate and Scale, and achieved the same thing.