Damien Symonds

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.

No, you have to have the group selected.

That's odd. May I see a screenshot?

Oh gee @SarahWyche, you have a MUCH bigger problem. Please follow this all the way to its end: https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html Once you've fixed that, we'll talk about moire.

@Falon, what do you think?

I'd start by copying a chunk of the photo with the triangular sign on it, then with Grids to help me, distort it back to a fairly even shape. Then put the text on it: Then fiddle with the text colour so it's more plausible. Black ain't right, of course. Here, I used darkish grey, on Multiply mode: Then group those two layers, move them back into place, lower the opacity of the group, and distort it again so it fits neatly over the real triangle: Then turn off the spare triangle layer (or delete it entirely). Then rasterize the type layer, make it a smart object layer instead, and apply a little blur so it's plausible:

But the Bridge Class would probably be a wiser investment of your learning time.

Well, ok.

I'm so sorry, I don't know. Other people have asked me this too. I haven't found any information telling me specifically how well the Channel Mixer part of it works.

Sorry about the delay. Had to pick up the kids from school. I've never found, or heard of, a thorough way to do this with Bridge. Funnily, good ol' FastStone does it in a snap. If you don't have it installed, it's worth doing for this purpose. It's small, and fast to install. Once you install it, you just navigate to your folder of jpegs that you're ready to upload, select them all, then go to Tools>Remove JPEG Metadata. The only problem is that it even removes your copyright info. But since you've watermarked the images, I don't see that that's a problem.

Hi Stacey, are they full-res files, or just web-sized proofs?