Damien Symonds

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.

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.