: Photoshop - cut and move part of a shape layer In photoshop, i have a "speech bubble" of sorts. I need to be able to move the little triangle bit of the bubble left, right, and to the
In photoshop, i have a "speech bubble" of sorts.
I need to be able to move the little triangle bit of the bubble left, right, and to the side.
Then "rejoin" it with the rectangle, and apply all the gradent/bevel effects of the original.
photoshop has a selector tool, but i cannot seem to cut, coppy, delete with it - actually, i do not understand why the rectangle selector exists (unless maybe there is a market for people who like pretty transient rectangles?)
So, for pictures -
this is the intial image i want to move around:
this is the image with all the stuff removed, i just want to move that triangle around!!
And then of course reapply the effects that i disabled. I imagine this is a super simple job - how do i do this?
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Since you already have this as a shape layer, you can easily select the points (Direct Selection Tool) and hold shift to move your triangle area.
This shape would actually take very little time to recreate, so I suggest you draw it from scratch:
Draw a round corner rectangle using the Rounded Rectangle Tool
Draw a triangle using the Polygon Tool
Join both shapes together (you can do this by copy-pasting the triangle on the rectangle layer, for example).
Apply your gradient.
Now you can move the triangle (use the Path Selection Tool to do this) around the rectangle and the gradient will be applied to the entire new shape.
The problem is that you're trying to manipulate a Shape. You have to rasterize the shape first. Right click on the layer of the shape in the Layer list and choose "Raterize". Then use the rectangle marquee tool to move the point around. The layer effects will be applied automatically.
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