: How to cut a part of image in photoshop? I need to make the following image in Photoshop cs6 : What I did is made two circles, one with light green color the second with dark green color

@Jamie315

I don't think I really understood the description. If you want to make a circle just like the one in your first example, you could do it this way.


Draw a circle with the Ellipse tool. Make sure it's a Shape.
Cmd + C ( Copy ) - Makes a copy of the Path you just made for the Shape
Cmd + V ( Paste ) - Duplicates the Path
Cmd + T ( Free transform ) - To quickly make the new Path smaller than the original. This is all happening within a single Shape layer.
From the tool options: Subtract front shape and Merge shape components.
At this point you got the first circle. Lower its opacity, to make it a bit faded ( ...or change its color ). Then you can duplicate it with Cmd + J. Make sure to give the new ellipse 100% opacity or different color, so you can differentiate between them.
Now you can use the Pen tool, to draw a triangle from the center of the circle. Make sure it's a Shape.
Merge this triangle Shape layer with the second ellipse Shape layer. Select them both and Cmd + E.


This is only possible in later versions of PS. I believe CS 6 and higher. In case you can't merge shapes like this, at step 7 make sure you got the second ellipse Shape layer selected and that Pen tool is set to Path instead of Shape. This way you can draw additional paths inside the ellipse Shape layer, making this merging step unnecessary.
I just wanted to show both techniques just in case. Making separate shape layers and merging them can be way easier though.

Then do the same thing as before. From the tool options: Subtract front shape and Merge shape components.



In the gif below I have made guides to mark the center of the document. This is
so that I can easily draw the triangle from the center of the ellipse
object.

Note that I'm also using Alt and Shift
modifiers, when using Free transform and when I'm drawing the circles.

On windows, just replace Cmd with Ctrl and you
get the same result.

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@Nimeshi706

The Lasso tool already makes a selection so you shouldn't need to use the Quick Selection tool as well.

With the Lasso tool active increase the Feather value and make sure Anti-Aliasing is checked (in the Options bar). That will give you the smooth edges you need.

To create a mask instead of destructively deleting pixels, just make your selection and hit the mask button at the bottom of the layers panel (with the layer you want to mask selected).

All of that being said, you should really be creating this with shape layers instead of directly drawing and deleting pixels.

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@Martha945

What if you create a mask? Instead of deleting that portion you just change the color to the lighter green.

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