Thread: [Tutorial] Making a Folding Circle

May be you find this kind of tutorial on other sites but I have written it myself for the first time.


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Step 1:
Create a new document of any size and draw a circle in there.


Step 2:
Ctrl + Click the layer to make the selection and choose the Polygonal Lasso Tool and also choose the "Substract From Selection" Tool from the top menue

Step 3:
Now cut the selection as shown in the image below




Now right click and select "Layer Via Cut". It will cut the selection from the rest of the circle.

Step 4:
Now select the layer of the top part of circle and press Ctrl T and right click > Flip Horizontal ... again Right click > Flip Vertical. It will give you an image something like this.

Put the TOP part's layer above of the bottom's part of the circle.



Step 5:
Go to Layer > Layer Style > Gradient Overlay and choose the gradient of these colors



Use Drop Shadow with following settings



After doing the above settings, your image should look like this



Step 6:
Now adjust the top part and fit it correctly. and your folding circle is ready

Here is my image



Please do try this tutorial and let me know your result.

This is a great tutorial Jani. Gonna add it to my list of tutorials too try. I have heaps now for Photoshop. Just gotta get round to trying some. Id love to be able to use photoshop well.

Whoa, nice idea and nice tutorial, I'll try it a.s.a.p

cant find Polygonal Lasso Tool

Originally Posted by cmba138G

cant find Polygonal Lasso Tool

Just press L and Polygonal Lasso Tool will be active, then you can see on the Tools window that which one is that tool

Whoa! nice share.. thanks for this one!

Originally Posted by Jani

May be you find this kind of tutorial on other sites but I have written it myself for the first time.


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Step 1:
Create a new document of any size and draw a circle in there.


Step 2:
Ctrl + Click the layer to make the selection and choose the Polygonal Lasso Tool and also choose the "Substract From Selection" Tool from the top menue

Step 3:
Now cut the selection as shown in the image below




Now right click and select "Layer Via Cut". It will cut the selection from the rest of the circle.

Okay, I get this far and then Layer Via Cut is not an available option.

Did you put your mouse on the circle and then right click?

It should be there.

Originally Posted by Jani

Did you put your mouse on the circle and then right click?

It should be there.

It's there, it's just not selectable.

May be you deselected the layer that's why it is not selectable.

Trying doing it again and this time keep the layer selection ON;

Originally Posted by Jani

May be you deselected the layer that's why it is not selectable.

Trying doing it again and this time keep the layer selection ON;

How? I don't think I turned anything off...

At this stage



May be you have deselected the box that's why it cannot cut the layer.

If it is not the case I don't know what went wrong on your side

Originally Posted by Jani

At this stage



May be you have deselected the box that's why it cannot cut the layer.

If it is not the case I don't know what went wrong on your side

If I have deselected the box, how did I do it? And how do I not do it so that I can cut the layer?

May be you pressed Ctrl D (it deselects the object).

If you can see this kind of box, it means you haven't press ctrl D

Originally Posted by Jani

May be you pressed Ctrl D (it deselects the object).

If you can see this kind of box, it means you haven't press ctrl D

Well, I certainly didn't press ctrl-D.

But mine doesn't look quite like that. The dotted lines go around the triangle that I made with the lasso, not around the circle.

Red Hot Mama added 19 Minutes and 22 Seconds later...

Thanks for all of your extra help, btw.

I will have to check it by doing that step again. I am not at my PC now, will let you know if I understand what is the cause of the problem.

nice share.. thanks for this one!

Nice tutorial there buddy! That looks really cool! Thanks for sharing!