I want to make a collage of parts of three images (nothing complicated: just triangles slightly apart will do). I can crop images into triangles by scaling the images, but I need the images to stay upright. Can someone please tell me how to get the desired effect? I have been doing FW 8 's tut with the banner and the slant effect hoping it would get me on the right track, but failed miserably. All help will be greatly appreciated. -- Regards, Adriana (put the rubbish out if you need to reach me by email)
crop along slanted lines
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Hi all, I'm designing a phone app, and a styleguide for the design, which require all the elements to be pixel perfect and add up to the screen dimension. There are 2 problems I run into is how to measure text in Fireworks CS3: 1) Fireworks CS3 measure text in point, not pixel. I use an online converter but it doesn't quite work. (For example, 17point = 22.666 pixel. Should I just round it up to 23?) 2) Web text is measured based on the em square, not the size of the character itself. Is there a way to find out the em square size in Fireworks? (I thought the blue bounding box when the text is selected is the em square, but I tried taking screenshot and measure it, and it turned out that it's not the case). So, to sum it up, what procedure should I follow to measure text in a pixel perfect design in Fireworks CS3? Thanks.
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crop along slanted lines
by A.Translator » Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:45:15 GMT
Re: crop along slanted lines
by XmasPudding » Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:53:57 GMT
Not sure I get what you're trying to do but can you cut the triangles out using the polygon lassoo tool and then paste them onto a new canvas in the chosen arrangement?
Re: crop along slanted lines
by A.Translator » Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:54:37 GMT
I give that a try, thanks. -- Regards, Adriana (put the rubbish out if you need to reach me by email)
Re: crop along slanted lines
by Sthane Bergeron » Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:33:14 GMT
Draw vector triangles with the polygon tool (not the polygon lasso... this is not Photoshop ;-), fill them with white and use them to mask your images. That way you can resize the triangles at will and move the masked image within them without ever deleting any pixels. -- Sthane Bergeron reach :: connect :: communicate www.webfocusdesign.com personal: www.pixelyzed.com
Re: crop along slanted lines
by A.Translator » Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:37:24 GMT
That does the trick! Thank you. -- Regards, Adriana (put the rubbish out if you need to reach me by email)
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