Creating Tappered Corners on Boxes!

[sword7]

All I want to do is taper my corners on boxes does anyone know how to do this??

Here is an example from ms paint:



Thanks for your help, i have wasted an entire day trying to do this.

 

[ibis]

have to be more specific.
what kind of box? drawn? cartboard box?

 

[sword7]

just flat 2d squares like the one i showed you. I want to be able to 'cut' the corners and but still keep the stroke so it makes a slight diagonal.

 

[Fatboy73]

Are you working in paint or Photoshop?

 

[sword7]

photoshop. I know this might be super easy to do but it just eludes me. Funny, as it takes me all of 10s in MS Paint to come up with what im looking for, crudely

 

[Fatboy73]

well in Photoshop you can hold the shift button down with pencil tool and make polygons all day long. You can either click and drag for a straight line or click move and click again to play connect the dots. Either method will work for what you want.

 

[ibis]

hold shift and draw your shape with the brush tool.
alternatively, clickonce on the canvas with brush tool and release it,
hold shift and click desired point to make strait line.
i would definitely do anything like this in coreldraw.

sorry, fatboy, i have just seen you have already answer this.my bad.

 

[Stric9]

Pen tool ftw!!!


If you want just the outline then you can draw the shape and stroke it with the pencil brush. Or set fill to zero and stroke the shape.

 

[sword7]

Thanks guys for your help, I will try it out!

I'll be back. . .

 

[sword7]

So I have figured out how to do it....

What I would do is first make an rounded corner square, which is great because now I can use accurate pixel x pixel to get the precise size I want. I then apply a stroke, then select the eraser tool, I was able to get some sord of triangle shape for it which gave me the angle to tapper the corners.

I couldnt get the bottom two corners of my square because you need to rotate the triangle brush around a bit... And.. I was able to rotate it but the brush doesn't show rotation, just the same regular triangle.. so it made a lot of guess work.

Anyway just thought I would share my breakthrough haha and if someone could tweak my technique to be a little better please reply and let me know!!

 

[treeofapples]

good info

 

[agentmoeller]

If you have Illustrator, it would be a lot easier.