Help with Photoshop technique that I'm assuming uses paths

[Kristopher]

ITWorks, a guy that is on the ultrashockforums (and maybe is here, dont know) has a really cool website:

http://www.itworks.com.pt/

My question is I can not for the life of me figure out how to bend a long rectangle, like he did with the green one on his splash page. If you enter his site, the background of it has the same effect, but all of the rectangles have it this time.


Anyone know how to do this? I'm assuming it has to do with paths, but I'm not very good with them so some guidance would be cool.

Thanks.

[Mohadeb]

You can do this effect easily in Freehand and export it into Photoshop or Flash if you wanted to.

Just make the lines with the angle. Than add the round to the intersection.

Here (http://ryan.soward.com/Curved_Line.zip) is an EPS of the first example.

[simplistik]

same w/ Illustrator, make your lines going the direction you want then go to Filter>Stylize>Round Corners

[Kristopher]

same w/ Illustrator, make your lines going the direction you want then go to Filter>Stylize>Round Corners
hmm... thanks. didnt know that.

[Kristopher]

Been toying around with this... And when I do Stylize>Round Corners, all corners are rounded, not just where the lines meet. (I'm assuming you have two seperate lines and then join them... somehow ... but I dont know how.)

[foodpk]

You can just create a line that's shaped that way with the pen tool. Select a brush that's solid and like 20 pixels thick. Then click on the paths tab and there, right click on the path that you made and select stroke path. So now you will have something that looks like that, only the end and the beginning of the line is rounded, but you can cut that off easily.

[mlk]

SOmeone a while ago asked the exact same question about the exact same site: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69747

and it was thoroughly answered, the methods are in it...