Diagonal Lines

[Nicky]

I don't have access to Illustrator so I am stuck using Photoshop at the moment. I would like to divide a rectangle with a diagonal line and have each half a different color. This is very easy to do in Illustrator but somehow the method evades me in Photoshop. Can someone help please?

[vargz]

Ok this one is off the top of my head...there should be a better method.

Select the polygonal lasso tool. Create a line along the top edge, then down one of the sides then diagonally to connect to your starting point. You will have a triangular selection. Create a new layer and fill the selection with a colour. Repeat for the other half of the rectangle.

[Jeremy W.]

If you want to keep the line as a vector element, create a line, click at the top corner (guides may be useful), hold down shift and drag to the bottom corner.

You can then merge your two layers if you want, or just use them as separate selection layers.

That may be too vague. The above solution would work as well though, just giving you options

J

[Technosailor]

If the rectangle is square, use a 3 sided polygon tool and hold down shift. Drag out the triangle to whatever size you want. Duplicate the layer and flip vertically and horizontally.Fill each triangle with the color of your choice. You might have to adjust the layer positioning to fit them together.

[Nicky]

Thanks everyone. I ended up using the selction tool and free transform. Pah, this is a new system so I haven't got round to installing Illustrator yet but boy I do miss it!

[theGuest]

aaa... call me radically extreme, but... isn't this as simple as using the line tool to draw the diagnal line across your rectangle, then using the Paint Bucket to fill each half with your desired colour... it's not a complicated task... really...

aaa the simple tools...