# Problems with a tutorial **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [July 13, 2003, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473 "2003-07-13T08:57:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@pom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pom)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/1 "2003-07-13T08:57:35Z")
In my effort to become a soulless trendy designer, I was doing this tute posted by Sintax: [http://www.systemdark.com/academy/photoshop/trendwhore/index.php](http://www.systemdark.com/academy/photoshop/trendwhore/index.php) I have a problem with the second part of step 2: how can I “nudge the selection down a bit” (actually, I don’t even know what it means in English…). Can anybody help? pom 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/2 "2003-07-13T09:01:26Z")
Easy! Select the object/layer you want to “nudge” (-means move…kinda) and with the move tool selected (the black arrow) use your arrow keys to nudge it anywhere you want! See when you do this look in the history panel! The last thing you did was “nudge”! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/3 "2003-07-13T09:10:05Z")
Errr… Hemm… Yes, of course, I knew that! :sure: Thanks Syko, I was convinced that somehow I had to alter the selection, and I just couldn’t get it right :beam: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/4 "2003-07-13T09:12:27Z")
I’m sure you did! No Problem! =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/5 "2003-07-13T09:17:58Z")
All right all right, I have another question 🙂 : step 4, I have to use the “cutout method”… which is?? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/6 "2003-07-13T10:00:20Z")
use the polygonal lasso tool, choose the part you want to cut then press delete. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/7 "2003-07-13T10:07:27Z")
i forgot to tell that polygonal lasso tool isn’t the only thing. Depends on the situation. Sometimes it’s better to use the simple rectengular tool or elliptical or whatever that makes marquee :). But in your case (as i saw) it is best to use the polygonal lasso. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/8 "2003-07-13T10:21:43Z")
it’s me again. I went through a tutorial a bit and there is something that’s really bothering me in the second part of step 2 (crystals). You have to duplicate (ok), change the lightness level (ok), then you have to select the layer and nudge down a bit (ok), and press delete to have a 3d look (?!?). How is that possible because if you press delete while you have the layer selected, the layer will dissapear and not make some 3d effect. Please explain? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/9 "2003-07-13T11:07:47Z")
Thanks Luksy, I though it was some special technique I didn’t know about 😛 And concerning the 3D look, deleting part of the spike will reveal the black spike under a bit, giving it the 3D look 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/10 "2003-07-13T15:26:01Z")
cutout note: there is also a filter effect named “cutout”! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-with-a-tutorial/25473/11 "2003-07-14T09:23:01Z")
yes but it’s not it. In the tut, he just has to cut a piece of layer.