Now we are going to create a pyramid using Adobe® Photoshop. This tutorial needs some very basic knowledge in Photoshop. This can also be implemented to CS2 version. Open a new image, 450 X 550. Go to the menu and select: View --> Show --> Grid .
Now goto View --> Snap . Select View --> Snap To --> Grid.
Then select Edit --> Preferences --> Guides and then goto Grid & Slices tab and enter 1 Inch for gridline. Go to the Tool Bar and then select the Rectangle Tool or press the letter U on your keyboard. Now make sure that the option Paths is selected in the Options Bar: Now change the Path Tool and then track the way along the grid and create a pyramid model.
The next step is to activate the Move Tool in the Tool Bar. Make sure that Show Bounding Box in the Options Bar is selected. Move your cursor close to one of the corner points until it changes into a double arrow and press and hold your left mouse button and rotate the shape until you have something like this.
Double click on this shape to finalize the action and turn 'Show Bounding Box' off ('Show Transform Controls' if you use Photoshop CS2).By only drawing the base we're able to draw the rest of the pyramid as soon as we know where to mark its top. For that you need to remember the center point of any of the virtual diagonals Rotating the shape and changing its perspective hasn't moved the original center of our rectangular shape, so it will still be exactly on the vertical guide going through the middle of our shape, so keep that in mind when you mark the top in our next step.
Only two sides of the pyramid will be visible at any time, so we're only going to add the two sides marked with points C,D,T and D,B,T. The problem with Photoshop is that it only allows us to snap the pen tool to guides and grids, not to single points that don't lay on guides or gridlines, so we have to approach this in a different way to get all sides well aligned. First duplicate the shape we have now by dragging and dropping the layer twice on the Create a New layer icon in the layers palette.
Now select the Path Selection Tool in the Tool Bar and make a path for the B,C side of the pyramid. Click with the mouse on the shape in your document window to activate it. All four points that are part of this shape will now be visible. Now grab the Pen Too. Once we have our two sides the way we want them, make the top layer visible again by clicking on the empty area in front of it where we normally would see the icon; the icon will re-appear.
To end up, Draw a square shape which serves as the base of your pyramid. Rotate this shape so that we will see two sides in our final pyramid. Resize it to create perspective by pulling down the middle top control point. Duplicate the base shape twice. Delete and move some points to the top to create the two sides . The pattern will fill the whole document and we need to "clip" it to the layer underneath, so that the texture will only affect the pixels of that particular layer. Now make the grey base shape at the bottom invisible by clicking on the icon in front of it, because we don't need it anymore and its edges will be slightly visible if we leave it visible
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