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Now what you're going to want to do is grab your polygonal lasso tool. This is located as an option under the cowboy lasso tool. Click and drag to create your own custom polygonal shapes. Go ahead and create something as shown. It's important to note that when you hold down the Shift key you will get a perfect 180, 90 or 45 degree angle.

With the polygonal lasso tool you must make the end complete by reaching all the way around to get to the original start point where you'll see a small circle appear. Do this to close off the selection. Now that you've created a basic shape element, create a new layer in the layers palette by clicking on the new layer icon and then choose a foreground color such as grey or a blue to complement our global color theme. Dark grey is OK because what you're going to do is change the B boy modes in a few steps from now.

Now that you've created the first shape fill layer, drag it to the new layer icon to duplicate it. Now Ctrl click on the layer icon to select it with the army ants and choose a different foreground color from your picker in the toolbar (or swatch palette, etc.). Here I've chosen white...press alt backspace to fill this duplicate layer with the different color. Now go to your moVe tool and nudge it a few pixels 'off' of the original layer.

What you're going to do now is link these two layers together in the layers palette. Now go to Layer: Merge Linked or Ctrl/Cmd E.

Now these two have become one layer. Now it's time to start getting creative. Duplicate this new shape layer. You will use Ctrl 'T' or Edit: Free Transform a lot from now on. Remember that by using free transform you can alter it into 3-d with distort, skew and perspective by holding down the Ctrl/Cmd key on any of the 'handle's on the bounding box. You can easily skew or change the perspective of each shape into 3-D. Try dragging a corner handle down as shown; it's really easy.

Keep creating duplicate layers of the original and start skewing them in different ways with the free transform function.

After you've done a few of varying sizes, start changing the blending modes. You can also add a drop shadow to each (I hope you know how by now).  My complete Photoshop video tutorials training uncovers all sorts of powerful Photoshop features.