Red
This image was made entirely in Photoshop. I used the Marquee tool to isolate a rectangle. Then I filled it with this red color.
Next, I copied the image twice more by duplicating the layer. Now I have three layers.
I went to the top layer and with the Magic Wand tool set to ’1′, I clicked on the white area around the rectangle and using the Eraser tool I deleted all the white background.
I now inverted the selection using Select > Inverse, and then went to Edit > Transform > Rotate and rotated the image a few degrees.
Then with the Move tool highlighted, I pulled the red rectangle down the frame a little.
I did the same with the next layer highlighted I did the same thing.
Now I had three layers with three rectangles showing.
Type
The type layers are very easy to deal with. I just typed three separate sections of type. Then I moved them with the Move tool more or less over their respective rectangles.
Finally, I used the Edit > Transform > Rotate to rotate the type and align each by eye with the rectangle with which it is associated.
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Could you explain how to rotate the wording? I did Select All and it is not what I expected.
Thank you for your excellent question. I should have been clearer about describing how to deal with type.
It is not like other layers and you do not need to use Select > All. If you use Select > All it will detect an empty layer and you will not be able to rotate the text, as you have found.
Instead, just go straight to Edit > Transform > Rotate and you will be able to do it.
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