So I have a big question...does anyone know how to make the fancy shapes that some police departments use? For example, see below. I'm talking the polygons that are behind the text.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

You can trace them or you can make them from scratch or you can pull them right off from the picture.

those are rather basic geometric shapes. would be very easy to re-create in photoshop with the pen,anchor and convert point tools. here is a youtube tutorial on making geometric shapes in ps,

 

 

Pen tool, pen tool, pen tool. If you don't have access to Photoshop, GIMP has a similar "paths" tool which does basically the same thing.

Using the best pen tool would be your best option.

1 hour ago, ScottehBoyy said:

Using the best pen tool would be your best option.

 

1 hour ago, ScottehBoyy said:

Using the best pen tool would be your best option.

I started usimg then pen tool last night, and it is definitely one of my favorite features of cs6 now. Thank you guys for the help!

42 minutes ago, HBengtson said:

 

I started usimg then pen tool last night, and it is definitely one of my favorite features of cs6 now. Thank you guys for the help!

Glad you got it sorted! :)

Incidentally, the pen tool is also the best way to trace a foreground to delete the background.  Many people use the "eraser" tool to delete the background, but it doesn't generate nice clean lines.