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Creating vector masks with the shape tools - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Creating vector masks with the shape tools
I went ahead and saved my Outline Magazine as Extracted magazine.psd just so you can checkout the path outline, if you have a mind to. For our next project we are going to try something little more complicated and it's going to seem daunting, so deep breaths. We are going to move onto this guy right there, this light bulb and here's what we're doing. I will go ahead and turn off those top two layers for a moment here and what I've done is I've taken this image from Silvio De Boni of the Fotolia Image Library, and what I wanted to do was take this bulb right here, go ahead and select it and put an outer glow behind it. And notice that it's a separated outer glow, we'll discuss that over the course of this project, and then I put an extracted bulb, just the bulb by itself in front of that glow and notice that the bulb has a vector Based mask. Now on first blush, this mask might seem a little daunting. After all it's very smooth, very precise, it's absolutely symmetrical over the top…
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Connecting the dots1m 40s
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The Pen tool and the Paths panel6m 31s
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Drawing a straight-sided outline6m 25s
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Editing a path outline6m 36s
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Adding and editing smooth points5m 35s
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Creating vector masks with the shape tools4m 59s
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Building a complex outline from shapes4m 26s
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Subtracting and transforming shapes6m 45s
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Cloning, flipping, and combining shapes8m 58s
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Roughing in non-symmetrical paths7m 41s
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Finessing a complex outline9m 15s
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Masking a layer effect8m 26s
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Isolating an image element6m 8s
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Smooth points and control handles9m 3s
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Stretching curved segments7m 49s
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Using the Rubber Band option9m 33s
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Drawing smooth points with the Pen tool6m 59s
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Shading an isolated object3m 45s
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Drawing cusp points7m 13s
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Setting points in the pasteboard9m 57s
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Using the Convert Point tool6m 42s
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