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Creating vector masks with the shape tools

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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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