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Drawing with shape outlines - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Drawing with shape outlines
In this exercise, we're going to draw this swash, which is currently represented as a pixel-based layer, we're going to draw it using a series of vector-based shapes. These are simple shapes by the way. We can create this entire swash effect using nothing more than two ellipses and two rectangles. That's all it takes. And not only is it a good experience for you to learn how the Shape tools work, but you can scale it to any size you like, and it will always be razor-sharp, as opposed to a pixel-based layer, which is going to soften as you up sample it. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and zoom out from my composition quite a bit, because we're going to have to start things off with a very big shape indeed. I want you to click on the underline layer. The only reason it's there, by the way, is so that we have something to trace. I actually created this underline layer using the Shape tools and then ultimately converted it to pixels. All right, so step one: let's go ahead and grab…
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Photoshop's vector exceptions1m 11s
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Making text in Photoshop6m 18s
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Creating and editing a text layer6m 56s
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Font and type style7m 35s
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Type size and color7m 52s
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Combining layer effects and type10m 57s
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Drawing a custom shape layer8m 34s
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Side bearing, kerning, and tracking10m 36s
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Point text vs. area text8m 26s
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Selecting and formatting a paragraph5m 19s
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Copying and pasting unformatted text7m 45s
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Creating text inside a custom path6m 26s
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Creating text along a path8m 13s
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Adjusting baseline shift6m 16s
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Drawing a fading arrowhead7m 29s
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Fading a shadow with a layer5m 32s
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Logo creation and Fill Opacity7m 44s
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Stretching a background element6m 9s
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Drawing with shape outlines6m 18s
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Combining vector-based shapes6m 42s
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Masking vector-based shape layers6m 7s
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Correcting spacing problems7m 44s
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Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle8m 45s
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Preparing text for commercial output5m 9s
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Saving a high-resolution PDF file7m 11s
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Inspecting the final PDF document7m 8s
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Saving large poster art9m 32s
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