From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero
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Finishing off the hands and gloves
From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero
Finishing off the hands and gloves
We now have one outstretched hand, and I think we can be proud of that. But we're still missing the other one, and we need to add in the grill lines as well, which is of course, precisely what we're going to do in this movie. So, first thing I want you to do is go to the hands layer right there, make sure that the vector based portion of the layer is selected, as opposed to the pixel based layer mask. And then grab the black arrow tool, the path selection tool, and click on that path in order to select the path that surrounds the hand. Now let's make a copy of it by pressing control+alt+T, or command+option+T on the Mac, which allows us to transform and duplicate a selection in one operation. And I'm going to go ahead and move this target toward the center of the image. At which point you may see this peculiar effect right here, where the interior of the path appears to disappear. Don't worry about that. Just go ahead and right click inside the image window and choose flip horizontal…
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