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Using a photo to create a travel poster

Using a photo to create a travel poster

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Using a photo to create a travel poster

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- This week, we're going to create a little travel poster. A little travel poster for the island of Puerto Rico. So now right here on the screen is a shot I took in Puerto Rico a long time ago, and it's not a great shot, it's just a shot. But this is going to be perfect for our little poster. So we've got this, and I also have a little Puerto Rican flag that I created. And the way I created this is I just created some paths, you can see the paths, in fact, let's just see the background here. You can see there's a path for the outside, a path for the inside there. These are the red stripes, there's three paths for that; the blue triangle and the white star. So there you can see that the red stripes were put in, the blue triangle and the star, and then they were combined into a single layer right there. So that's going to be our flag. So here's our shot. Now the first thing we're going to do to this shot is to modify it a little bit. We're going to modify it so that it starts to look…

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