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Why and when to use vector masks

Why and when to use vector masks

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Why and when to use vector masks

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll talk about why you create vector masks inside Photoshop, and when's the best time to use them. Because, after all, drawing a path outline with the pen tool is an extremely labor-intensive operation. And by way of demonstration, we'll be taking this guy here and setting him against this background in order to create the illusion of this fellow flying upside-down through space. Now, in order to pull this off, we are going to have to create a complex outline indeed. Notice that I've gone ahead and represented the path outline in blue along with the anchor points in red. And if you think it's a little bit complicated to trace around this guy's head, it gets extremely interesting once we get to the hand and the fingers. And so, why go to all this work? Well, let me demonstrate something. Let's say that I start with this guy, and this is a jpeg image, which will become important. Let's say we take this guy and we decide to select him using something…

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