From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
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Deploying path outlines as a vector mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
Deploying path outlines as a vector mask
- [Narrator] Alright now just as with alpha channels inside the channels panel, paths in the paths panel don't really do anything, they just sit there at your beckon call in case you'd like to use them at some later date. If you want to use them right now then you need to deploy them as either selection outlines layer masks, or best case scenario, vector masks. And let me show you how that looks. For starters I'm going to switch to my black arrow tool, the path selection tool, if you will. And I'll go ahead and click off the path outline to deselect it. Notice we've got two ears right here, and let's say I want to convert them to selection outlines, then I would drop down to this dotted circle at the bottom of the path panel and I would click on it and I would end up with a couple of selection outlines that I can use any way I like. Alright let's say instead however, I want to convert one ear to a selection outline and leave the other alone. In that case I would press control D, or…
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Tracing an image, point-by-point1m 33s
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Introducing the Paths panel5m 38s
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The Freeform and standard Pen tools5m 57s
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Adding and deleting anchor points5m 10s
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Starting a path outline with an ellipse7m 9s
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Drawing smooth and cusp points7m 25s
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Deploying path outlines as a vector mask5m 45s
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Combining a layer mask with a vector mask6m 58s
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Brushing along a path outline8m 8s
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Adding to an existing vector mask7m 59s
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Perfecting hair inside a vector mask6m 9s
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Bolstering hair with an Overlay layer6m 48s
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Drawing perfect eye masks7m 5s
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Duplicating and masking entire groups7m 28s
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Masking with vector-based letterforms3m 48s
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