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Editing a path outline

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Editing a path outline

In this exercise, we are going to take that straight-sided path outline that we drew in the previous exercise. We are going to apply it to the magazine and then we are going to modify the path outlined using the White Arrow tool. I've saved my progress as Straight-sided outline.psd found inside the 27_pen_tool folder. And you know the interesting thing about this article here? Of the 11 Color Paint And two photo-editing programs that I covered, only one still exists, Photoshop. The others have died by the wayside. So sad and tragic. Some of them were really good programs. Anyway, I am going to click on that Magazine outline here inside the Paths panel in order to make it active. We are going to go ahead and convert it to a vector-based mask by switching over to the Layers panel, selecting the magazine layer. So, notice I've already set the magazine on its own layer with the white background layer behind it. Now, I am going to drop down to this Add layer mask icon and I am going to…

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