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Shading an isolated object

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Shading an isolated object

I've saved my progress as Just a drop.psd, found aside the 27_pen_tool folder, and thus far we've managed to exactingly select this drop and isolate it from the rest of the image, using a precise path outline drawn with the Pen tool. Now you may look at this drop and wonder about the precision. After all, I'll go ahead and press the A key to get my White Arrow tool. After all, it looks like this darkness down here is an area that's outside the drop and potentially, we're going too far out on the left-hand side. So if you're curious about that kind of stuff, you can just go ahead turn on this droplets layer that appears duplicated behind single drop. You'll see here that actually this dark area is inside the droplet, whereas I might be going too far out over here on left-hand side. So I'll go ahead and click on this anchor point and tuck it in just a little bit by pressing the Left Arrow key. I will urge you that as much as you might want to get your path outline exactly right, that's…

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