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Creating a custom shape mask

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Creating a custom shape mask

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- Now that we've had a chance to work with creating some shapes, let's go ahead and use a shape to mask this photograph. In previous movies, we've seen how we can use tools such as the Alpha Channel to get rid of a solid color background in order to allow text to flow around an object. However, in this case, what we'd like to do is we'd like to have the barrel so that the barrel itself is just sitting here in our text and the text flows around the edge of the barrel. But the photograph around the barrel is a little bit too difficult to use the Alpha tool. The best way to accomplish what we want to do is to use a shape and then mask the photograph with a custom design shape. Let's begin by going up to the Shapes menu, and selecting the pen tool. Next, we want to use the pen tool to draw an outline as closely as we can to the edges of the barrel. I'll start by clicking my mouse down in the lower left hand corner of the barrel to create an end point. I'll then move up here to the upper…

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