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Tool presets enable you to create tool settings that you can save and use again. This feature is a real time-saver if you use specific tool settings on a frequent basis. For example, I make numerous 2-x-2-inch and 2-x-3-inch rectangular selections on images I use in a newsletter. Because I saved the settings as presets, I don’t have to redefine them each time I want to select an image for my

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Creating and modifying paths The path tools create and modify paths, which are elements comprised of straight and curved segments and anchor points. You can then use these paths as a basis for a selection or to define a shape. Because of their precision, using path tools to ultimately create a difficult selection usually yields better results than you can achieve with the selection tools. Using

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Today I found a new blog in Indonesian language describing about digital imaging and photography. This blog using wordpress and lunated theme. I wonder if blogger also have a thumbnail posts like that. In this post I'm also announce that I will writing again for this blog. Yes my english still poor and my knowledge still small. But that's ok, here is a place I learn about internet, design,

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Although you can add, subtract, and intersect selections with the Shift and Alt (Option on the Mac) keys and the selection option buttons in the Options bar, you can do much more with the commands found on the Select menu, shown in Figure 3-6. Here you’ll find ways to expand, contract, smooth, fuzz, and turn your selection inside out. You can also use this menu to automatically select similar

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To add a perfectly square or round selection to an existing selection, follow these steps:1. Press Shift and drag with the Rectangular or Elliptical Marquee tool.Your selection is unconstrained.2. As you drag, keeping your mouse button pressed down, release the Shift key for just a moment, and then press it down again.Your unconstrained selection suddenly snaps into a constrained square or circle

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What happens when you press the Shift and Alt (Option on the Mac) keys together? Not a collision, but an intersection. Pressing both keys while dragging with a Lasso or Marquee tool or clicking with the Magic Wand tool creates the intersection of the original selection with the second selection.To retain only the part of an image where two selections overlap, press Shift and Alt (or Shift and

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Just as you can add to a selection marquee, you can also subtract, or deselect, from the selection.To subtract from a current selection, press the Alt key (Option on the Mac) and drag around the pixels you want to subtract with the regular Lasso or the Rectangular or Elliptical Marquee tool.Press the Alt key (Option on the Mac) and click the area you want to remove with the Magic Wand tool.To

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To add to a current selection, simply press the Shift key and drag around the pixels you want to include with the regular Lasso or the Rectangular or Elliptical Marquee tool. You can also press the Shift key and click the area you want with the Magic Wand tool.To include an area with straight sides in your selection, you can press the Shift key and click around the area with the Polygon Lasso

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If you’re like me, you may find it tough to get the perfect selection the first time around. I mean, all it takes is one too many cups of coffee, and that Lasso tool seems to take on a mind of its own. That’s okay. Photoshop is way too benevolent to leave you hanging with a mediocre selection. A multitude of techniques are available to modify and transform your selections.You can add or remove

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A clipping path hides areas that fall outside your path and displays the area inside your path. For example, without a clipping path, if you were to import a silhouetted image into Microsoft Word or an older page layout program or illustration program that doesn’t support transparency and place it against a colored background, it would appear against a rectangular white background. This occurs

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Quite a few options appear in the Options bar when the Pen tools or Path Selection/Direct Selection tools are active. Here is the scoop on those options:-->The Auto Add/Delete option enables you to add or delete an anchor point with the regular Pen tool.-->Show Bounding Box places a box around the path, allowing you to transform the path. The bounding box isn’t a path or part of your image. It is

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Often, it is easier and less time consuming to try to get a reasonably decent, but not perfect path with the Pen tool. Then after you’ve got that, go back and edit your path for more accuracy. And while following the Eyeball-It-Then-Fix-It strategy is valuable any time in your Photoshop career, it is especially true when you’re first learning to use the Pen tool.Photoshop offers you a bevy of

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I want to let you in on a fun way to create paths. Yes, I said fun. You have to assume by fun I mean there is no Pen tool involved in the method.You can grab any of the shape tools and create a work path. Before you do, however, be sure to click the Paths icon in the Options bar. It’s the icon that looks like a pen cursor with a square path around it. Drag the shape tool of choice on your canvas

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Confession: There is a more amicable incarnation of the Pen tool — the Freeform Pen tool. This tool is kind of a hybrid Lasso/Pen tool. Just drag around the element you want to select, and the tool creates an outline that follows your cursor, exactly like the Lasso.After you release your mouse button, Photoshop provides the anchor points, lines, and curves for that path, exactly like the Pen.In

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Although you probably won’t use this option nearly as often as you use the option to turn a path into a selection, the option is, indeed, available: You can create paths from existing selections. Creating a path from a selection can come in handy if you need to save a path as a clipping path.1. If you’ve been reading from the beginning of this section, you probably have a selection on-screen

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Creating a path is usually the means to an end — an accurate selection. Therefore, most likely, you will frequently be using the Paths palette to load your path as a selection.Follow these steps to get the lowdown on how to do just that. Open an image, make a selection by using the Pen tool, and get started.1. Choose Make Selection from the Paths palette pop-up menu.Alternatively, you can also

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You can fill the interior of a path with color by choosing the Fill Path command. Follow these steps:1. Select the path in the Paths palette and choose Fill Path from the Paths palette pop-up menu.A dialog box gives options for Contents, Opacity, Blending, and Rendering. Or you can press the Alt key (Option on the Mac) and click the Fill Path with Foreground Color icon (a solid circle) at the

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You can use the Stroke path command to paint a stroke along the path. You can choose which painting or editing tool to use to stroke the path. Follow these steps:1. Select the path in the Paths palette. Then choose Stroke Path from the Paths palette pop-up menu.Or press the Alt key (Option on the Mac) and click the Stroke Path with the brush icon (an outlined circle) at the bottom of the palette.

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To delete a path, drag the path to the trash can icon at the bottom of the palette. Or choose Delete Path from the Paths palette pop-up menu.You can duplicate a saved path by choosing the path in the Paths palette and selecting Duplicate Path from the Paths palette pop-up menu.You can also drag the saved path on top of the Create New Path icon at the bottom of the palette.To rename a path,

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To save a work path, double-click the path in the Paths palette. Or choose Save Path from the Paths palette pop-up menu (click the triangle in the upper right to open the menu). Then provide a name in the Save Path dialog box and click OK.After you save your path, you can reload it at any time. Unlike layers, paths take up very little storage space, so don’t hesitate to save them. Plus, you don’t

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When you create a path, it automatically appears in the Paths palette as a work path. Remember that a work path is temporary and unsaved, and you can have only one work path in the Paths palette at a time.If the work path is selected when you begin another path, your actions are added to the current work path. But if the existing work path is hidden and you begin drawing another path, that new

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Working hand in hand with the Pen tool is the Paths palette. You can think of it as a kind of Command and Control Center for your paths. Although it isn’t mandatory, it’s a good idea to open up your Paths palette before you create a path so that you can stay apprised as to what is happening with your image. To open the palette, choose Window➪Paths.The icons at the bottom of the Paths palette from

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You can also create a series of lines or curves. For example, you may want to create a border consisting of some decorative curve shapes, which you could later stroke with color. You can then save these subpaths under a single path name. To create a series of subpaths, simply end one path before starting another. Make sure that the paths are not hidden when you do so; otherwise, Photoshop will

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To close the path, return to your first anchor point and click. You see a small circle next to your pen cursor, indicating that you will close the path when you click. Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of a work path. Don’t worry if the path isn’t perfect; you find out how to edit paths in an upcoming section. If your path is perfect and you want to save it now, skip ahead to the

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If you need to create a curve that goes in the same direction as a curve that is adjacent to it, you need to take a couple additional steps:1. Convert the point — this time from smooth to cusp — by positioning your cursor over the second anchor point in the existing curve and pressing the Alt key (Option on the Mac).2. Drag toward the bump of the curve. Release the mouse button and then release

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