Accurate Layer Selections Using Photoshop’s Selection Tools: Use Photoshop and Illustrator to Refine Your Artwork

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J. HarderAccurate Layer Selections Using Photoshop’s Selection Toolshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7493-4_10

10. Shape Tools, Pen Tools, and Creating Paths

Jennifer Harder¹  

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Delta, BC, Canada

 

This chapter teaches you how to use the Shape tools or a Pen tool to create a path that can later be made into a selection for other projects.

Later, in following chapters, you’ll look at a few additional ways to create and then save your selections in a document so that you can return to them another day.

This chapter discusses a few final tools that you can use to create a path and save that path in the Window ➤ Paths panel. In Chapter 11, you save that path as ...