Real Retouching

Your image should now look something like Figure 4.0. In this chapter we add our products. I started with the Lash tube. Go to the Products fles folder and open the fles Lash tube.tif, Lash_wand.tif, Lash_new_tip.tif, and Lipstick_tif. We will use the pen tool to select and remove each product from the white background on all the fles except Lash_new_tip.tif. Do not include the tip of the Lash wand in your pen outline, since we will be replacing it anyway.

Make a selection from your path outline (you can just Command/Ctrl-click on the path thumbnail) with zero feather; we want the products to have nice, clean, sharp edges. While the selection ...