June 2009
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
10h 57m
English
Photoshop’s attempts to convert an active selection (“marching ants”) to a clipping path are valiant, but the results are usually less than stellar. Because a Magic Wand selection follows the rectangular edges of pixels, it’s not a very good basis for a smooth clipping path.
In some instances, noodling with the Make Work Path tolerance setting on the Paths panel (Window > Paths) can soften the granularity of the generated path (Figure 9.10), but you’ll have to keep reloading the selection and experimenting with the tolerance settings, since this function doesn’t offer any preview of the outcome.
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