Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours

Chapter 13. Using Paths

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• Creating Paths

• Editing Paths

• Using Paths

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Congratulations! You’re halfway through, which is to say that you’ve seen only half of what Photoshop can do.

Early on, you learned about selections and how selecting part of an image isolates that part so that you can work on it and not the entire image. Last hour, you learned about converting selections to masks to protect the parts of your image that you don’t want to disturb.

The problem with a selection is that it can be difficult to achieve a precise shape. Photoshop has all kinds of tools for creating selections based on the image content, but what if you need to select a very smoothly curved area? Or a triangular ...