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Using Photoshop paths

Using Photoshop paths

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Using Photoshop paths

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- [Instructor] If you're not really sure which part of the image you need when placing it in Adobe Indesign, then the following technique might be a good fit for you. The idea is that we'll create and include multiple paths in the same Photoshop file, so that we can later decide which part to use in Adobe Indesign. Here I'm starting out in Adobe Photoshop, where I have your regular image. Now if I navigate to the third tab where it says paths, you'll see that I already included one path, which is called bowl. Now this is a regular path, it's not a clipping path simply because it's not bold text. Now I would also like to have a second path for one of these olives here. So let's start by creating this first. I'll just zoom in a little bit and I'll just choose the pen tool, make sure that path is selected at the top left of the screen and also make sure that I do not have the bowl path selected, so make sure that you click in…

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