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Using Photoshop paths
From the course: Photoshop-Illustrator-InDesign Powercombo for Design
Using Photoshop paths
- [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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Working with Photoshop layers4m 55s
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Creating layer comps in Photoshop4m 41s
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Using Photoshop layer comps2m 13s
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Using Photoshop snippets5m 37s
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Creating a Photoshop clipping path4m 16s
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Using Photoshop paths5m 41s
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Using Photoshop alpha channels6m 11s
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Grayscale images for monotone print3m 27s
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Grayscale images for duotone print2m 57s
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Vector Photoshop content in InDesign4m 35s
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