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Combining paths into a single vector mask

Combining paths into a single vector mask - Photoshop Tutorial

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Combining paths into a single vector mask

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In this exercise, we are going to select that left eye, using Path outlines once again. And then we will combine the two eye outlines inside of a single vector mask. I have saved my progress as Right eye masked .psd found inside the 09_layer mask folder. I am going to scroll over just a little bit, so I can keep an eye on that left eye. As I was saying, this gets pretty tricky when we are trying to mix and match a bunch of path outlines together. So we are best of, isolating that left eye inside the Paths panel. So I am going to go ahead and hide the Adjustments panel for now. And then switch over to the Paths panel and let's create a new path By Alt or Option+Clicking on the little page icon at the bottom of the panel and because, I Alt or Option+Clicked that brings up the new path dialog box and I'll go ahead and call this one left eye and then click OK. And now because left eye is selected in the Paths panel, we will automatically draw our outlines into that path container. All…

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