From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
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Expanding an image tracing
From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop
Expanding an image tracing
- [Instructor] All right now, notice this area right here. If I was to zoom in on it by pressing ctrl + or cmd + on a Mac, you can see that we have a bunch of loose garbage that's not actually attached to the tree, and the best way to get rid of that stuff is to expand the image trace, which is going to turn it into static path outlines, and that's also going to give us a chance to simplify the path. And so I'll go ahead and press ctrl + 0 or cmd + 0 on the Mac to center my zoom, and then I'll click on the tree in order to select it. And now you can click on the expand button, either up here in the horizontal control panel or down here at the bottom of the properties panel, and that is going to convert the image tracing to an extremely complicated path outline. Now, if you take a look at the top of the properties panel or the far left side of the horizontal control panel, you can see that we have a group, which is not…
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