From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Filling a selection with color - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Filling a selection with color
- [Instructor] In this movie we'll add this little bit of an elbow that's associated with the rear wing, and we'll do so using a path outline that I've drawn in advance. Along the way I'll share with you a couple of keyboard tricks for filling a selection with either the foreground color or the background color. Alright I'll go ahead and switch over to our almost complete document right here. While you could just go ahead and draw that elbow using the brush tool, I realize not everybody's an artist and besides this gives me a chance to share with you yet another technique. I'll go up to the window menu and choose the paths command in order to switch to the paths panel. You can see that we have a path outline called elbow. Just go ahead and click on it to make it active and I'll zoom in on the path outline as well. I drew this outline incidentally using the pen tool, to which I'll devote an entire chapter in my mastery course. At this point what we need to do is convert this path to a…
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The layered composition1m 25s
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Introducing the Layers panel5m 44s
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Converting the flat Background into a layer6m 43s
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Customizing the transparency checkerboard3m 14s
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Turning a color photo black and white5m 30s
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Creating a silhouette with Brightness/Contrast4m 4s
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Creating a new layer and painting on it6m 7s
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Simple tricks for painting with the Brush tool4m 37s
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Distinguishing black from non-black pixels7m 51s
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Moving an image between documents5m 10s
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Expanding the canvas to accommodate a layer4m 35s
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Auto-Select and the Move tool5m 29s
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Employing a clipping mask3m 40s
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Working with Opacity and blend modes8m 7s
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Three ways to duplicate a layer4m 17s
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Scale, rotate, and layer mask5m 27s
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Filling a selection with color6m 48s
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