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Painting along a path

Painting along a path - Photoshop Tutorial

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Painting along a path

- [Instructor] Sometimes, it can be difficult to create a freehand brush stroke in a very specific shape, like a circle, for example. But Photoshop makes it easy to create a path and then stroke that path with a painting tool. So I've created a new document that's four by six, filled the background color with white, and let's create a new layer in order to create or place this paint stroke onto. I'll tap the u key in order to select my shape tools and I'm going to select the ellipse tool. I want to make sure that it's set to draw a path, so I'll choose that in the options bar. And then, I'll click and drag out the path. I'll hold down the shift key in order to constrain it to a circle, and I'll hold down the space bar if I want to reposition the path in the image area, releasing the space bar, and then releasing the cursor. We can see in the Paths panel that I now have a work path. Before I stoke the path, I need to set up…

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