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Working with path outlines

Working with path outlines - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working with path outlines

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In this exercise we're going to brighten up the woman's eyes and we're going to do so using Vector Masks. This gets pretty gnarly, you're either going to think, wow, this is a lot more effort than it's worth, or gosh, this is great that I have that much control. Your opinion of course is entirely up to you, but it is a preview of just how powerful Paths are inside of Photoshop. We'll see a lot more of them when we get to the Pen tool course. I've saved my progress as Pixel and vector mask.psd, found inside the 09_layer masks folder. I am going to go ahead and zoom in on the woman's eyes, until we can see them actually at about 200%, will help us out pretty well. And I'd also like you just so that we can control things a little better, I'd like you to go ahead and click on any one of the layers that does not contain a vector mask, because otherwise that kind of complicates things. Now drop down to the Ellipse tool. So just as the Elliptical Marquee tool is great for selecting eyes, if…

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