Adobe 13101332 User Guide - Page 202

Adobe Photoshop Help Using Help | Contents | Index Drawing Back 202 • You can designate a saved path as a clipping path to make part of an image transparent when exporting the image to a page-layout or vector-editing application. Create a new path in the Paths palette before you begin drawing to automatically save the work path as a named path. To create a new work path: 1 Select a shape tool or a pen tool, and click the Paths button in the options bar. 2 Set tool-specific options, and draw the path. For more information, see "Using the shape tools" on page 203 and "Using the pen tools (Photoshop)" on page 205. 3 Draw additional path components if desired.You can easily switch between drawing tools by clicking a tool button in the options bar. Choose a path area option to determine how overlapping path components intersect: • Add to Path Area to add the new area to overlapping path areas. • Subtract from Path Area to remove the new area from the overlapping path area. • Intersect Path Areas to restrict the path to the intersection of the new area and the existing area. • Exclude Overlapping Path Areas to exclude the overlap area in the consolidated path. Use the following keyboard shortcuts while drawing with a shape tool: Hold down Shift to temporarily select the Add to Path Area option; hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) to temporarily select the Subtract from Path Area option. For more information on working with paths, see "Using the Paths palette (Photoshop)"on page 209. Creating rasterized shapes As the name implies, rasterized shapes are not vector objects. Creating a rasterized shape is the same as making a selection and filling it with the foreground color.You cannot edit a rasterized shape as a vector object. To create a rasterized shape: 1 Select a layer.You cannot create a rasterized shape on a vector-based layer (a shape layer or a type layer). 2 Select a shape tool, and click the Fill Pixels button in the options bar. 3 Set the following options in the options bar: • Mode to control how the shape will affect the existing pixels in the image. (See "Selecting a blending mode" on page 241.) • Opacity to determine to what degree the shape will obscure or reveal the pixels beneath it. A shape with 1% opacity appears nearly transparent, while one with 100% opacity appears completely opaque. • Anti-Aliased to blend the shape's edge pixels with the surrounding pixels. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 202