Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners
Photoshop Tips with using the Pen Tool and Levels. Watch the tutorial and download the exercise file to practice
Click here or the image below to download the exercise file
Pen Tool Tutorial Captions
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Welcome to Pen Tool Photoshop
In this tutorial I’ll be using the Pen Tool
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to create a Path, convert that Path into a
selection
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and then save that selection as a layer mask
The final image will have a transparent background
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which you could save as a TIF and use in programs
like InDesign
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So I’ll go through now and cut out the image
You can download the exercise file and practice
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on the image yourself
I’ll speed up the footage as well so its
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a little bit shorter to watch
I’ll also try to cut this image out slightly
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faster and more realistic the way I’d actually
cut out the image for Publishing
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So that is the Pen Tool process
Cutting out with the Pen Tool
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Holding down the command key, clicking on
the Path
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Loading as a selection, clicking on add layer
mask
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and it will automatically covert a background
to a layer and apply the mask
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You can now save it as a
TIF with transparency
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and place into any application that supports
transparency
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You could also save the file as a PNG and
use it on the internet with a transparent
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background
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial and
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I’ll see you in the next tutorial
