Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P14

Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P14:If you are reading this foreword, it probably means that you’ve purchased a copyof Adobe Photoshop 6.0, and for that I and the rest of the Photoshop team atAdobe thank you.If you own a previous edition of the Photoshop Bible, you probably know what toexpect. If not, then get ready for an interesting trip.
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Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P14 Chapter 8 ✦ Selections and Paths 359 ✦ Joining two open subpaths: To join one open subpath with another, click or drag an endpoint in the first subpath and then click or drag an endpoint in the second.Photoshop ✦ Specifying path overlap: You can set the path tools to one of four settings, 6 which control how Photoshop treats overlapping areas in a path when you convert the path to a selection. To make your will known, click one of the buttons near the left end of the Options bar. The buttons, which are labeled in Figure 8-27, become available only after you make your first click or drag with a pen tool. And the button you click remains in effect until you choose another button. Add Subtract Restrict Invert Figure 8-27: Click one of these buttons on the Options bar to control how Photoshop treats overlapping areas when you convert a path to a selection. Note These buttons also appear when you draw paths with the shape tools. With either set of tools, your choices are as follows: • Add: Select this button if you want all areas, overlapping or not, to be selected. • Subtract: Select this button to draw a subpath that eats a hole in an existing path. Any areas that you enclose with the subpath are not selected. Note that if you select a path and the Make Selection command is dimmed in the Paths palette, it’s probably because you drew the path with the subtract option in force. • Restrict path area: The opposite of Invert, this option selects only over- lapping areas. • Invert: Any overlapping regions are not included in the selection. You can change the overlap setting for a subpath after you draw it if neces- sary. Click inside the path with the black arrow tool and then click the overlap button for the setting you want to use.360 Photoshop Part III ✦ Selections, Masks, and Filters ✦ Deactivating paths: At any time, you can click the check-mark button at the 6 right end of the Options bar or press Enter to dismiss — deactivate — the path. When you do, Photoshop hides the path from view. To retrieve the path, click its name in the Paths palette. Be careful with this one, though: If you dismiss an unsaved path and then start drawing a new path, you can lose the dis- missed one. For more details, see “Converting and saving paths,” later in this chapter. Photoshop ✦ Hiding paths: If you merely want to hide paths from view, press Ctrl+H, which 6 hides selections, guides, and other screen elements as well. Or choose View ➪ Show ➪ Target Paths to toggle the path display on and off. To select which items you want to hide with Ctrl+H, choose View ➪ Show ➪ Show Options. Tip To get a better sense of how the pen tool works, turn on the Rubber Band check box on the Options bar. (Press Enter to display the bar and the check box.) This tells Photoshop to draw an animated segment between the last point drawn and the cur- sor. Unless you’re an old pro and the connecting segment gets in your face, there’s no reason not to select Rubber Band. (Besides, what with the ’70s being so hot with the teenies, the Rubber Band check box makes the pen tool seem, well, kind of funky. Consider it another chance to bond with today’s youth.) The anatomy of points and segments Points in a Bézier path act as little road signs. Each point steers the path by specify- ing how a segment enters it and how another segment exits it. You specify the iden- tity of each little road sign by clicking, dragging, or Alt-dragging with the pen tool. The following items explain the specific kinds of points and segments you can cre- ate in Photoshop. See Figure 8-28 for examples. ...