Vector drawing techniques in Photoshop
Unlike bitmap images, vector images retain their crisp edges at any enlargement. You can draw vector shapes and paths in your Adobe® Photoshop® images and add vector masks to control what is shown in an image. This lesson will introduce you to advanced uses of vector shapes and vector masks.
To complete the lesson, download the lesson_9.zip file.
Requirements
To complete this article, you will need the following software and files:
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Sample files:
phscs3it_lesson_9.zip (ZIP, 59M)
Where to go from here
For more information about working with text in Photoshop, check out the following resources:
- Photoshop Design Center
- Adobe Creative Suite 3 Video Workshop
- Typographic design with Photoshop, by the experts at Adobe
About the authors
By the experts at Adobe
Excerpted from “Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book” © 2007. Used with the permission of Adobe Press. To purchase this book, please visit http://www.adobepress.com.
