Chapter 04: Pen Tool Power
- When to Use the Pen Tool
- Complex Paths and Combining Paths
- Working with Paths
- Combining Paths and Selections
The Old Car
The car do have main path on it's outlines and each window is having own path
as well. Then I made a alpha channel for the selection and did add window
paths to it painting them different values of gray.
It really took me a while to figure out how to make this mask. I think there
must be an easier way too.
The wet ground is made using Flaming Pear's Flood filter.
Greeting Card for Fia
The flame fractals are from program Apophysis.
Fia's image is a watercolor work set into a clipping layer mask of the flower. I played with several blending modes to blend these fractals and images together. Then duplicated the document and saved it using different name. I changed the image in b/w mode and adjusted the contrast. Then I flatten and saved it again to desktop and closed the image. Moved back to first document and used this b/w image as a texture in texturizer filter. The technic is called texturizer mapping.
Inviting Card
I used this same technic in here, but this image is without clipping layer masks and it's having gradient overlay.