Crimson
07-12-2005, 08:28 PM
I feel pretty proud of this discovery and thought I would share if it can help any one. Clipping paths can be somewhat of a tedious job to create in photoshop. I have to do them fairly often to clip out product shots. However, I have found a shortcut for complex shapes and what not. You can't really use the select tools and make a working path with out getting a million points and it looking jagged.
Here's my idea:
-Make a new layer in photoshop and paste the object(s) you need to clip.
-Go to your levels and blow it out so that it gives you a black sillohette of your object. Save the .psd but leave open.
-Open the .psd in Illy with convert file to layers.
-Apply the live trace on the sillohette layer and expand. Unfill the path and stoke.
-Copy to your paste board.
-Go back to the .psd and paste in as paths. You might have to nudge it and line it up but it is a fairly clean path.
It's kind of still a quick and dirty trick but it could be a time saver for some complex stuff or people that get frustrated with beziar curves.
Here's my idea:
-Make a new layer in photoshop and paste the object(s) you need to clip.
-Go to your levels and blow it out so that it gives you a black sillohette of your object. Save the .psd but leave open.
-Open the .psd in Illy with convert file to layers.
-Apply the live trace on the sillohette layer and expand. Unfill the path and stoke.
-Copy to your paste board.
-Go back to the .psd and paste in as paths. You might have to nudge it and line it up but it is a fairly clean path.
It's kind of still a quick and dirty trick but it could be a time saver for some complex stuff or people that get frustrated with beziar curves.