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Shape and Selection tools

Shape and Selection tools - Photoshop Tutorial

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Shape and Selection tools

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Even though Photoshop is mainly known for its roster or pixel editing capabilities there are also vector-based tools and in this topic we will need to cover these because in the exam they might ask you about them. First of all you have to know where to find them and what's considered vector based tools so the pen tool category will have all of these tools here mainly for drawing and I'm going to walk you through the differences between them but that's one of the categories and the other major category is this one with the shapes so these will create vector shapes and additionally you also have these selection tools path and direct selection tools which is for making changes or edits of your existing vector parts. Now the type tool category or group is also vector based but this is something that we will discuss in a separate topic so we will come back to this soon So now let's just focus on the drawing tools and probably easiest to start with the shapes so I'm going to use the…

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