Well the weekends over and the the week is in. Today I wrote a letter to Mrs. Frascht which I had to do by Friday so it’s nice to have that out of the way, Also I did watched some lynda.com Photoshop for Designers: Shape layers.
Chapter 5 – Working with Custom Shapes.
What is a vector mask.?
This video talks about how to create, adjust, disable, and delete a vector mask. (before & after)
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I am glad you learned so many new things this semester. I look forward to seeing all that you will accomplish next semester! You will be able to work with Illustrator next semester as well as focus on photo editing if you wish. Keep up the awesome work!