Working with the Pen Tool - Adobe Photoshop CC - page 229

4 Press and hold the Ctrl key (Windows) or Command key (Mac OS) and hover over the mask icon at the
bottom of the Layers panel. When the tool tip shows Add a vector mask, click to create a vector mask
using your pen path. Your flower is now silhouetted, and all the other content is masked or covered by
the vector mask.
Press and hold the Ctrl/Command key to The result.
add a vector mask.
Keep in mind that you must have a layer, not a background, in order to use this shortcut to creating
a vector mask.
You now see a mask off to the right of the Layer 0 thumbnail. (Learn more about masks and what you
can do with them in Lesson 4, “Making Selective Changes in Photoshop CC.”)
5 Choose File > Save and keep this file open for the next part of this lesson.
Using the path to adjust color
In this final part of this lesson, you will use the pen path that you created to apply a color change to the
flower.
1 In the Paths panel, click the flower path to highlight it. Notice that a new path was automatically added
when you created a vector mask in the previous exercise.
2 In the Layers panel, click the Create new fill or adjustment layer icon ( ) at the bottom of the Layers
panel and select Hue/Saturation. A new adjustment layer is added to your Layers panel and the Proper-
ties panel appears.
3 In the Properties panel, click and drag the Hue slider to change the color (choose any color you want).
Notice that hue changes the color; Saturation affects how grey (washed out) or vibrant a color is; and
Lightness controls how light the values in the image are.
4 Choose File > Save. You can now close the file.
Self study
Using the ps1102.psd file, select another flower and change its color using a new adjustment layer.
Open the image called ps1103.psd and save it as ps1103_work.psd . Use the Pen tool to make a selection
and then change the color of one or more of the crayons, using the techniques covered in this lesson.
Review