• Adobe Photoshop

  pen tool

  Posted by Craig C smith on October 30, 2005 at 2:58 am

  I am new to PhotoShopCS.
  what I want to do is take an image that has 3 people in it. cut out 1 person and put that person on a separate layer. I tried using the pen tool but whatever I cutout turns black. How can I get the image of that person on the new layer. Thanks in advance.

  Craig C smith replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Lriv

  November 1, 2005 at 11:28 pm

  You might have the “Shape Layer” button selected in the options bar for the pen tool…so it is filling the path w/ your foreground color. If so, click on the “Paths” button in the options bar…now when you trace your image w/ the pen tool, the path will appear in the Paths Palette…double-click it and rename it to save it…you can make this path into a selection and cut and paste your image within this selection to a new layer or mask out the background outside this selection.
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  Craig C smith

  November 2, 2005 at 8:42 am

  Thank you very much.

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