The next part in our Pen Tool tutorial involves the Layers and Path Palettes.
The Layer and Path Palette are usually docked together as a default. To open them you have to go to WINDOWS > LAYERS or WINDOWS > PATHS
Open pan.jpg (hopefully you also saved it after creating the path)
Save and rename the path as discussed in Part 4 of the tutorial.
(CTRL-Win; CMD-Mac)
Open the Path Palette and change the saved path to a selection – that is, hold CTRL and click on the path name.
Once the path turns into a selection, we go to the Layers Palette. Press CTRL-J.
What this does is it will copy our selection to a new layer as shown above.
Click off the new layer we created and go to the Background Layer and make another selection as we did before by CTRL-clicking on our path.
Instead of CTRL-J, do a CTRL-SHIFT-J
What happens this time is instead of copying our selection, it cuts it out of our layer (shown above).
1. Our previous layer copied from our selection. (CTRL-J)
2. New layer with selection cut from our background layer. (CTRL-SHIFT-J)
Save this document (with layers and all) as a psd file.
