Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Adobe Tutorial on clipping

How to make a clipping path

To make a clipping path you must  open up the photo in PhotoShop. Then in the layers panel, doub-click background and rename it. Then in the tools panel, click on magnetic lasso tool. After this step is completed click on the photo where you want to start, it is best to start in the center. After you slecte your spot, drag the lasso tool around the area that you are saving.Once the whole image is selected
hit commad+shift+I. Then  hit delete, your background should go away and you should only see your selcted image. Your image has now been clipped and is able to be saved as .eps. Finally the image can be moved into InDesign,

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLgqvUVj-Mc

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