This document provides an overview of tools and techniques in Photoshop Level 2, including the pen tool, vector masks, quick selection tool, magic wand, keyboard shortcuts, brush tools, and making selections. Key points covered include using the pen tool to draw shapes and create vector masks, refining selections with the quick selection tool, inverting selections, and saving selections as alpha channels.

1. Photoshop Level 2
Pen tool
Anchor point it the square.
Forward and rear handles.
1. Quality selection: smoothest and most natual; used for selections.
2. Drawing shapes.
3. Vector masks
TeddyBear on New Layer (non-destructive editing)
Quick selection tool is not great quality. Looks for things as the same color. Stay as far away from edges
as possible.

2. Start from center then then click and drag and push to outer edges. Get corners and move out that
didn’t get sleection.

3. Magic wand
Select white background

4. Select menu inverse to select teddybear

5. Keyboard Shortcuts
Ctrl +, - Zoom in and out
Ctrl 0 Fits image on screen
Ctrl space Drag right to zoom in
Drag left to zoom out
With an existing selection and using a selection
tool; hold shift to add to a selection; To remove
from a seletion hold alt or option.
Space Hand tool
Bursh tools
[ makes brushes smaller
] makes brushes larger
Mking selections
1. Start with pen tool

6. 2. If I use quick selection tool then Selection>refine edge.
3. Quick mask (letter Q)
Saving a selection
Creating an alpha channel

8. Go to channels panel to see the selection again or go to the selection menu then choose load selection.
Copy and paste him to a new layer or ctrl+J (copy and paste will automatically get you a new layer.
Rename your layer.
Turn eyeball off on background.

9. Click on circle button at bottom of panel
Choose solid color.

10. Double-click square to change background color.
Get back to original image by turning off teddy and color layers.

12. Pen Tool Tips Select (ctrl)
Single click then single click somewhere else you Click off the path to stop drawing on the path.
will draw a straight line. Draw straight line: hold shift to constrain 45
degree angles. Hold down shift before second click
to get the straight line.
Hold Ctrl key mouse turns to a white arrow direct Click on existing path/anchor point/handle to
select. Click off the line and it will end the drawing. adjust.
Anchor points disappear.
Click and hold to draw curves.

13. Work path
Rename existing work path to create another one. Paths by default are invisible.
Using pen tool.