Master the Paths Tool in GIMP 2.10

[Music] [Music] hello and welcome to yet another tutorial by Davies media design my name is Michael Davies and in today's tutorial I'm gonna be showing you guys how to master the paths tool using this is version 2.10 point six which at the time of this tutorial is the latest version of before we get into that I want to direct you guys over to my website at Davies media design.com as always we have tons of give video and text tutorials on here as well as project translate you can watch one of our playlists support us on patreon or view our poll the week results so definitely check those items out we're also launching something called school and this is going to include a series of live online presentations featuring myself and we'll be going over various concepts and you guys will be able to ask questions directly during these live presentations and you can check these out by going to school calm and that will take you to the latest live presentations available and for this tutorial and for future tutorials I'll be including discount links to these school sessions so definitely check those out you can also enroll in our photo editing course from beginner to pro photo retoucher on udemy and you could support us on patreon and help our channel grow and I'll include a link to this as well as all the relevant links from this tutorial in the description of the video so today's tutorial is all about the path tool and you can access it by hitting B on your keyboard or you can click on it over here in your toolbox the path tool allows you to create curves called Bezier curves which are saved to a path in the past dialog the paths dialog is located over here near the layers area so you can click on this tab right here and that'll take you to your pass dialog if you don't see this you can open it by going to windows dockable dialogs paths and when you click on that that should open this up right here so there are a lot of reasons why paths are super useful for one you can draw a path and come back and reuse that path at a later time within your composition you could bring paths into other compositions and you can do things like stroke the path fill the path or create a selection from the path and we're going to get into all those concepts as we move through this tutorial so I'm gonna show you guys how to design this I also have this other design here that I did using the path tool and I'm going to show you guys how to do this on my patreon page so all my patrons will have a chance to watch that tutorial but this is the photo I used for both tutorials and you guys will see here in my composition that I do have a path here and notice that as I cycle between my different compositions the paths dialog is going to update based on what path sir in that composition this composition doesn't have any path so that's why this is blank and if I unhide this composition which is a characteristic of paths you can hide or unhide them so if I unhide that you'll see that this path outlines the girl and an active path or a path that is no longer hidden will be displayed in red as you could see here and when you have your path tool selected and you click on the path that's going to make that inactive path and if i zoom in here you'll see that there's little dots here these are called anchor points in between the anchor points is a segment segments can be straight or curved and you could curve them by using the handles and we're gonna get into that as I draw with this and this is a closed path so the first and last anchor points that I drew here are both connected and that allows me to do various things like create a selection from this path as well as fill the path or stroke the path and you can see over here and my tool options you have all the tool options for the paths tool you have design edit and move as your edit modes and we'll get into all those polygonal just means when that's checked that your path will not create any curves so right now I cannot create curves from this segment it can only be a straight line and that can come in handy when you don't want any curves in whatever shape you're drawing and then here you have your options for selecting the path filling the path or stroking the path which we're going to get into you can also rename this path so I can come over here and just name this girl outline and hit enter so I just double clicked on this name and that allowed me to change the name of the path if you come over here it's kind of like the layers panel so you can create a new path here you can duplicate the path you can change the order of the path so if you have multiple paths here you can move them up and down in the stacking order you can create a selection from the path which is called path to the selection and you'll notice there are some shortcut keys here and these are for the selection tools so if I come over to a selection tool here you'll see that there's different modes here and we've gone over these in my other tutorials so you've got the replace the current selection mode and that just means every time you draw a selection whatever you draw will replace we used to be there and you've got Adsit selections so when you draw with this you'll see that each time you draw a shape it's going to add to your previous shape then you've got subtract from the current selection and that just means when you draw a shape that intersects with your current shape that'll just erase that section that's intersecting from that shape and then you have intersect with the current selection and that is only going to keep the areas that intersect between the existing path and the new path you just drew which in this case is this area so you can also do that over here with the paths by holding any of these hotkeys here that you can see here when you hover over and let me just hit control shift a to select a nine you can also do what's called selection two paths which means whenever you draw a selection area like I just did here with the rectangle select tool when you click this option here and let me make sure I have my mode set to replace the current selection at least so now when I have a selection area drawn here if I click this option it's going to turn that selection area into a path as you can see here so now we have a square then you have the option to stroke a path so you could stroke along this path and we're gonna get into that and then you can delete a path so right here if I want to delete this rectangle path that I drew which I do want to do that I'll just click this icon and now that path has been deleted so I'll hit control shift 8 so now let's get into using the actual path tool so I'm gonna come back over here to my path tool and I'm going to do what I did here which is outline this girl and so I'll come over here to my layers and I'm going to just delete the stroke layer here you'll notice I have two layers right here and these are just duplicates of one another and let me just delete this duplicate so what I did here this is the original voto that you started with and by the way this will be on pixabay and I'll include a link to that in the description so when you open up your image it's just going to have this and let me come back to my past dialog and hide my path so this is what your image will look like before you do anything with your path tool so the reason I duplicated this which I can duplicate it over here in my layers panel by clicking the duplicate icon right here and we can rename these girl portrait and girl portrait light so this is my duplicated layer what I like to do before I use the path tool whenever I'm using a picture that has some shadows like in this case you can't really see what's going on in the shadows here is I like to brighten up the image and that way I could see what's going on here and there's a couple ways to do that I can go to colors shadows highlights or I can go to colors levels and so this case I'll just go to levels because that's what I did last time and it works pretty well and now I'm just turning up the level so that I could see what's going on in these shadows and this just makes it easier for me to outline whatever object it is I'm trying to outline with the pass tool and I'll click OK so now I'll come over and grab our paths tool which on my channel is called the chemin Brewer Pass tool thanks to our diamond member patreon supporter Ken brewer so using this tool to start what I like to do is I hold ctrl on my keyboard and zoom in with my mouse wheel and I'm going to just click a random part of my image so in this case I'll just click right here so when you click it'll first create an anchor point and now I'm going to create my second anchor point here and that's going to create a segment and right now I have this set to play g''l mode so let me hit control Z uncheck that option and this will allow me to make this a curve so what I'm gonna do now is wreak lick for that second Anchor Point I'm still holding my mouse as I'm clicking and I'm just going to drag this and that is allowing me to create these two boxes here which are called handles and the handles are what control the curves of your anchor points now I can continue on drawing this path from this anchor point so the anchor point that is hollow in the center or basically just has an outline around the circle is your active anchor point so I'll zoom out here and I'll just move over to this anchor point you'll see this one does not have a stroke around it or it is not hollow in the center so that means that is not active but if I click on this that is now the active anchor point for my path and whatever active anchor point you have selected as long as it is not a closed loop you can start drawing off of that active anchor point so you'll see now I can draw my curves off of this anchor point but I'll hit control Z because I do want to draw off at this anchor point over here so I'll just click on that and then I'll come over here and continue drawing so you'll see that when I click my curve is sort of add a whack here because I just wanted to follow what she's wearing here I don't want it to go way out like this but because this anchor point here has a curve you'll see the handle right here is way out what I can do is just work on this handle and now I can drag that in and that allows me to reset the curve so that it now follows the girls arm right here and we're gonna come back once we finish sort of a rough outline of the girl and we're gonna tweak these curves so I just leave curves that are out of whack like that but I'm just gonna continue drawing here so I'm clicking and dragging and you'll see that as I drag it'll add a curve to that anchor pointer to that segment and I'm just going to continue doing that so sometimes the curves interact with one another and that's what creates this s-curve so for instance this handle is pointed out this way and this handle is pointed out that way these two curves are combining and creating an s-curve we're gonna have to fix that later and I'll come here click and drag to create another curve and I'm just going to do this down the line here and I'll do it fairly quickly just for the sort of rough draft of the outline here and I'm just clicking and dragging and the further out you drag the more of a curve it's going to create and the less you drag it out the smaller of a curve it'll create so in the case of hair like in this case it's sort of up to your discretion how much hair you want to keep it doesn't have to be perfect but you don't want to cut out too much hair so in this case I'm just quickly clicking and dragging trying to get the most hair possible while also trying to cut out some of this wall here that's behind the hair and so now I'll come over here click and drag and you'll see this curve is way out of whack here so we'll have to come back and fix that and I'll hold control and use my mouse wheel to zoom out so now we don't have as many detail parts so I can kind of just zoom out a bit here and work on some of these larger parts and I'll hold the spacebar and that allows me to sort of grab the canvas and then shift over using my mouse so you'll see while I'm doing this that we are in design mode right now which is the current edit mode and design mode is what allows me to add these anchor points and create these handles and these segments as I move along the image we're gonna get into the other modes as we continue on with this design and as we need to tweak the line that we're drawing here you so one thing about the past tool is you can draw outside the canvas so in this case I'm creating anchor points that are outside the canvas here and then I can zoom in and bring these points back into the canvas and so that's pretty useful when you need to select everything that kind of goes off the canvas page like in this case so I'll come over here and then I'll get it back on track here all right so as we are approaching the first anchor point that we drew here what I need to do is connect these two anchor points to create a closed loop if I try to click directly on this anchor point you'll see it'll just select this as the active anchor point it won't connect these and also if I just click somewhere outside here and then click and try to just hover this over that last anchor point that's not technically closing the loop there so I'll just hit control Z to undo that what I need to do is I need to make sure I'm on one of these last anchor points and then to create what's called a union between these two which means I'm just connecting them what I have to do is hold ctrl and hover over that last anchor point there and then I can click on that and that will go ahead and join those two anchor points together and now this is a closed loop so now I'll zoom out so you guys can see the sort of rough version of the outline around our main subject here and if I come over here to my pass dialog box you'll see here is that new path that we drew this is the original one that I drew so I can just delete that but here is the new path that we drew that goes around the girl and you'll see that that path is now disappeared but that's okay we can unhide that path at any time so that's one of the main benefits of the past tool is you can always come back here to the past dialog box and unhide that path you drew and then reuse it at any time so come back over here to my layers panel and with my paths tool selected still I'll click on that path and now that path is active again and now I'm going to hold ctrl and zoom in because I want to start working on refining this so I'm going to start by clicking on this anchor point that we drew and I'm going to drag the handle out like so and that's going to draw a curve around the zipper there and then I'll click on this anchor point here and you'll notice that when I click on it there aren't any handles that pop up like this so this anchor point has handles whereas when I click on this one nothing happens if you have a situation like that where you have an anchor point that doesn't have a handle what you can do is hold ctrl and then click and drag and you'll see that now a handle will come out of that anchor point there and then you can hold ctrl again and then click and drag again to create a handle going in the other direction so I'll hold the spacebar and just move around my image here and so I'll come up here to this area and just tweak my handle and sometimes what you need to do is move the anchor point out of the way to see what's going on behind it and just double-check where that curve needs to be so in this case we've got too much going on with this handle so I'll just bring it all the way in and then same with this handle it's causing this curve to sort of take on a shape that we don't want it to take on and so now I can just readjust these handles so I want them to be a little bit more subtle here like so and then I'll use my mouse wheel to scroll up same with this handle this one's going way out so what I want to do is bring that back in and you'll see that that corrected our curve there so now it's the right shape and you can just sort of do that along your entire image just changing the shape of the curves as you go to make sure it's matching the curves of the object you're trying to select so come over here here you'll see that this line gets off track here a little bit so I can just adjust that handle bring it in a bit and here this handle needs to be brought in quite significantly there same with right here so I have elected to cut out this part of the hair right here it's not something that I feel that I need for what I'm trying to accomplish so if you guys want you can include that little strip of hair right there but in my case I'm just going to leave it out I'll hold ctrl and zoom out this part gets a little crazy just with all the hair here I'm gonna move in here using my mouse wheel and the ctrl key and so this handle you'll see goes way out here and so I'm just gonna bring that handle way back in like so so right here we have another area where the curve isn't matching the shape we want it to be and these two anchor points right here don't actually have curves to them so I'll hold ctrl again and one thing I didn't mention before is that when you hold ctrl if you look over here in the edit mode under your path tool option you'll see that the edit mode changes from designed to edit when you hold ctrl so that's what's allowing you to add these handles here to your anchor points and then you can adjust the curves here and get them to where you need them all right in this case we have a situation where I think this part is pretty important to get right so what I want to do is add another anchor point right here so the way I can do that is just hold ctrl and you'll see a little plus sign and pop up when we're hovered over a segment that doesn't already have an acre point and now when I just click on the segment that will go ahead and create a brand new anchor point and now I can just adjust the curve right here I will have to do the same right here so I'll hold ctrl and click to create a new anchor point and that will allow me to adjust where this is going I don't want this to come out too much so go with about right there and I may need to actually add one more right here and the goal here sometimes is to make sure that you don't have anything like any angles that are jutting out in this case this right here there's sort of a hard angle where this is coming into this Anchor Point here but if i zoom out you can see at the zoomed out level it's not super noticeable so I'm just going to leave it as is I'll just zoom in on this part here and continue working you all right so now we have finished drawing our path around our subjects so what do you guys can tell from the past tool or what you should be able to tell here is that the tool is super useful because what it allows you to do is accurately draw dynamic curves around objects such as this one you can also draw just random objects on your own you don't have to outline something you can just create your own object if you like so you can create your own shapes or whatever you'd like once you've outlined this object there are several options for what you can do as I mentioned before so I'm gonna start with one option which is creating a selection from this path that we drew so remember this path will always be here now that we have it drawn in this composition so what I want to do is cut the girl out from this photo here and so the way to do that is just come over here and click selection from path and now you'll see our path has a selection around it which happens to be in the shape of the girl and I can click off of the path tool to get rid of all of those anchor points and stuff that we drew so now you can see just the girl here and I can hit ctrl C and that's going to copy everything within this shape here and now I'll create a new composition so I'll go to file new and let me just switch this over to landscape mode so I've got nineteen twenty by twelve eighty as my image width and height so click OK and let me just change the background of this to a white color and fill this in with my bucket fill tool so there we go this is now a white background here so now if I hit control V that'll paste my girl that we outline right here into a new composition as a floating selection layer over here so click on that layer and then click right here to create a new layer and that will put the girl on her own layer and now what I can do with this is I can grab my scale tool and just click to scale this down I'll hold ctrl and shift to make sure this is scaling from the center and also maintaining the original aspect ratio of the image and I'll just scale this down a little bit more and actually I can come over here to percent and I want to change this to 65% and let me undo that let me make sure this chain-link icon is linked to make sure that the aspect ratio for the width and height remains the same so type 65 again and you guys will see why I'm doing this in a little bit but now this is scale you 65% of its original height and then I'll just Center that up by clicking in these squares in the middle and when I'm ready I'll hit scale and now we have our girl here from our other image put into this new composition here and the background has been completely erased so we've cut out the background of this girl but how does the past tool play a role in the rest of the composition that we're trying to create well I can come back over here to the lair of the girl or the photo of the girl and hit ctrl shift a that'll select none so our path is still here remember and I'll come over here to our past dialog let me name this girl outline and hit enter so what I can do is I can copy this path and bring it into my other composition or I can export it if I wanted to take the export route let's say maybe I know I want to use this in a future composition that I'm not working on today I can right click and go to export path and I could save this as girl outline SVG you always want to end your names for paths with dot SVG that's just the file type that paths need to be saved as and for whatever reason won't automatically add the SVG to the end and if that SVG is not there it's not going to work so I'll hit save and now we've saved that or I can just right click and go to copy path and then if I come over here I can import that path that we just created by right-clicking and going to import path and then here is the file where I saved it in the file location so here's that path I can just double click and that'll bring this outline this girl outline path into this composition or if I ate ctrl Z to undo that I can just right click and go to paste path since we copied it earlier and now here is that path we drew remember we scale this image down so this path is a little bit larger than the new image size we have here so we do have to scale the path down the good news is that you can use transform tools on the path so right now the scale tool is a transform tool you'll see over here there's an option under transform and right now it's set to active layer which means we would be scaling the active layer which is the photo of the girl here but I want to change this to scale just the path so I'll come over here and I can change this to path and now I can click on this path and scale this down and I can move this over as well and the reason that I chose 65 percent earlier is because now I can just come over here two percent type in 65 and then hit the tab key and then let me just move this into place real quick before finalizing this and then I'll hit the scale tool and now we've scaled down our original path to the size of the image and now these are both the same size so now that these are both within the same composition I'll come back over to layers we can start working on some of the effects with the path I'll start though first by changing the background color so I change this to a gradient I'll come over here to my foreground color and I'm gonna choose this purple color that I pre-selected you can copy my HTML notation here if you want to use the same color and I'll click OK and then my background color is this red color that I used and here is my HTML notation here and by the way you can always save these colors by clicking this arrow and that'll save them over here so click OK and now I'll grab my gradient tool here and I have the gradient set to foreground background RGB and then my shape here is set to linear and opacity set to 100 and now I'm just going to click and drag from the middle out to the outer part of this image and I want to actually change the shape here to radial because I'm using to point ten point six I can live edit this gradient I don't have to redraw the gradient every time and then I could switch the colors and test them out to determine which one I like better I'm actually gonna go with this color and then I'll just grab another tool the move tool to apply that gradient and now we have a gradient behind our model here alright so now what I'm gonna do is create a stroke that outlines our model and I don't want to do it on the background layer here I want to do it on its own layer and I'm going to be using the past tool to create that outline so what I'm gonna do is first create a new layer and I'll name this stroke outline and this one I'll do for our white stroke outline so I'll just name the stroke outline white I'll set the fill with two transparency and click OK so you'll notice that I have this layer below our main girl layer and all just change the name of this to Maine girl and I'll click back on the stroke outline layer so that this is our active layer so now what I can do to stroke this path is I can come over here to my path tool click on that path and I can click the stroke path option here or paint along the path so click that now you have the choose stroke style option here so what's going to happen is it's going to use your foreground color as the color for the stroke so I'll just click on that to change the foreground color I'm gonna go with white to start so I'll choose white and click OK and if you don't have white as one of your pre-selected colors you can just drag this to the top left corner here and then you could change the line width so I'll start with 50 and see how that looks and so I have it set to stroke line solid color and tile icing just means it's going to smooth this line as it draws around it anytime there's a curve and then under line style you could choose what kind of line you want to use I'm gonna change this just to line so it's just a straight line you could change the cap and the joint style the cap style is where a stroke ends so if this were an open loop there would be some place where the line would have to end this is where the cap style comes in but this is a closed loop so we're not going to have that join style is going to be and I think I just called a joint style a second ago but join style is whenever the line makes a turn this is determining what that turn is gonna look like I'm gonna change this to the middle option so it has sort of a curvature to it as it turns a corner and now I'm gonna hit stroke and that went ahead and strokes the outline here that we drew with the path and if I come over here and put that on the stroke outline white layer here and you'll see that creates a pretty cool effect so now I'm gonna come back to my paths dialog box here and duplicate this path and I'll name this girl outline dotted because we're gonna create a dotted line from this so now what I'll do is instead of trying to stroke this line again I'm gonna create a selection from it first and then manipulate the selection to create the effect I want so I'll come down here and click right here to path to selection and now what I'll do is go to select grow and I'll grow this by let's try 15 pixels for now and click OK and so now that grew our selection area so it's sort of dead in the center here maybe a little bit off but it looks pretty good to me and now that I've done that I can convert the selection back to a path so I'll just click right here selection to path and so now that selection area has been turned into a path and you'll see it's called selection here if I hide that original girl outline dotted path that'll go away and if I hit ctrl shift a you'll see that now we have a path where that selection just was and now what I'll do first is come over to my layers panel create a new layer and I'll name this stroke dotted line and click OK and I'll come back to my past dialog here I'll change my foreground color to this blue color and click OK and by the way you can copy this HTML notation here and now I'm going to click to paint along the path or stroke the path again and so here we have our stroke path dialog box I've changed the width here to 5 and then you could change the line style here and I'll change this to normal dots and I'll click stroke and now if we hide that path that we created now we have a dotted line going around that stroke that we drew so for the next portion I'm going to create a dissolving sort of effect and so to do that to start I'm just going to create a new layer and I'll just name this dissolve layer and I'll hit enter and I'm gonna want this to be all the way below all of our other layers but above the background layer you guys will see why as we get to it but I'll come back to my past dialog here and I'm going to actually use the girl out line dotted layer now for a different purpose so I'm going to change this to girl outline dissolve and hit enter once I've done that I'm going to come back over and make sure I'm on my dissolve layer here I'll grab my pass tool and click on that path to activate the path and I'm gonna change my foreground color to this blue color here you guys can copy my HTML notation and first what I'm gonna do is I'm going to change the edit mode of this path to move so to do that you'll see all I have to do is hold the Alt key and then when I click on the path I can shift it over a little bit so I'll shift it to about right there and now what I want to do is fill in this path with this foreground color here so I'll click fill path and I'll make sure this is set to solid color and I'll keep the anti-icing or anti-aliasing as I'm told it's pronounced and I'll click the fill option here and that will fill in our path area with that foreground color there and if I grab a different tool and then come over here and hide this path you guys can see what I created there I'll come back over to my layers panel make sure I'm clicked on this dissolve layer I'm gonna change the layer mode here to dissolve which is actually the first option under the normal option and you won't see anything yet but if I go to filters blur Gaussian blur and I turn the blur up you'll see that instead of blur it's going to create this sort of dissolving look this almost like particulate sort of look to this you know I'll click OK and I can duplicate this dissolve layer so now I have to and I'll grab my move tool and I'll hold ctrl to put this in straight-line mode as I move it to the left a little bit and now we have these dissolving shapes going on behind our model here all right so next what I'm going to do is colorize the girl here and this doesn't have to do really with the past tool this is just an effect I thought looks cool I'll come over here to the main girl and just duplicate this and so I'll name this main girl blue and what I'll do is I'll just go to colors colorize and now I'm going to change the color of this to that blue color we've been using and I'll click OK you know click OK again so colorize is just going to convert everything to different shades of that color I just chose so different shades of that blue and then I'll just come over here to our layer mode and I'll change this to soft light and that will give our girl a nice blue tint there and then I'll just adjust the opacity a little bit to turn down the effect of this so go about right there all right so getting back to the path tool I'm just going to add an outline around the girl here a blue outline so come back over to my paths and I'm just going to come back to our original girl outline path here and I'm gonna come over here and create a new layer and I'll just name this blue stroke outline and hit enter and I can keep this at the very top because it's not gonna overlap anything and real quick I'll just change this color to that blue we've been using again I'll click OK I'll grab the path tool I can click on the path here and then hit stroke path and just so you guys aren't confused there are two ways of stroking the path so you can do what I just did there clicking on the path with the path tool and clicking stroke path or coming over to the past dialog and clicking this option here paint along the path and those both achieve the same thing just so you guys aren't confused about that but I'll hit stroke path and I'm gonna increase the line width a little bit and make sure that my line style is still set to line here and I'll hit stroke and if I grab another tool and hide that path you'll see now our girl has a blue stroke going around the outline so a couple last things I want to touch upon with the path tool number one is that you can grab the path tool and create multiple components so just so you guys know a component is when you have for example a closed loop like I've been talking about so when I create a union between this last anchor point I drew in the first one by holding ctrl and then clicking this closed loop here is actually called a component if I hold shift and click outside of this component it starts a new component and these two will be connected which means they will have these same settings here so if I create a union here between these two paths now we have two components and I'll hold shift and create a third component here and hold ctrl and click so now whatever I do to one of these components will occur to all three so if I create a selection from the path all three will have a selection area I'll hit control shift a to undo that if I stroke the path with specific settings here and let's change the line style to meet dashes and hits stroke and if I grab a different tool you'll see all three of these have that same strokes so basically any time you draw multiple components by holding the shift key you'll see that they will take on the same characteristics as one another and if I come over here to the past dialog I can show or hide these paths and you'll notice that they are all on the same layer here so they aren't on different path layers they are all one path on the same path layer I'm just gonna delete that because we don't actually need that and I'm going to undo actually just drawing those paths in general and actually let me come back here and just read elite that since I hit ctrl Z another thing to keep in mind if I grab my text tool and I click here and let me just type path what I can do is I can right-click and I can go to path from text and now if I come over here to my past dialog I now have a path in the shape of that text so if I hide the text you'll see that this is now in the shape of a path so the benefit of that is I can now come over here and let's say I create a selection from that path and I'll create a new layer and I'll just name this text gradient and hit enter now I can grab a gradient and I can fill in that selection area I'll hit enter and now we have and I'll hit ctrl shift a to deselect that and hide this path now we have text that is a gradient instead of just being one solid color so that's a cool effect there you can also do something else where you can type your text along a path so let's say for example using my path tool which I grabbed over here I'll draw a curve and now I'll grab a text tool again and I'll type text a long path so what I need to do is come over and make sure that this path that I drew is selected here and I'll come back over to my layers if I right click on this text with my text tool still selected I can come here to text a long path and that is going to draw my text along that current active path I have so now if I create a new layer here and I'll just name this I can come over here create a selection from this path again and I can again fill this in with the gradient if I want I'll hit enter ctrl shift a and let me hide that path and hide this one as well so now we have text here that's going along a curve and that can just create some cool effects so I'll just delete these because I don't want these in the final and same with all these text layers I just created so as you can see there are a lot of great uses for the path tool here within you can cut out objects so you can select objects you can stroke paths you can create shapes and really do all sorts of cool effects and techniques all using this one versatile tool so that's it for this tutorial if you liked it please check out our youtube channel at youtube.com slash Davies media design you can also visit our website at Davies media design comm and you can enroll in our photo editing course from beginner to pro photo retoucher you can also support us on patreon and we'll be going over how to create this composition here on our patreon page in another tutorial so definitely check that out and I'll include all those links plus any other relevant links from this tutorial in the description of the video so thanks for watching and we'll see you next time you

Channel: Davies Media Design

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Length: 37min 41sec (2261 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 15 2018