Fill Path with Colour in Photoshop

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Fill Path With Colour in Photoshop
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Index

• Fill Path With Colour in Photoshop
• Fill Path Settings
• Stroke Paths With Color

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Fill Path With Colour in Photoshop
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• In Photoshop a path created using pen tool does
  not become an image element till you performed
  stroke or fill it up.
• The Fill Path command fills a path by pixels
  using a specified color, a fill layer or a state
  of the image.

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Fill Path Settings

• Fill a path with the current fill path settings
• Select the path in the paths panel
• Click the Fill Path button of the paths panel

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Fill a Path and Specify Option

• 1. Select the path in the Paths panel.
• 2. Fill the Path
• ALT-click (Windows) the Fill Path button at the
  bottom of the Paths panel.
• ALT-drag (Windows) the path to the Fill Path
  button.

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• Choose to fill path from the paths panel menu. If
  the selected path is a path component, then this
  command changes to fill sub-path.
• 3. Choose the contents for the fill.
• 4. Specify opacity for the fill. Use a low
  percentage to make the fill more transparent.
• A setting of 100 makes the fill opaque.

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• 5. To fill choose a blending mode.
• The Mode list includes a Clear mode that helps
  you to erase the transparency.
• You must be working in a layer section other than
  the background to apply this option.

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• 6. Choose Preserve Transparency to limit the fill
  to layer the areas that hold pixels.
• 7. Select a Rendering option
• Feather Radius
• Defines how far inside and outside the border
  selection the feather edge extends. Enter a value
  in pixels.

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• Anti-aliased
• Creates a finer transition in the pixels in the
  selection and the around pixels by partially
  filling the edge pixels of the selection.

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Stroke Paths With Color
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• The Stroke path command paints the path of the
  border.
• The Stroke path allows you to create a paint
  stroke that follows any path.
• Stroke a path using the current Stroke Path
  optionsSelect the path in the Paths panel.

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• Click the Stroke Path button which is at the
  bottom of the Paths panel.
• Every click of the Stroke Path button builds
  up the opacity of the stroke and, depending upon
  the brush options, makes it look much thicker.

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• 1. Select the path from the Paths panel.
• 2. Select the editing tool you want to stroke the
  path. Set the tool options, from the options bar
  and define a brush.
• 3. To stroke the path, do one of the following

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• ALT-click (Windows) the Stroke Path button at the
  bottom of the Paths panel.
• ALT-drag (Windows) the path to the Stroke Path
  button.
• Choose Stroke Path from the Paths panel menu. If
  the selected path is a path component, then this
  command changes to Stroke Sub-path.

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• 4. In the Stroke Path dialog box, choose a tool
  if you did not select 1 in step 2. To simulate
  the hand-painted strokes, select Simulate
  Pressure option. Or deselect this option to
  create the more linear, even strokes.
• 5. Click OK.

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