Buttons "Drawing Behind" and "Drawing Inside" disappeared!

I can not find those buttons. I am newbie in Photoshop!
Sorry guys!

I want to do this:
http://www.deke.com/content/dekes-techniques-65-creating-leafy-letters-photoshop

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I am currently using the draw inside feature on an object of mine. I find that when i come back to it, like if i save and close the program and then come back, whatever new stuff i paint vanishes behind rather than appearing on top. The main solid colored object I always have to send behind before i could paint over it every single time. But now that I have some details over top of that, they are cooperating the same way and need sent behind as well im assuming, with the main object being at the very back. I'd hate to try and select everything because everything around it would need locked and this and that to select what i need and its just allot of hassle, especially if i have to do it every time i re open the program. Shouldn't new brush strokes paint above everything rather than below? Any help would be highly appreciated.

I submitted something similar to this about two version back. I know
when I'm trying to draw a long line, it would be nice to be able to use
some sort of guide. I think I was imagining a tool that you could hold
with a second hand while drawing with the wacom pen. I think they really
could corner the market if they came up with something like this.
Unfortunately, I think they hold back...after all, if they give it all
away, they have nothing to upgrade to...right?
On a similar note, I vaguely remember back when ver 2or 3 of Illustrator
came out and one could fit graphics(text?) in an envelope. At the time,
it was a plugin that was subsequently removed.
For the next 50;) versions I whined about this. Finally, I think it was
version 9 or 10 that brought this feature back to Illustrator.
So given that track record, I think we might get it in version 17. Let's
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Hi, i can't click on the 'Draw Inside' button

i am unable to click on the 'Draw Inside' button at the bottom left to place a pattern into an image that i got off google, how can i place a pattern that i have made into my image?

Sophie,
It only works with a single vector object, not a raster image. My guess is that you have the latter.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/drawing-basics.html

Draw inside disabled, and clipping mask workaround loses information

I want to use my compound paths, with styles, fills and strokes applied to "draw inside", but that command is greyed out when I select them.
However, if I "cheat" and instead use the compound paths as clipping masks first, I accomplish something which looks exactly the same way in the layer palette as when I do manage to "draw inside" an object.
The trouble is that all my styles, fills and strokes get killed using that workaround, and I have to reapply them.
Am I missing a step somewhere, or doing this in the wrong order?
Any advice will be appreciated.
Also, any word on why "draw inside" is disabled for compound paths?
PS. Another problem using my poor workaround is that when the compound path becomes invisible, I can't find a way to drag appearances to it or apply swatches, even when I select it in the layer palette. I have to redo all styles, gradients, etc. manually, which is not efficient, nor desirable, at all.

Monika Gause wrote:
eobet wrote:
So, if I understand this correctly, two people replying here can draw inside compound paths, and two people can't. Is this a design premium feature, or why does there seem to be a difference?
Has nothing to do with Design Premium.
Maybe you'd like to show us your art. There might be other ways to achieve what you need to do.
Well my problem is that I can't do either of these:
Now, the stroke aligned to the outside, I apparently can never get around unless I choose to outline the path on that stroke, which means I loose flexibility (or add steps to my workflow).
And drawing on the inside... I guess I could make a clipping mask manually, but then I loose that really nice gradient I spent a lot of time to position just right... (either way, more steps in my workflow).
Actually, the whole point of my question is completely lost if I have to outline any path, because the reason I want to work with compound shapes and clipping masks at all, is that I want to easily be able to move one of the sub-shapes which creates the final outline, without having to redo neither the gradient fill or stroke.
And yeah, thinking again, my workflow is completely wrecked either way, since compound paths don't allow aligned strokes.

Basic Draw Inside mode Questions

In CS5:
1.) I am drawing in Draw Inside mode. I Draw a rectangle, select it, and enter the Draw Inside mode, and I drew a star over it and since it was not inside the rectangle it disappears. When I move the Selection Tool over the shape, the outline of the star appears and disappears. How do you select the star and delete it?
2.) I have a shape drawn inside of another shape. The shape drawn inside the other shape was done while in Draw Inside Mode. How do I now select the shape drawn inside the other shape? The Direct Selection tool works, is there a way to do it with the Selection Tool?
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The Layers Panel holds great clues
Both items can be selected via the Layers Panel. Or you can double-click with the Selection Tool to enter Isolation Mode.

Drawing Inside a Window

OK, so this is driving me insane at this point and I really need to figure out how to get it to work. If I can figure it out then I think I might need help with one more thing and after that I will hopefully be able to produce something. Also, a full blown explanation will help, since I keep putting off programming then coming back to it. I'm not fresh on everything and I'm an amateur to begin with anyway. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here's the problem.
I have a document window, called "Window" in this case and a NSMenu called "newLoanMenu". What I'm trying to do is get the menu to draw INSIDE the Window by clicking on an NSButton button inside the window. I remember being given some code that does this, but I've been looking at it for a while now and it honestly isn't helping me at all.
I have no idea how to post pictures on here but I have a picture that might help with the explanation I posted above, please check it out here
http://www.hummingsoft.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1333
Thanks in advance for your help
Mohannad
http://www.hummingsoft.com
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Draw inside, clipping masks & Live paint

I made a drawing of a stone floor excavation and I used 'draw inside' to delimit the excavation borders as below:
and this is what it looks like with edit contents selected:
Sadly, I also wanted to carry on drawing in 'Live paint' mode to 'colour in' sections (the above is just a small section of a much larger drawing), but because 'draw inside' creates a clipping mask, this object is now incompatible with the 'Live paint' paradigm! So I thought I would 'expand appearance' to continue and this is what I get:
What's that about? Whatever it is, it's not very useful!
My question is, is there a way for me to successfully translate a 'draw inside' object to a 'Live paint group'? The above objects are just simple shapes with a single fill & stroke.
Thanks

Ahh, you're a gem Monika, thank you very much! I only had to modify your answer a little to achieve my desired result, and that was to (after releasing clipping mask) copy and paste in front (because I still needed a version of the boundary as part of the Live paint group).
Thanks again
Les

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Hi.
How I can draw inside movieclip/graphic element with Actionscript?
If i have example movieclip-element in my project and want to draw a single dot in its coordinate (10,10), how I can do that?
ty m8s!

The easiest way to draw inside a movieClip is the graphics class.
You could do something like:
this.graphics.lineStyle(1, 0x000000);
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this.graphics.lineTo(11, 11);
This isn't perfect when drawing pixels, however - it only has methods for lines and shapes(circles, rectangles etc).
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Cs5 line width tool, draw inside

I'm having a major problem with the line tool in conjuction with draw inside. Any time i draw anything inside an object that has had the width tool used on the stroke, it diables the width work i have done and makes the object all one thickness (usually very thick, or as thick as the widest point). Am i REALLY to believe you cant use these two tools on the same object. I have tried everything, and no matter what i do the effect is the same. Any help would be appreciated.
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