Draw a path and straighten layer beneath?

I'm sure this has been asked before but is there a quick fix to this.
I have a panoramic where the horizon is a little wobbly. I can then draw a path along this path. Can I then straighten this line out?

You could do this with Puppet Warp. It's far from automatic, but I'd call that horizon more than "a little wobbly", so it will take a lot of time and patience to get it right.
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Hi there, i'm looking for help with this. When I draw a path with the pen tool, and fill it, it seems as if the shape now has two parts. If i drag the filled area around, it's breaking apart from the path (or border). this is kind of annoying for me, so how can i make this one entity?

thank you. i still find this behaviour a little cumbersome though. for example, on a rectangle shape it's a few clicks to select all the areas of the border, and the fill.

How do I transform a clipping path and layer at same time?

I have a bunch of images with clipping paths that need to be altered. Most images need skewed or distorted, and I can't figure out how to transform the path at the same time I transform the layer - so I do not have to create new paths. Thanks
Working in Photoshop CS2

I’m afraid You will have to employ a workaround.
I would recommend applying the Path as a Vector Mask to the Layer (with the Path selected command-click on the Add Layer Mask-button in the Layers-panel), then transforming, subsequently duplicating the Vector Mask and removing it from the Layer.
Or copy-paste it into the existing Clipping Path and then remove it.
Some part of the procedure may be automate-able with Actions or Scripts and hopefully it will still save at least some time.

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.

Crop and Straighten Photos in CS6

I open a 8"x10" jpeg or any other photo then go over to FILE menu and drop down to AUTOMATE then over to CROP and STRAIGHTEN PHOTO,S
Now what happens is that three other copies appear copy ,copy 2 copy 3 .
My original is OK at 8"x10" followed by the copy being 5"X7" then copy2 is about 1/2"x2" and copy 3 is about 3/4"x3/4"
I think this is being caused by interaction with CS5 as the same happens there.
CS4 is all OK this not being affected.
Now in CS4 i can crop and straighten but in CS5 and CS6 nothing can be done.
Kip

OK, here's the scoop: the feature in File>automate>crop and straighten is designed for those who scan in several photos with white space between them. It will make it's best attempt at separating each photograph by looking for the white space around them. It will then crop each photo to the edges it determines and make each straight based on the detected edge.
It is not designed to straighten the image in a photo. If you run this on a photograph, it is looking really hard for white space and will make its best attempt to separate what it thinks are independent items or photos and save each to a file.
If you want to straighten an image, go to the ruler tool and draw a line and choose straighten layer to get a rotation only, or go to the crop tool and select straighten, and draw a line that you wish to be the horizontal. This one will crop also.
I hope that clears up the issue.
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I have a line drawing (black on white paper) i have scanned and need to make the white paper transparent, maintaining the line drawing, can i and then HOW can i do this in PS?

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First let me apologize for posting a reply that was only suitable for advanced users. Photoshop is broad and powerful therefore has a huge learning curve. In fact I would state no one knows and uses all of Photoshop. When we first get Photoshop it intimidate us and we're very uncomfortable using it. Many thing are not intuitive there in much learning involved. After some time we begin to know something and we are able to do some thing. Learning become rapid and we start playing in Photoshop. It is very important to play with Photoshop. Playing with Photoshop and asking for help with in forums like this IMO is the best way to learn.
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I do not type or do English well so let me do some screen captures. I can not stress enough how important Black, White, Grays and Blending is when it come to image processing. Become friends with Multiply, Screen, Overlay and Luminosity blending.....
However when there is a white or black background though you can blend them you can not add a style like a drop shadow, emboss or make it invisible setting fill to 0 so only the style is visible. When there is contrast between the logo and background it is easy to separate the two. To select the background and delet it to have the logo with a transparent background. Many tools can be used to create the selection hee I use my action kill white.
Vector Shape would work better for scaling However it would be best to create the logo from scratch in a vector program like illustrator but I never had the resources to justify the Creative suite. I only had Photoshop. Recently Adobe gave me and other a year subscription to the creative suite for our participation here. I still have not installed anything but Photoshop, A while back I found a program that can create vector patf for black and white art work. It will not be as good as using something like illustrator. However vector paths can be edited in Photoshop and cleaned up some. Here is the PSD it 13MB because od the gradient http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/AmPm24-7.psd

"Text on a path" and "paths" rasterised when printed from a PDF on an iGen

I have just obtained from the printer the first proof of my book (printed on an iGen) and I'd like to find out where one of the problems lie. I'll ask the printer his opinion before second proof, but I don't like to annoy him unnecessarily.
One of the chapters in the book has a lot of maps. I drew rivers by stroking a path, and named the rivers using 'Text on a Path' so that the text follows the curve of the river. Some of the maps have a pale background image on a different layer. And this is where the problem seems to lie.
1. Rivers (and their names) appear normal on a map WITHOUT a background. By 'normal' I mean they look sharp. When magnified they seem to have been drawn as vectors.
2. On maps WITH a background layer, 'Text on a path' appears very chunky (as if it has been rasterised at about 300 dpi) and paths (the rivers) appear to have the jaggies. Horizontal text does not appear to be affected.
I can't be certain that (1) and (2) exactly define the problem, but it's as close as I can get at the moment.
When I opened the original PDF file from which the book was printed, no matter how much I enlarge it, all paths and 'type on a path' retain their smoothness. i.e they are obviously vectors. However, I noticed when I opened the PDF in Acrobat 7 and tried to edit the 'text on a path', the PDF went haywire: the text I tried to edit disappeared, and other text frames on the page were shifted around.
A sample PDF (6.7 MB, including an original two-page spread, and a scanned copy of the iGen print of the same), can be downloaded from:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?oe4omuzoqzz
Two questions:
Q1: On the maps with a background image, is the rasterising of stroked paths, and 'text on a path' due to the iGen mishandling the file? Or might there be another explanation?
Q2: Re Acrobat 7 mishandling my 'text on a path': is this a bug that has been fixed in later versions of Acrobat?
To reproduce this bug do this: Open the PDF described above, and within Acrobat 7 select Tools > Advanced Editing > Touchup Text Tool. Then click inside the name "Georgina River", backspace to try and delete a letter, and the PDF should go haywire.

Sandee: Almost certainly below the text, but I'd have to check them all.
But before I do that, we'll have to go back a step. I can almost handle layers in InDesign, but didn't know they existed in PDFs. The printer printed from the PDF and as far as I can tell after a brief visit to HELP, there aren't any layers in the PDF. When I go to View > Navigation Tabs > Layers and click on the Layer Tab when it appears, there's nothing there; and all the items under Options are grayed.
Q1: Why do I need a layer in a PDF? By not having layers, can that cause problems?
Q2: Re Robert's suggestions: what do you mean by "move all the text to a top layer"? Within InDesign before I export to PDF?
Q3: Is printing more foolproof when I export to PDF, if all my text is on the one layer in InDesign and that layer is above any images? There are several hundred river names, place names etc, sitting on lower layers, but if need be I'll move them all.

Making object follow a path, and turn in direction it moves

Im looking all over but my search terms must not be correct. I can find ways of getting text to follow a path but not normal objects. It doesnt seem to work the same way for normal objects. How do I create a path and have an object follow around it? Also, I need to get the object to turn as it follows around (its a little space ship that needs to face the direction its moving)

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Photoshop CC 2014 Paths and Stroke Issues

Hi!
The first issue:
When i'm copying factor path and paste on a new layer it creates a vector mask instead of just placing vector shape, is there any solution on how to disable it? In 2013 version and older it just worked.
And the second issue:
I work with very tall documents and when I make any changes to any shape's stroke PS just moves me to the center of the document. It's really annoying. Any solutions?

factor path
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When i'm copying factor path and paste on a new layer it creates a vector mask instead of just placing vector shape,
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Transfer rotoscope path to different layer

A novice rotoscoper, I got a little confused from having read and watched tutorials with several diffeent styles of rotoscoping.
Some said to use a layer in between path and actual subject layer with the eyeball turned off. Then lock the actual target layer so as not to move it around inadvertantly.
I may have that confused a bit... if so, it not the tutorials doing but mine.
Cutting to the chase; I have a solid light grey layer with the opacity turned down to 1. above a footage layer of my great grandson doing his first zombie walk.
I spent a lot of time getting a mask to follow his little head in his trek across the floor. Now I wanted to transfer the mask path points over to the target footage layer. I clicked the footage layer with the pen tool to get a mask started, then with focus on the grey layer/Mask/mask path (all the points are lit up so selected) and copy... then to the footage layer Mask/Mask path - paste. So far so good.
But somehow I must have moved either the grey solid layer or the footage layer sometime during all the pulling and hauling.so the mask misses the head in a perfect offset all the way thru. The attached screen shot illustrates it well. The first one shows the mask on the grey layer, the second on the footage layer.
I tried lining up the layers by setting the `position' parameters the same, also by just eyeballing the crosshair thing that shows the center of each layer.
Trouble is I can't find a way to see the crosshair from the one layer as soon as I focus on the other to move it. Ditto for the path itself. Soon as focus changes the path does to. I may be going the opposite way of what I should, but tried it both ways with both layers and am just not getting how to get it right.
I know I can just do it over, and that isn't really a problem since I can clearly use the practice. But I feel like there must be a a clearcut way to match up a layers position to a path.
At this point I've thoroughly confused the heck out of myself and would like to hear someone lay out how to get two layers to match up

Haa, the footage layer is turned on but the solid layer above was
set to 1% opacity.. with the eyeball off. cranking that up 100 fixed
it. Now I can see the babies head, and the rest is masked out as
expected.
You'd
think the opacity setting on the solid layer would not matter if the
layer eyeball is off anyway, but apparently it does. If I scroll the
opacity up and down with the layer eyeball off, the babies head
appears at higher percentages and disappears below 10 or so.
If you think about it, it makes sense.
A track matte set to "alpha" applies the opacity value of each pixel in the layer directly above to current layer. So, if Opacity for that layer is 1 per cent, that affects the opacity value of all pixels. Leaving it at 100 per cent, means that fully opaque pixels are applied as fully opaque, and fully transparent pxiels as fully transparent.
The visibily control (eyeball) for the layer above is turned off aumatically (if it's not already off) as soon as you set a track matte mode. So, the layer is "seen" for the operation regardless of the visibiliy status.
The column is headed with `T' and when you check it, it says `preserve transparency'. I don't quite get what that is for.
That's called "Preserve Underlying Transparency", and it's a very convenient option... but I am surprised by how many people enable it without knowing what it does. It's not the first time someone gets bitten by it
And what it does is... this layer (the one with the switch turned on) only exists in areas that are not transparent, when taking into account the combination of all layers below. Example: if you have three circles placed in different places, and then create a large text layer and enable this switch, text will only exist in places that match the circles underneath.
More info in Preserve underlying transparency during compositing, in After Effects Help on the web.
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I
could use some ideas on that too. I started with just the head to get
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taking several masks to enclose various chunks of the babies body. Is
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Hi, i can´t fill my paths and simbols, only show up no select

hi, i can´t fill my paths and simbols, only show up no select

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When drawing a path with the brush tool and then placing the brush back over an anchor point to continue the path, sometimes it continues the path and sometimes it deletes the path and just starts a new one. Why does it sometimes add to the existing path and sometimes start a new one?
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If you have the path slected, wil edit the path, if it is not slected will create a new path. Aslo there si a distance withing 12 pixels is what I am set to. You can increase that valeu if you find you are getting too many new paths.

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I am having trouble selecting a layer that is beneath a layer of text. This layer of text has several lines in it and I can see the layer beneath. If I use the move tool with auto select on (and set to Layer, not Group), I should be able to select a layer that matches the top-most item that I click onto in my document.
So if I have a square laying on top of a circle and I click the square, the layer with the square is selected. And if there is a layer of text on top of the square, I am able to auto-select the text by clicking on any letter. BUT the problem is that I need to be able to select the square even when I am clicking between the letters and lines of the text layer.
Right now, I have to click outside the complete "boundaries" of the text to get to the layer beneath (by "boundaries", I mean the top an bottom and left and right sides of where the text exists on the layer... and this happens no matter if the text was created by dragging out a text box or not... i.e. point type or paragraph type).
If memory serves, I could do this in Photoshop CS1 just by clicking between letters or lines. As long as I wasn't clicking on a "pixel" of text (yes, it is live text, but I hope you get my gist), I'd be able to select the layer beneath.
Any help? I cannot find any setting for changing this. I hope I'm not stuck with this... THANKS!
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OK...further:
In my reply above, I was testing with and referencing PS CS2. My reply simply detailed what you were talking about, in different, metaphorical terms. I rather blindly ignored your question about any differences between Photoshop versions.
So, I opened up PS 7, and tried the same thing...
Layer 0 (promoted from
Background)
Rectangular Shape Layer
3 lines of double spaced text, all of which fit well within the area defined by the shape layer.
With "Auto Select Layer" checked, and "Show Bounding Box"
UN
-checked in the Options Bar:
Start by clicking on "Layer 0" and it becomes highlighted in the Layers Palette.
...Click on the edge of the Rectangular Shape Layer, and the Layers Palette reflects this selection.
...Click on one of the letters, and that text layer is selected, as shown in the Layers Palette.
...Click on the space between the lines of text, and the rectangular Shape Layer is again selected.
BUT!
If you CHECK the "Show Bounding Box" option, the space between the lines of text no longer has the "Click-through-to-the-shape-layer-below" capability. You have to click outside of the "TBB".
Now, let's compare that behavior to the way it works in PS CS2; The significant difference is this:
It doesn't matter whether you have the "Show Transform Controls" box checked or UNchecked in the Move Tool's Option Bar choices, that space between lines of text no longer has the "Click-through-to-the-shape-layer-below" capability. That "sheet of glass" that the text layer sits on is ALWAYS there, so you have to go round the side to get at the box underneath.
NOTICE! The difference. Not only has the behavior changed, but the name for the function in the Options Bar has changed from "Show Bounding Box" to "Show Transform Controls." Because I updated directly from PS 7 to PS CS2, I don't know what took place with any changes in PS CS (1). And since I don't use PS CS3, I don't know if anything else has changed.
Sooo, bottom line is you'll just have to experiment, and figure out what works best for you, and then just resign yourself to the fact that it's just the way it works now.

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Hi,
As an exercise I'm recreating the logo for the Seattle Mariners. I've got it except for two things and would really appreciate help with:
1.) The type "Mariners" sloping downward in an arc. I was able to get the Seattle part using type on a path on a circle and typing on top. Question is, can I also type Mariners on the bottom of that path? I recall that not being the case. Am I supposed to draw another circle over the one that Seattle is typed on and then on that one type on the bottom? Regardless, please explain how to do it?
2.) For the stitching, am I supposed to create one stitch and then create a brush, draw a curve and then apply the brush to that curve? How do I space them out that way? If not, please explain.
Thanks!

Have you already read this:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-64faa .html

How do I move or copy a shape layer's path to another layer?

i'm looking how to apply an existing vector shape from a layer to another, before it was simple as hell just by alt + drag 'n drop from a layer to another.
But now this command doesn't work anymore ? so how i can do it ? i need to simply apply a vector clipping mask to a bitmap layer or a group or just apply a shape to another vector layer (not the blending option)
why it's not anymore possible ? it was simple and easy since CS1 or 2 why have you changed that ?

It's unclear to me from your keyboard shortcuts whether you are on Windows or Mac, so here are the keyboard shortcuts for both platforms:
Command-drag (Mac)/Ctrl-drag (Win) the shape layer thumbnail to move the shape path to another layer.
Command-Option-drag (Mac)/Ctrl-Alt-drag (Win) the shape layer thumbnail to copy the shape path to another layer.
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