JK Adobe TV - Top 5 Tips for Working with Vectors in CC

Julieanne Kost has just blogged about her  Adobe TV video on working with shapes and paths in Photoshop CC.  It's actually not that new to Adobe TV, and has already had a lot of views, but we get a lot of questions here on the subject with CC, and there are some nice little tips in it.  I certainly learned a couple of things. :-)
http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2014/01/top-5-tips-for-working-with-vectors-in-photoshop-cc.h tml
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-complete-picture-with-julieanne-kost/top-5-tips-for-working- with-vectors-in-photoshop-cc/

My apologies, but I really had no interest in a member's "answer", especially one that is so unhelpful.  Assuming that you were responding to me (we are the only two commenter's at this point), I would not be inclined to read the Creative Cloud offers since this is something that I am not interested in.  I bought the product the first day of offer, I did not rent it....just like I have in all the years past.

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