Selecting a pen tool path

I created a path around an object using the pen tool, how can i move that object onto a different background? Sorry kind of new at this :/

Ok, now your mentioning picture. To me that is like one from your camera. Thats called a pixel image or sometimes called a bitmap. Illustrator creates vector images. Vectors are points which are connected with an edge or segment. The distance between the two points are calculated mathmatically.
A pixel image is made up of well pixels. Each pixel can have its own value that determines its color.
When editing a pixel image is best to use an image editor such as photoshop as it has the tools needed to handle pixels.
The tools in Illustrator are meant to handle vector shapes and paths. However over the years both illustrator and photoshop have gained tools that kind of blur the distinction of what they do. In that sense, it is possible to crop, and drop shadows, even mask out an unwanted section of the photo. But its ability to mask an area, copy it and paste it into a new document is well very limited and is usually reserved for those that have no other way to accomplish this task. So, I am not going to say that it can not be done, but that there are easier ways to do it. Which included using the correct software.

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How do i select everything under my pen tool path.

I have made a path with my pen tool around an image that i desperately want. But if i delete the pentool path everything underneith stays alive. They are both in the same layer so i do not know how to do it. Any help?
Yours sincerely,
Joep

Joep,
My guess is that you will obtain the desired appearance if you select both the Pen Tool path and the image and Object>Clipping Mask>Make (Ctrl/Cmd+7).
That will show what is beneath the path and hide what is outside it.

Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)

Tried to remove some cables from an image using Russel Brown's video making use of the pen tool/path and the spot healing brush with content aware. I'm pretty sure I followed his tutorial exactly but it did not work satisfactorily. Are there any other tweaks I should be using to remove these cables and replace them with the background details?

Yes to all.
Silkrooster - Looks great! However, I believe spot healing brush was the first I tried and got smudgy results, especially in area of the locks where there is a lot of detail behind the cables. Found the patch tool works best, but not where there is a lot of detail behind the cables.
Fosse - Well, the bow of the ship going through the Panama Canal at 6 AM in the morning is a popular place, very crowded, and not one of them a photographer. I was lucky enough to get the last spot which was dead center, but in front of the cables. I tried to prevail on some people next to me to trade spots, but none were willing ($##$!!!&& b---ds) and they didn't even have cameras. However, will keep your suggestion in mind about taking two shots for the next time...and will have to get up earlier.
I think if I want to really make this work, I will have to do a lot of work, probably using a combination of all these methods.
Thanks to you all.
By the way, Re my question on screens without a reply button...when I click on a response, it appears without any reply button. How do I get a screen showing the reply button without entering a new question, cancelling out of it, and then clicking on a response, which is the only way I found to get a screen showing the reply button.

Photoshop 6.0 & 7.0 vs. CS (Pen Tool & Paths)

I am interested in the tutorials that have you draw with the pen tool and then create a path, which allows you to enhance the lines drawn with the pen tool. Hopefully that is stated somewhat correctly.
Anyhow, I currently have Photoshop 6.0, are these features (pen tool & paths) available to me? Will they be available in Photoshop 7.0? If so, how do I get to them. If not, do I need to upgrade to a CS version?
My goal, is to convert my drawing from paper, place it on the computer, and add coloring, etc. to it.
Currently, I am drawing the picture on paper, taking a photo of it with my digital camera, opening it with Photoshop 6.0, converting it to black & white, filtering with photocopy (using black & white), and then setting it to multiply. The I color and add effects in the layers below.
Help!!! I am truly a novice and would like to get much better at this type work. Finding a book, or tutorial that matching my situation has been difficult.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
-Robert

Robert...
Are you talking about Photoshop
Elements
? Some of what you've written sounds like you are.
Yes, the Pen Tool is available in Photoshop 6 and newer (but not in Elements 6); Custom Shapes are available in PS
Elements
6 and Photoshop 6 and newer versions of both. From what I can discover through the online documentation Elements 6 & 7 will allow you to edit anchor points of a Custom Shape (I don't know to what extent, though), but it doesn't have the tools and function to allow you to create your own vector-based objects.

Pen Tool Path HELP!

My Pen Tool path does not show while I'm using the pen tool. It wouldn't be that big of a deal but I can't see which points are where or where my ends are to connect them. I must have accidentally shut them off with a command or something but cannot find a command that would actually do that. Does anyone know what happened?

Thank you so much! You're a lifesaver!

Pen Tool & Paths-

Hello Photoshopers,
There is this really nice Harley-Davidson (actually, what Harley-Davidson isn't nice?!)…
I've been using the pen tool for almost a month now… I'm actually getting pretty good with it now, mainly using it to make my selections more precise… I haven't even bothered to try to draw with it, yet…
Anyway, I was already kind of sleepy when I started to outline the chopper with the pen tool… I got pretty tired & saved what I have done into a PSD…
I'm regretting it now, but… At the time, I didn't care if I would be able to pick right up where I left off…
In Illustrator I know it would probably save my anchor points…
When I click on my Path palette, I can see some of my outline… But, the rest of it is filled in with white as a shape…
With all of that said, in Photoshop… Is there anyway I can pick up where I left off tracing the nice Harley-Davidson?
Or…
Do I have to start all over?
FYI
I already tried to use the Direct Path tool & Direct Selection Tool… My anchor points remain hidden.

Okay, I did "Control Click" on the active icon in the Paths Palette… Just so you could see what I see in the Path Palette…
Like I said, I started to make the outline… Got tired and quit & saved it as a PSD hoping I could return later to finish with the outline…
When I opened the PSD, all of my anchor points disappeared… You can see the marching ants around the left side of the back tire going up around the top of the back tire on the way across the top of the chopper… I started feeling really tired and sleepy as the space between the handlebars… You can see the marching ants cut across the bike towards the bottom of the back tire…

Pen tool, paths behavior fix

1. if the line has no stroke applied to it, everytime you make a new line the previous segments disapears while you're holding down the mouse to create the next segment. What is the purpose of this feature?? I use 100% illustrator all 8 hours of my work day, and this gets on my nerves every time i use it. I like to draw with a 1px line for accuracy especially when creating clipping mask.
Some people suggest I work in outline mode, how about...no. Why should I go between viewing modes which is even more distracting.
2. holding down alt while with the pen tool should always switch to the direct selection tool. and not the regular selection tool. I realize this depends on what tool was used last. there has never been a circumstance where I wanted to alternate between solid selection tool and pen tool.
3. bleed and trim preview, similar to indesign.

Peter,Peter,Peter....
iNobody reads post #1.
That's not true. I read your post, and responded. But....thanks for your last post, because that's what it took for the light bulb to go on.
You see I never use "edit transform", I always just use the keyboard shortcut, cmd T, so when I read in your 1st post to use "edit transform" and select the path and use "edit transform" again, I didn't know you meant, (or) that there was a command "edit transform again".
Now I see what you where saying :-)
That works perfectly, but unfortunately only on one path, so my post #4 still stands. We need a way to transform and reposition all / or selected paths and link them to the object.
So again, Peter, thank you for your 1st. post!
Ann,
i Can you group the airbrushing paths by copying a bunch of them onto the same Path tile?
I've never done that so I'm not sure how to do it. Can you elaborate?
i And can you then turn the groups of airbrushing paths into an Alpha Channel or several Alpha Channels?
Do the alpha channels resize / position / transform when you do an "edit-transform"?
I could select a path, convert it into a selection, then save the selection as a alpha channel.
Because you can only select one path tile at a time, it it possible to add multiply paths / selections into one alpha channel?

[bug report] Making selection with pen tool causes 'jittery' edge

When I use the pen tool to create a path, and then make a selection from it and select inverse and delete the background, the result is a very un-even edge not the clean resullt you would expect, however if I make a mask from the same selection it looks fine.
Steps to recreate
1. Draw a simple path with the pen tool
2. Make a selection from the path, with 0 feather and anti alias turned on
3. Inverse selection (optional, same thing happens if you don't inverse)
4. Delete the rest of the image
5. The edge of the image now has an uneven, jittery edge
compared to mask
5. Undo the delete
6. Go to Channel Pallette, and make a mask from the selection
7. Edge of the mask should be clean like you would expect
You can exaggerate the jittery effect by adding feather the the path selection

Ok please Delete this I've sorted it. The blending mode had jumped to disolve.... but I 100% didn't change it to this myself, I wasn't even in the layer pallette at the time

Make selection with pen tool?

In photoshop, you can create a path with the pen tool and then make that path a selection as if you'd used the lasso tool. How do you turn a pen path into a lasso selection in Flash (CS4)?
Thanks,
Keith

Essentially, any path that you drawn in Flash, that you want to use to make a sub-selection of your artwork, has to be pasted onto your artwork layer and the "outside" portion deleted.
Let's say you imported JPG into Flash of a house, and you wanted to remove the background. First, break it apart so that it's a fill. Then, it can help to draw your manually-drawn pen selection on a new layer above. Once you have traced the house/drawn your selection (making sure it's a closed selection) , copy the lines and paste that onto your layer of artwork. Click outside of the selection and delete the edges.
One could also decide to fill the drawn selection lines, and use that as a mask for the artwork.
Flash has fewer of the drawing tools than Photoshop or Illustrator. But even if this doesn't answer your question, there is a way to do what you want.

Pen tool path colour

I've been requesting this since version 7, and usually chimed in whenever someone mentioned this. It gets requested often, for years, as far as I can remember, but has never been implemented. See below for a mockup I made up once. Add some preset colours and a custom colour swatch, show an indicator outline for the one you're using, and if possible add a "width" setting to expand the width of the path and use as a buffer to help ensure that you are actually cutting far enough into the object and not leaving any halos from the surrounding background.

tralap wrote:
Can you change the Path colour when drawing with the pen tool to something other than the default black
I'd interested in what version of Photoshop, and what operating system you are using? This used to be asked quite a lot, but the problem seemed to go away without my noticing. There were some issue a while back with CS5 and Macs, during which Jeff Tranberry suggested the oft banded advice to turn off Anto Aliasing in Preferences > Performance, but appart from producing a not so nice line, turning off AA doesn't seem to make any difference nowadays.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2868325
We know the line colour toggles between black and white depending on the colour behind it, so you'd expect the worst case to be around that close to 50% grey area. You'll need to click on to expand this test image to make it a fair demonstration, but it doesn't look so very bad to me. (Photoshop CC on Windows 7)

Pen Tool Path Prediction Missing (Show Edges doesn't fix it)

Hi all,
I just encountered a problem with Illustrator's pen tool that I don't know how to fix. As I am drawing a path, the path prediction is missing. Normally the path connects from your last point to your cursor and you can calculate where you want to place your next point.
Show edges does not solve the problem. Show edges is currently activated and the path prediction isn't visible.
Does anyone know how to fix this? A Google search didn't do me any good.
Thanks,
J

Monika Gause, Thanks for the suggestion. I am however on CC and do not see an option for rubberband. Any other ideas? This problem slows my work flow down drastically and is incredibly frustrating.

Please improve pen tool path closing behaviour

I am annoyed by losing the first point’s backwards bezier handle when closing a path with the Pen Tool.
This seems disrespectful to users who may have years of experience with vector graphics programs and therefore quite possibly set the first point’s bezier handles just as they want them to be.
Also the subject of this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3619783#3619783
The same seems to apply when picking up an open path – just because one has interrupted creation of a path does not mean the end points’ bezier handle should be disregarded on resuming adding points to that path.
Luckily the Photoshop team has not picked those … behaviours for their Path creation tools.

Another Illustrator upgrade, another disappointment …

Keeping brush selected with pen tool cs4

I like to use the pen tool with a selected brush, in previous versions was able to select a brush and
it would remain selected, but I can't find the a preference for that in cs4. any suggestions ?
thanks.

In the Appearance Panel Menu, uncheck "New Art Has Basic Appearance."

Is there a way to adjust the width of the pen tools path?

In CS4 and 5, it's super skinny. I appreciate the finesse but I'll be damned if I cant see it sometimes.
Is there a way to adjust a path's (so to speak) stroke while just drawing a path only with no fill or stroke?
I know you can change color dependent on the layer....

How can I delete the area which I have selected with Pen Tool?

Hi,
I have selected the particular area of my background image, which is just complicated. Now, I would like to delete the selection so that I will copy something else in that blank area. How can I delete the selected area?
Thanks.

Hobotor wrote:
Uhm you mean "rightclick---> make selection---> delete "?
Hi,
But I can't see such option. Please look below the snapshot:
I want to remove the existing image (Girl's Image) and insert some other image. Please help.
Thanks.

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