Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 389)

382 USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Drawing
Last updated 1/10/2010
2 Choose a shape area option in the options bar:
Add To Shape Area Adds the path area to overlapping path areas.
Subtract From Shape Area Removes the path area from overlapping path areas.
Intersect Shape Areas Restricts the area to the intersection of the selected path area and overlapping path areas.
Exclude Overlapping Shape Areas Excludes the overlap area.
Show or hide the selected path component
Do one of the following:
• Choose View > Show > Target Path.
• Choose View > Extras. This command also shows or hides a grid, guides, selection edges, annotations, and slices.
Move a path or path component
1 Select the path name in the Paths panel, and use the Path Selection tool to select the path in the image. To select
multiple path components, Shift-click each additional path component to add it to the selection.
2 Drag the path to its new location. If you move any part of a path beyond the canvas boundaries, the hidden part of
the path is still available.
Dragging a path to a new location
Note: If you drag a path so that the move pointer is over another open image, the path is copied to that image.
Reshape a path component
1 Select the path name in the Paths panel, and use the Direct Selection tool to select an anchor point in the path.
2 Drag the point or its handles to a new location.
Merge overlapping path components
1 Select the path name in the Paths panel, and select the Path Selection tool .
2 Click Combine in the options bar to create a single component from all overlapping components.
Copy a path component or path
Do any of the following:
• To copy a path component as you move it, select the path name in the Paths panel, and click a path component with
the Path Selection tool
. Then Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the selected path.
• To copy a path without renaming it, drag the path name in the Paths panel to the New Path button at the bottom
of the panel.