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2. Re: How to make a vector into a shaper of transparency on a layer rather than shape of layer?
Astara_ Sep 11, 2011 6:44 PM (in response to MTSTUNER)Thanks!
I looked through the reference docs and couldn't find anything on how to do this. Is it in the reference docs anywhere, do you know? Or is just another one of those things that people learn, but Adobe doesn't document.
I can see if someone has 'grown up w/photoshop' and realizes what tools are "orthogonal" to other tools of those, which can have their settings altered to do something meaninful with the primary tool, it could be a powerful tool (and is touted as being so), but if you don't know the interconnects, it doesn't seem like they are well documented in the reference manual.
I wonder if Adobe might consider having someone like Grinder and Bandler** write a manual to bring people 'into' the photoshop world -- to
give people an awareness of which tools were orthogonal and retrain someone's mind to think in terms of building up an effect by combining different aspects of orthogonal tools. I wonder if it would even be possible to write such a book...(just some late sunday musings).
**-authors of Neurolinguistic programing books that try to impart or give others new ways of thinking about things (vs. imparting 'how to or factual knowledge)...
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3. Re: How to make a vector into a shaper of transparency on a layer rather than shape of layer?
PECourtejoie Sep 12, 2011 3:10 AM (in response to Astara_)I had to poke around quite a lot to find it: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-73a7a.h tml
But the help files are being re-organized in longer articles, rather than content that is spread apart. That is very welcome.





