Epson Photo Plus - PhotoPlus Color Photo Scanner User's Guide download pdf (Page 166)

154 Painting and Drawing

To switch off the layer effect:

With the layer selected, click the Layer Effects button and uncheck

Outline in the Layer Effects dialog.

Using paths

Paths are basically outlines. As such, every filled shape you draw has a path—

namely the outline that defines it. In fact, each shape layer has its own path

thumbnail next to the layer name, representing the shape(s) that reside on that

layer. But more significantly, the concept of a path extends to independent

paths: unfilled outlines that don't reside on any particular layer, but which are

created separately and can be applied in various ways to any layer.

What are paths good for? Consider the precision and editability of vector-based

drawing and apply it to the concept of a selection. Now think of all the ways that

selections can be used (and reused). In PhotoPlus, selections and paths are

interchangeable.

In much the same way as layers in the

Layers tab, independent paths are listed

in the Paths tab, depicted with their own

name and the path outline shown in the

path's thumbnail.

If hidden, make this tab visible via

Window>Studio Tabs.

There are two methods for creating a path. You can create:

a path outline directly from drawn QuickShapes (see Path 2's Quick Star

above) or outlines.

a selection on your image from which the path outline can be created (see

Path 3).

Either way, once you've got a path outline, you can reshape it (using the Outline

tools), convert it to a selection, create a filled bitmap, or stroke a path—that is,

draw the path onto a bitmap layer using the current brush. Paths are saved along

with the image when you use the .SPP format.

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