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PingTheServer

May 2 2009, 07:40 PM

long time poster...but havent been here a while...so I lost my login info. Found out about this forum years and years ago from teamwarfare.com.....anyway

Could someone please explain to me what exactly the author is doing here in step #12?
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials-effects/...yled-wallpaper/

I can do everything else, but he's leaving something important out.

I am familiar with PS, but i cant seem to do what he's doing in this step. I've got the elipse, copied it, it makes a new layer for the pasted ellipse...but there's no way i can figure out how to select and/or fill the difference to color the thin slices.

Thanks in advance, adn its nice to be back using photoshop

**Edit**
Here's what I'm looking at - cant select/fill the difference in the ellipses.

PingTheServer

May 3 2009, 10:03 AM

fixed link...didnt realize it was broken

N4Z.

May 3 2009, 12:30 PM

I just checked the comments:

QUOTE

Now that you’ve created the two elliptical paths, you will need to select them with the ‘Path Selection Tool’ (cursor pointer black) and some tools options will be activated in the top, select ‘Exclude Overlapping Shape Areas’ (last button of the right), and then you have now the exclusion from both paths, the result isn’t visible until you fill the path, you can do this by going to the ‘paths’ tab and selecting the first icon from the bottom -> ‘fill path with foreground color’.

That's step 12 explained, hope this helps

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