- Turn on the Stripes layer. Click the icon in front of the
Stripes layer to display a sequence of red stripes. I created the
top stripe by distorting a rectangle. Then I used series duplica-
tion to make the other four. - Set the Stripes layer to Multiply. Select the Stripes layer by
clicking it and then press Shift+Alt+M (or Shift-Option-M) to
burn the stripes into the background image. The result appears
in Figure 11-34. (Note: Your guides will still be cyan. I left mine
white so you could see them more easily in the colorful image.)
By now, you may have noticed Photoshop’s penchant for showing you
the outlines of your paths whenever you view a shape layer. To hide the
paths, click the vector mask thumbnail to the right of the color swatch
in the Layers panel. Alternatively, if the arrow tool or one of the shape
tools is active, you can press Enter or Return.Now suppose we want the stripes to vary in opacity, from nearly
transparent on the left to opaque on the right. One solution is to
fill the layer with a transparent-to-red gradient (Layer→Change
Layer Content→Gradient). But a more flexible solution is to add
a layer mask. This may seem like an odd notion, given that the
layer already has a vector mask. But any kind of layer in Pho-
toshop—even a text layer—can include one vector mask and
one pixel-based layer mask, thus permitting you to blend the
best of both worlds.Figure 11-34.Drawing and Editing Shapes 401