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Step Five: If necessary, use the Direct
Selection tool to reposition points
on the path. Begin by activating the
Direct Selection tool (circled here).Step Six: Click the point you want
to adjust—it becomes solid, but the
rest of the points are see-through.
If the point has control handles,
you’ll see those too. Now drag
the point, or one of its handles, to
adjust its position. Adjust the other
points as necessary. Remember to
Spacebar-drag to reposition the
photo as you go.Step Seven: Switch to the Pen tool,
trot up to the Options Bar, and click
Mask. Photoshop adds a vector mask
to the stone layer and the back-
ground becomes transparent. The
points and control handles are now
preserved in a vector mask, enabling
you to continue adjusting them even
after you save and close the docu-
ment (to do that, click to activate the
vector mask in the Layers panel and
then use the Direct Selection tool).