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Creating an Embedded Clipping Path

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

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Create an Embedded Path

create a clipping path

Use an embedded clipping path to get rid of the background or "white rectangle" around an image.

Paths have many uses when editing images. In this step-by-step tutorial, we're creating paths to embed in an image for use as a clipping path in a page layout application - an embedded clipping path.

In our examples we'll be removing the sky in the background of a photo of the Capitol of Texas; but, embedded paths can be used to hide any portion of an image without altering the original.

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