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Welcome to this lesson on creating a Vector Shape which we're using to create a selection from to then mask out the background of this car. It's the final lesson of this segment and where we will edit some of these nodes and then finish off with the mask. To briefly summarize I've got this group here which is my mask group, what I did was I duplicated my background and then created a New Show All Mask Layer and within that over a period time working on it I have several other Helper Layers of Vector Shapes that I've created and then other masks that I've completed this project with and I'm starting with a fresh mask here. Here's the Vector Layer which has this left side shape on it, I'm going to apply that and then zoom in. Alright so the second or the next step really is to edit this. Select the Pen Tool, enter Edit Mode, now Select the Shape and here you can see the lines and the nodes around that shape. I find a lot of times it helps me to turn off the background color of shapes to edit their nodes and sometimes you need to zoom in pretty close and simply select that Node, very carefully drag it to the location you want it to be at. It's sometimes easy to select the entire shape; if you click on the line itself you're going to move the entire shape. If you do that just Undo. I'll work through each one of these nodes just to make sure it's on the right line and exactly where I want it to be. This was a Vertex Node over here, a cusp, if I right click that, choose No Type, you can see that, that part is grayed out which means it's a Cusp Node, that means its got a line coming in before and after, there's no curved part to it. This node here is a Symmetric Node which means its got drag handles which help identify the curve as its coming into and out of this node. I can click on the Drag Handles and change the shape of the curve in addition to clicking on the Node and changing where that Node is on the curve of the car. Here's where persistence and patience pays off, if you need to change Node Types to Asymmetric let's say, if you've got a different curve coming into a node and then going out, you can edit that way. You can also convert Nodes to Cusp if you decide you don't want a curve coming in or out or in fact from Symmetric or Asymmetric you can change to a line before or after that Node and it takes a little bit of time and patience just to click on these Nodes, drag them to the right locations, making sure you're on the right path. Some of this depends on how well you accomplish the initial draw. Now here you can see I need to pull this up a little bit to get that line right on the edge of the car. Now this kind of editing with the Pen and creating with the Pen is sort of unusual compared to creating actual shapes that you're going to use in artwork or drawing. Because I really don't care about the appearance, in fact I'm not going to use this shape at all in the final scheme of things. I'm using it simply to create a very complicated selection. So I don't care what the line width is, I only care in so much as if I can see it on screen to edit, that's what I want. So if I change this line width to 6 you can see, actually I can see it better to Edit but is that covering up part of what I need to see, I think so. So I will pare that back down to one, it gives me a nice hairline line that I can use now to check the shape of this curve. Alright not too much editing involved for this but in practice in the actual creation of this I would spend a good deal of time going through each one of these points and making sure its exactly where I want it to be. Once it is I'll turn on this fill color which is a very important part of this step. If you don't turn the fill color on when you go to make a selection from this shape it won't select the interior, it'll just be a selection of a one or two pixel line around it. Now that, that is turned on I'm just going to make sure and apply here, let's Edit Mode again, we'll Select it, always make sure and select it before you make the selection. So our Layer Selected, our Shape within the Layer Selected. Let's go to Selections from Vector Object. Now I can turn this object off, I don't need anymore, I can select my Selection Tool. If I can zoom in now and see whether I made a good selection or not and if I need to I can just simply deselect here, Select none, go back re-edit my shape and start over. So to finish this we'll go down, very important, just like the mask now. Now what I do is delete, so I need to make sure that the background color is Black because that's what I want to hide, black mask hides, white mask allows things to show through. So with black in the background I'm simply going to press the Delete Key and that deletes all the material on this left side. Woops, created a Floating Selection there. I'm going to select none, zoom out here so you can see. Now I don't need to worry about this excess material reaching up and to the left, because at this point I can simply use the Free Hand Selection Tool, drag around it, very quickly press delete again and it's gone. The real, the hard part was using the Pen Tool to get around the side of that car. OK, I think we can wrap this lesson up, that's creating a shape with the Pen Tool to create a selection in order to mask out parts of this image.