Hi all, first time poster here. Quick background info: I'm a PhD student working in neuroscience, but I'm somewhat computer illiterate as far as Photoshops/Illustrator and the likes goes. For my current project, I need to be able to outline several anatomical landmarks on an anatomical MRI scan (which I can transfer to Photoshop just fine), and then copy all these outlines on a "blank" image. An easier to understand analogy would be this: I have an image of a worldmap, I want to outline a number of countries on this map, and then transfer the outlines to a blank document. However, here's the important part: the relative distance (the spatial relation) between the outlines have to stay the same while transferring the outlines. I'm going to be using these outlines to calculate positions in the brain, so as you can imagine I don't want to mess up the relative position of each outline.
I've just started working with Photoshop 5.5, and have managed to do the following:
- transfer scan image to photoshop
- outline individual parts of the brain, and save these outlines as "paths"
- transfer paths to a blank document.
What I'm having trouble with, and would like to sollicite some help from you kind people is:
- what the "proper" way to transfer paths between documents is (I'm currently doing it in an extremely roundabout way, so a little guidance on the "proper" way to do it would be nice)
- how to transfer all of my paths to a blank document, keeping the relative distances between the outlines the same. Again, I can't afford to have the outlines shift while transferring them
- displaying all the outlines on one layer. I can only seem to get PS to display one path at a time, even when I try to copy all the paths to a single layer.
I'd read a manual, but our lab has long since lost the manual for Photoshop, so I'm slightly stuck here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a ton in advance,
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