# A little help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-little-help/28195>\
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**Created:** [August 11, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-little-help/28195 "2003-08-11T06:43:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![snaxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@snaxs](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snaxs)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-little-help/28195/1 "2003-08-11T06:43:53Z")

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hey i am stuck ! 👽

i want to make this effect. [here](http://www.teamphotoshop.com/)

underwater effect on a photo.

is a photo that looks like the girl is underwater. so i started and got stuck on 2 step 😊 i started making my water effect with the pen tool, but instead looking like the picture in the example the pen tool cut the selection and colored black,. so i don’t know if thats normal or if theres another way to do this hope you understand what i am saying. if not would like it if someone could explain alittle more detailed.  
Thanks alot.😏

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-little-help/28195/2 "2003-08-11T07:52:00Z")

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hmm not sure what you mean by ‘cut the selection’

you should just get the pen tool (if you don’t know how to use this do a search! there are plenty of tutorials and threads about it) and draw a path like they show. You shouldn’t have any problems if you do that…

and as for another way to do that… theoretically you could just get a normal selection tool and draw the wiggly line, but later on you reuse the selection, so it really is more practical to do it this way (and it’s a good skill to know)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-little-help/28195/3 "2003-08-11T14:26:29Z")

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It goes black because you’ve got it set to make a shape, change it to make a selection instead, it’s near the top somewhere.

- Soul :s:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-little-help/28195/4 "2003-08-11T14:52:51Z")

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soul is right i attached a screen capture of the one you want. it is in th upper left hand corner

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-little-help/28195/5 "2003-08-11T18:58:56Z")

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exactly !!! Thats what i was missing I din’t change that option.  
thanks alot all of you and thanks for the attachment.