Knocking out a shape

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KEV_CHAMBERLAIN
Mar 20, 2009
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Using CS3 on a Mac 10.4.11

I can do this easily in Illustrator – using Pathfinder – but I’m stumped on how to do it in Photoshop

I have a solid colour rectangle which is a shape layer; from a photo I cut out the figure of a person, and I want to knock out the silhouette of the person into the rectangle so that I have a person-shaped-hole in the rectangle

Is it simple and I’ve overlooked something?
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Phosphor
Mar 20, 2009
Layer Mask. And you can turn a selection of the outline of the figure into a Path and subtract it from the Vector Mask path if need be.

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