Learn how to use the best tool in photoshop... The Pen-Tool!
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Step 1 In this tutorial I will teach you how to use maybe the best tool there is in Photoshop. But maybe also the hardest to learn.
I use this tool every time I use photoshop. For me the tool has no more secrets. And I want to achieve the same thing for you, because this is a GREAT tool to create vectors or to seperate a picture from the background!
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Step 2 When you select the standard Pen-Tool, you will have the oportunity to do many things.
Just click around and notice it works the same as the Polygonal Lass-Tool, only now you can scroll while selecting.
Notice the squares. These are Anchor-Points. More about those later!!!
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Step 3 If you click first somewhere in the screen, and then click, BUT you hold the mousebutton and drag the mouse across the screen. Notice that you can create a curve:
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Step 4 You can't create a straight line after a curve, therefore you must do something else first;
Hold ALT and drag the anchorpoint somewhere else;
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Step 5 Then click somewhere else and notice that you can create a new curve from a straight line!
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Step 6 The Freeform Pen-Tool can be used for many drawing-purposes. It works a bit the same as the pencil in Flash, because it tightens the lines you draw.
Not much cools can be done with this unless you're very skilled with a mouse or have a drawingtablet.
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Step 7 Select the +Add anchor-point-Tool and click anywhere on a line to create a new anchor-point to make a different curve or edit the current curve:
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Step 8 The +Remove anchor-point-Tool works the exact the opposite; click on an anchor-point to remove it and make the line continue along the other anchor-points!
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Step 9 The COnvert Point-Tool is used to modify existing anchor-points.
Just select the tool and click on an anchor-point. Then drag it around to change the curve:
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Step 10 Below you can see 3 different things I created with the Pen-Tool!
Good luck and I hope you will enjoy this tool as much as I do!
