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Drawing a complex path

Drawing a complex path - Photoshop Tutorial

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Drawing a complex path

- [Instructor] All right, now it's time for us to learn to draw some more complex paths, and we're going to learn a few keyboard shortcuts as well, because we need to figure out how to convert a curved path to a corner point and also how to split a direction line. So I want to zoom in by using Command + 1 on Mac, Control + 1 on Windows, and then use the space bar to reposition the template so we're looking at the complex path area. In the Path panel, I want to make sure that I don't have any of my paths targeted. And then I'll click with the pen tool on the initial anchor point and then click again on the second anchor point in the template. Now, to add another anchor point in the middle, I'll just click in between, but you can see if I click and drag, I've actually deleted the anchor point and I'm just dragging out the direction line. That's not what I want to do, so I'll use Command + Z in order to undo that. And…

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