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Drawing a curved path

Drawing a curved path - Photoshop Tutorial

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Drawing a curved path

- [Instructor] While creating straight-line paths just requires clicking the mouse, creating the curves paths take a little bit of practice because you need to click and drag in the direction that you want the path to go. I'm going to use the view menu and choose Show and then Guides. We can use the keyboard shortcut command and then semi-colon on Mac control, semi-colon on windows in order to show those guides. They're just going to help us as we drag our paths. I'll use command one in order to zoom in and then use the space bar to reposition this template file. I'm going to click on the first square and drag up. Now without releasing your cursor you're not actually dragging the path yet, you're dragging the direction line. I'm actually setting the direction for the way that I want the path to go, which is up. If I hold down the shift key then I can constrain that to a vertical or horizontal line. Then I'll release…

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