From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design
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Drawing curved paths - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design
Drawing curved paths
- [Instructor] While creating straight line paths just requires clicking the mouse, creating curved paths takes a little bit more practice, because we need to click and drag. Now, I want to make sure that I click off any of the paths in the Paths panel so that they're not selected, and then zoom in twice using Command + Plus and use the spacebar in order to view this first curved path. I'm also going to select View, and then Show, and then Guides so that we have some guides that we can use as we draw. Now, to create a curved path, you actually have to click and drag without letting go of your cursor. So I'm going to click on this first black square and drag up. But what I'm dragging is not actually a path. It's a direction line with a direction point at the end of it. And I'm dragging it in the direction that I want the curve to go. I'll go ahead and release the cursor. And the direction is going to go up, because I…
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