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Pen skills in practice

Pen skills in practice - Photoshop Tutorial

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Pen skills in practice

- [Instructor] So now that we know how to make straight paths and curved paths and even change the direction of paths, let's go ahead and put it all to use. We're going to create the shape of a duck and we're going to use all of these guides that are in the template to help us create our path. So with the pen tool selected, I'll start at the top of the head and I'm just going to click and drag up using those guides. Now I need the path to go up, so that's why I dragged up. Now I need the next direction to go down so I'll click on the second point and just drag down. Now as I drag down, I'm always looking back at the line segment that's being drawn, right, as I reposition this point. So even though I'm drawing the direction line forward for the next path, I'm paying attention to the line it drew behind. All right, now I'll click on this third anchor point here and because there's not much of a curve, I don't need a very…

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