From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Design
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Pen skills in practice - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Design
Pen skills in practice
- [Instructor] So now that we know how to make straight paths and curve paths and even change the direction of a path, 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 these guides in the template to help us to create our path. I'll use Ctrl + in order to zoom in, and then use the space bar in order to reposition the template. And I'm going to start at the top of the head on the left side, and just click and drag up with the pen tool. Then I can click and drag down on the next anchor point in order to start our curve, and then click again along the back of the head again following that template. However, now I'm going to run into a problem because I need this nice tight curve here, but I'm going to need a much longer curve on the other side. So I'll click and start dragging, watching the direction line opposite of the one that I'm dragging. So not the one in…
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