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Drawing complex paths - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training
Drawing complex paths
- [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 vice versa, and how to split direction lines. And I find that it's much more efficient to do this using shortcuts than to have to constantly select different tools. So I'll use Command + 1 to zoom in, and then we can scoot over to these complex paths. I'll tap the P key to select the Pen tool, and then I'm going to click one anchor point and then another. And then we'll just add an anchor point in the center. I'll hold down the Command key on Mac, Control Key on Windows, just to reposition this, and this is great. We've got a nice curve, but now I want to convert it into a corner point. So to do this, we could return to the Pen tools and select the Convert Point Tool, but there's a keyboard…
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