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Drawing curves with the Pen tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training
Drawing curves with the Pen tool
- [Instructor] While creating straight line paths just requires clicking the mouse, creating curved paths takes a little bit more practice because you need to click and drag. Now I want to make sure that we don't have any paths selected. So in the Paths panel, I want to make sure that Path 2 or Path 1 is not selected. So we'll just click in that gray area. Then I'll use the View menu and then Show because I want to show some guides that are going to help us to draw these paths. I'll use Command + 1 in order to zoom in and navigate over to the curved path area. Now when you're drawing curved paths, you actually have to click/drag without letting go of your cursor. So I'll tap the P key to select the Pen tool, and I'll click/drag up to start the curve. in the upwards direction. I can hold down the Shift key if I want to constrain that to a vertical line. Then I'm going to click and drag down because I want the next path…
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