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The Curvature Pen tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training
The Curvature Pen tool
- [Instructor] Photoshop's pen tools are the key to creating vector paths, to draw shapes, cut out objects and create masks. And the best thing about making vector paths is that they're resolution independent, so we can scale them to any size without losing image quality. Now we're going to start with the Curvature pen tool. And what I love about the Curvature pen tool is that I can just set down points and then kind of bend those points and pull them into any shape that I want. So from the toolbar, I'll select the curvature pen tool. I'll click once to start the path. I'll click again to set down a second point. And this path will always be straight, but when I click again, it will go to a curve. In order to close the path, I'll click on the initial control point. And if I want to reposition the path, I can just click and drag. I know that this control point is the targeted point because it's filled with blue, unlike…
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