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The Curvature Pen tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2025 Essential Training
The Curvature Pen tool
Photoshop's pen tools are the key to creating vector paths to draw shapes, cut out objects, or 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 any image quality. Now we're going to start with a curvature pen tool. And what I love about this tool is that we can just set down points and then kind of bend those points and pull them into any shape that we want. I'll tap P in order to select the pen tool, and then we need to choose the curvature pen tool. When we click in the image area, we will start our path and up at the top, we can see that I have it set to create a path, not a shape. So I'll click once, that starts it with an anchor point. Then I'll click again. And when I click the second time, we'll always get a straight line between the first and the second point. But as soon as I click for the third time, then we'll get our curve. I'll click again to set down another point and then…
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