- #EARSING WITH THE PEN TOOL IN PHOTOSHOP CC 18 HOW TO#
- #EARSING WITH THE PEN TOOL IN PHOTOSHOP CC 18 SOFTWARE#
Now, if you remember the Lasso tool, very simply makes free form selections. The first one in the fly out is the free form Pen tool. The fly out menu has four sub-tools, let's very quickly go over those, and let me find a blank document. 0122įirst off, the Pen tool down here in the Toolbox-you see it highlighted, the shortcut (let's just pick another tool) the letter P as in Paul or P as in pen, and there you have the Pen tool.
#EARSING WITH THE PEN TOOL IN PHOTOSHOP CC 18 HOW TO#
In the next lesson, I'll show you how to refine it, setting it down, modify it, and just hone things in, so let's get started. So I'm going to de-mystify that part of it, just show you the basics of using it in this lesson and then give you some examples of where you'd use it and show you how well it works.
In this lesson, we're going to show you what it does, how the actual tool works, and this is the key-most people don't understand how to use the tool, because if you don't understand what it does, then you get confused. You can do some of this with the other tools but the Pen tool predominantly does that. Now, the Pen tool specifically is best for super precise, smooth curved, sharp cornered, very complicated objects that need perfect long either smooth or hard edges. The Pen tool is without question the most powerful selection tool in Photoshop-it can select anything. We've also looked at the refine edge dialog box, we've discussed feather that allows you to play with your edges, all told you have almost all of the tools necessary to use in your arsenal to select almost anything efficiently and flawlessly with one exception. We've gone over the Marquee, the Lasso tools, Quick Selection, Magic Wand, we've looked at the Quick Mask feature which allows you to paint corrections to existing selections or paint new selections from scratch.
In the past several lessons, we have been learning how to make selections flawlessly so that you make your corrections and they blend and don't show any evidence of work. Welcome back to 's Adobe Photoshop CS6 course. Section 7: Layers, Layer Masks, & Composites
#EARSING WITH THE PEN TOOL IN PHOTOSHOP CC 18 SOFTWARE#
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