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Drawing smooth points with the Pen tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Drawing smooth points with the Pen tool
I am still working inside Modified ellipse.psd found inside the 27_pen_tool folder and I'm in the middle of moving my cursor around with this rubber band thing hanging off of it. I am going to go ahead and delete what I've created so far, and notice this is an interesting behavior as you are deleting a path. If you press the Backspace key when you're in the middle of drawing a path, if you press the Backspace key or the Delete key on a Mac you're going to delete the last anchor point you created. And what that does is it also deactivates the rest of the path outline, which in my case is just one anchor point, but the entire remainder of your path outline is going to be selected and you press the Backspace key again a second time or the Delete key on a Mac in order to get rid of everything. So I'll show you that again, I'll just create a bunch of points here. And so the first time I press Backspace or Delete just the last point goes away. The next time I press Backspace or Delete the…
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Connecting the dots1m 40s
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The Pen tool and the Paths panel6m 31s
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Drawing a straight-sided outline6m 25s
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Editing a path outline6m 36s
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Adding and editing smooth points5m 35s
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Creating vector masks with the shape tools4m 59s
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Building a complex outline from shapes4m 26s
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Subtracting and transforming shapes6m 45s
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Cloning, flipping, and combining shapes8m 58s
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Roughing in non-symmetrical paths7m 41s
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Finessing a complex outline9m 15s
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Masking a layer effect8m 26s
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Isolating an image element6m 8s
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Smooth points and control handles9m 3s
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Stretching curved segments7m 49s
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Using the Rubber Band option9m 33s
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Drawing smooth points with the Pen tool6m 59s
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Shading an isolated object3m 45s
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Drawing cusp points7m 13s
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Setting points in the pasteboard9m 57s
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Using the Convert Point tool6m 42s
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