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Stretching curved segments - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Stretching curved segments
I am still working along inside Four- point template.psd found inside the 27_pen_tool folder and, I am busy at work adjusting the curvature of the segments associated with this former ellipse, so that they match the contour zigzagged boundary in fact of this water droplet. So I am going to drag this control handle here upward, so it matches the red control handle and I should get a cyan result as I am seeing there. Bear in mind that we are dragging the gray points and handles we are not dragging the red ones. Now here is something else you can do. In addition to dragging around points and dragging handles as well you can drag a segment directly. So notice I can go ahead and drag that segment and adjust its curvature directly. Now this only works I should say with curving segments. If you have a straight segment you are not going to be able to drag it and add curvature to it. But the interesting thing here is, notice if I go ahead and drag too far, that I am going to once again cross…
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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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