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Drawing cusp points - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Drawing cusp points
In this exercise, we're going back to that project that I introduced at the outset of the chapter. We're going to trace along the boundary between this guy's face and the background, so that we can extract away the background using the Pen tool. This is going to be more elaborate than what we attempted with the droplet, not only because it requires more points, but also because we'll be working with a couple of different varieties of points. So we'll need smooth points of course for the continuous contours along his cheek, for example, and his ears, and along the sweater as well, but we'll also need a special variety of corner-point called the cusp point that has control handles associated with it. It's ultimately a corner at the intersection of two curving segments. We've got quite a few of those up here at the top of the ear, over here on the side of the ear, at the top of the cheek, down here at the base of the jaw, and so on. So let's get to work. To help you out, I've once again…
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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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