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Drawing cusp points

Drawing cusp points - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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