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Drawing a straight-sided outline - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Drawing a straight-sided outline
In this exercise, I am going to show you the simplest method for using the Pen tool, which is to click with the tool to set down corner points. Each one of the corner points is automatically connected by a straight segment. We are going to be working inside of this image here. It's called Macworld April 1991.psd found inside the 27_pen_tool folder. This is a photograph of a magazine article that I wrote eons ago back in 1991, and this is the first time I wrote about Photoshop. So, I figured it'd be a great image to select in Photoshop. What we are going to do is extract this magazine from its background and then just set it against a white Background. Now, it's not entirely a polygon as you can see here. We do have some straight edges along the left side and the far right side, the bottom is a little bit straight but we've got a fair amount of curving here at the top. We are still going to do our best to trace the magazine using just straight segments. So, the first step is to go…
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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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