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Drawing a straight-sided outline

Drawing a straight-sided outline - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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