Drawing a straight-sided path outline

In this movie I'll show you the most basic thing that you can…do with a Pen tool which is to create a straight sided path outline.…So I'll start things out by selecting the Pen,…which you can get by pressing the P key.…And then you want to confirm that this first option…up here in the options bar is set to path.…Were it set to shape, then you would draw…a shape layer which would cover up the magazine article.…And wouldn't really do us any good for the purposes…of masking whereas when the option is set to path as…by default.…You draw a path outline with no fill or stroke, or anything associated with it.…

And it appears inside the paths panel.…So I'm going to go ahead and switch over to paths, like so.…So we can see this path outline emerge.…You also probably want to make sure that you're seeing large thumbnails.…And to do so right-click inside the paths panel.…And then select Large.…And that way you can better see what's going on.…Now I'm going to start things…off in this upper left corner. So I'm just going to go ahead and zoom in.…