Pen tool basics

- [Narrator] While I find that Photoshop's…Curvature Pen Tool is excellent for creating shapes,…when I need the most amount of control,…say for example if I'm trying to cut out an…object from the background or I'm trying to make a…vector mass then I will switch to the traditional Pen tool.…So I'll select the Pen tool from the toolbar…and I'm going to make sure that…I'm just drawing a path for right now.…Now when you draw with a pen tool to create a path,…if you just click you're going to set down an anchor point…or some people call these control points.…

If you click once with the Pen tool you get the anchor point…if you click again you get a straight line,…and if you click and drag you actually create…what's called a direction line which starts the curve…that you're going to continue with the next point.…Now the Pen tool's a little bit difficult to describe…but as you start working with it…you're going to get a feel for it.…It's kind of like learning how to ride a bicycle.…So I'm going to separate my path's panel from my layers panel…