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Smooth points and control handles - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Smooth points and control handles
I have saved my progress as Four- point template inside of the 2 _pen_tool folder, and in this exercise we are going to take this ellipse and notice I have restored an elliptical shape here, I just went ahead and back stepped a little bit. We are going to take this ellipse and we are going to modify using the White Arrow tool and only the White Arrow tool - we're not going to need the Pen tool for this project - In order to precisely or at least as precisely as possible fit the outline of this water drop. Now you may wonder why in the world I am calling this Four-point template. Well that's because there is a little bit of a cheat layer that I have included along with this file it's called points & handles and if you turn it on it shows you exactly where the points and handles ought to be located. If you ever want to see all of the points and handles at once let me go ahead and switch over to the Isolated drop.psd image, this is where I got those points and handles from. I will click…
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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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