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Photoshop Tips

The Pen Tool
The tutorial that many have been waiting for is the marvelous Pen Tool. It's a little tricky at first but after you learn how it works it becomes more easier and useful. I hope these tips will improve your ability working with this tool.

To start, Click and hold the mouse button down on the Pen Tool on the Tool bar. You will now see another bar pop out with more Tools, these all belong to the Pen neighborhood. I'll go over what each one does.

Animations were done with Adobe ImageReady 2.0. 
It comes with Photoshop 5.5

  The Pen Tool is used to make paths. A path is any line or shape you draw using the pen, magnetic pen, or free form pen tool. Unlike the bitmap shapes drawn by the pencil or other painting tools, paths are vector objects that contain no pixels. Once you have saved a path, you can store it in the Paths palette, convert it to a selection border, fill it with color or stoke the path outline with any color.
  The Magnetic Pen tool lets you draw a path that snaps to the edges of defined areas in your image.
  The Freeform pen tool lets you draw paths as if you were drawing with a pencil on paper.
   The Add-anchor-point tool lets you create an anchor point along any path.
   The Delete-anchor-point tool lets you delete an anchor path along any path.
   The Direct-selection tool allows you to modify the shape of the path. Use this to select a point along the path. You may move the whole path by selecting it and clicking on a part of it and dragging. Tip: When using the Pen tool, you can switch to the Direct-selection tool anytime by pressing the Ctrl. key. (Mac: Command)
   The Convert-direction-point tool lets you convert a smooth curve to a sharp curve or to  a straight segment, and vice versa.

 

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