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Pen Tool
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:43 pm
by omier
So i have done lots of stuff, but i've never used Pen Tool. I know loads of great things can be done with it.
So i wanna learn how to master Pen Tool, but i don't know where to start. So it would be great if anyone could point me in the right direction, and show what magic it can do.
Re: Pen Tool
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:34 pm
by SM-Count
overrated
*ducks*
Re: Pen Tool
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:22 am
by Skyve
As far as I know, the magic is as magical as you want it to be. It's mostly a "popular" tool because you can make any shape you want.
Re: Pen Tool
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:49 pm
by inky
Them glowlines lol.
A lot of people use it for making those lines + arrows. I rarely use it since I like making a collage out of different things. But it is a pretty useful tool when you apply some imagination into it. Fat lines, rounded edges or straight, feathered/soft or solid/precise, clip masked with something or glowing, etc, etc...
Re: Pen Tool
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:51 pm
by omier
Can u show me some examples, amazing pieces where Pen Tool has been used?
Re: Pen Tool
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:04 am
by Shomari
The pen tool is a mini-Illustrator inside Photoshop. You can create vectors and selections and monkeys and and and that's pretty much it.
Re: Pen Tool
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:02 pm
by inky
Errr pretty much almost every straight/curved line you see in PS are made using Pen tool. It can also be used to crop/cut-out images so that kind of includes almost everything (a lot better than the stupid Lasso tool). There are other ways to isolate images if you need really fine details, such as the hair or any ragged areas in the image that you need to cut out but for the purpose of making sigs, Pen tool would be sufficient for most.