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The Curvature Pen tool

The Curvature Pen tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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The Curvature Pen tool

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- Photoshop's pen tools are the key to creating vector paths, to draw shapes, cut out objects, and create masks, and the best thing about making vector paths is that they're resolution independent, so we can scale them to any size without losing any image quality. Now, we're going to start with the curvature pen tool, and what I love about the curvature pen tool is that I can just set down points, and then kind of bend those points, and pull them into any shape that I want. So when I first sat down my first point, we just get one blue dot. That is our anchor point. I'll click again to set down another one, and at this point, the line will always be straight, but as soon as I click again, then we will get our curve, and every time I click, I will lay down another anchor point. If I want to close the path, I just need to position my cursor over the starting point, I'll get the little circle on the icon,…

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