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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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- [Instructor] 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. And 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. I'll tap the P key in order to select the pen tool and then we need to make sure that we have the Curvature Pen tool selected. I can click in order to set down my first anchor point and then click again to set down the second one. Photoshop will always draw a straight line between these first two points, but as soon as I click again, then I'm going to get the curve. If I want to close a path, I just need to click on the initial point and I…

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