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00:00Hey there, welcome to another Photoshop tutorial from tutcast.com.

00:03The pen tool is probably one of the most difficult tools in Photoshop to use.

00:07It's a very complex and precise tool, and if you're not very well educated on how the

00:12pen tool works, it's going to be a pain to figure out how to use.

00:17But if you do know how it works, and you can use it properly, it's probably one of your

00:21best friends in Photoshop.

00:23And in this tutorial, I'm going to show you exactly how the pen tool works, and hopefully

00:27you'll learn some of the ins and outs of how to use the pen tool.

00:31Now the pen tool can be found in our tools palette.

00:33It can be accessed either by pressing the P key, or going over to the side here and

00:39clicking on this tool right here, which is our pen tool.

00:42Now at the top in our options bar, we have a few options.

00:45We have our shapes layer option, and we have our paths option.

00:50Those are the two main options that we're going to be discussing in this video.

00:53We're going to start off with the shapes layer.

00:56The shapes layer allows us to use our pen tool to create any sort of shape we want.

01:01Unlike the rectangle tool, which allows you to create predetermined shapes just like this,

01:05the pen tool will allow us to create vector shapes in any sort of shape we want.

01:10So if we grab our pen tool, and make sure that the shapes layer button is checked on,

01:14we can go ahead and start clicking, and create any sort of shape that we want in any shape

01:19and size, just like this.

01:22But the great thing about the pen tool is that we are not limited to creating polygonal

01:26shapes.

01:27The one that you just saw was polygonal, but if we wanted to create curves in our shape,

01:31we can very easily do that as well.

01:33Let me show you how that works.

01:35Let's say you're in the process of creating your shape, and you want to finish your shape

01:38with a curve.

01:39All you have to do is click on the last node here, and then drag your mouse.

01:43You'll notice that a curve starts to form.

01:45You can drag your mouse as far out as you want to create any sort of curve that you

01:49please, just like this.

01:52Now let's say you wanted to create some sort of a circular form.

01:56So for this example, I'm going to be going ahead and tracing out the bottom half of this

02:00orange down here at the bottom, to show you how to create a curvy shape using the pen

02:05tool, and I'm going to show you some of the problems that you may run into when using

02:09the pen tool.

02:10So I'm going to start off by making my first node right around here, and then I'm going

02:14to click and drag somewhere around this area to create our first curve.

02:19Now once that curve is finished, we're going to choose another curvy area somewhere around

02:23this area, and as you can see, it completes the curve for us.

02:28But we may run into a problem when we get to an area like this, a sharper area.

02:31We run into two problems here.

02:33Number one, we can't see where we're going to trace, and number two, when we start making

02:37our line, we have this big curve at the top right corner.

02:40We don't want that.

02:41So problem number one, we can't see underneath.

02:44There's an easy fix for that.

02:46On your keyboard, use the number keys to increase or decrease the opacity of your shape.

02:50So let's say we want to see through a little bit.

02:52We're going to go ahead and press the number four to decrease our opacity of this shape

02:56to 40%.

02:57If you want to increase it later on to 100%, press the number zero.

03:01So let's go back to 40%.

03:03So now that we can see through, we can continue tracing the bottom half of this orange, but

03:07we have a problem.

03:09If we go ahead and try and make a curve here, we have this big loopiness at the top right

03:14corner.

03:15We don't want that.

03:16So we're going to eliminate that curve for now.

03:18So we're going to hold down Alt on a PC or Option on a Mac and click on our last created

03:24node.

03:25This will eliminate the curve that we're about to make, and now we can go ahead with a fresh

03:30start and create a brand new curve just like this, and we can continue around the orange

03:38like that, and we have our completed shape using curves, using the pen tool.

03:43We can once again increase the opacity back to 100%.

03:46Now here's one thing that people get annoyed by.

03:49You can see this line going around our shape.

03:51That's just the path of our vector shape.

03:54To get rid of it, on a Mac, hold down Command Shift, on a PC, hold down Control Shift and

04:00press the letter H. That will hide or show the path of your vector shape.

04:05Now let's say you're not 100% happy with the curves of the shape that you just created

04:09and you want to edit them a little bit.

04:11Well luckily, there's a way to do that.

04:13If we head over to our tools palette, we can go ahead and grab our direct selection tool,

04:17which allows us to edit all aspects of our shape.

04:20We can go ahead and click on that, click on our shape, and then find any of the nodes

04:24that we want.

04:25So we can click on these nodes here, let's say we want to edit this curve right here.

04:28We can click on it, and we can edit the curve of both sides of the nodes, just like this.

04:33We can pull it any way we choose, we can decrease the curve, we can increase the curve, we can

04:38even move the curve up or down.

04:40So we have complete flexibility over how the curves of our object curve around the

04:44shape and we can control it any way we like.

04:48The only problem that you may run into is if you remember a few minutes ago when we

04:51eliminated one of the curves at the top here, we took this node and we eliminated the curve

04:56at the top.

04:57Right now you can't edit the curve right in this corner here, but if you hold down on

05:01a Mac, Command and Option, or on a PC, Control and Alt, we can go ahead and create a brand

05:08new curve by just dragging on that node like that, and we now have that curve back once

05:13again.

05:14So we can go ahead and control it like that, so it's not as sharp as it was before.

05:18But I'm going to go ahead and leave it the way it was.

05:20So if you're looking to edit any of the curves on your vector shape that you just created

05:24using the pen tool, definitely check out the direct selection tool, that will allow you

05:28to edit any of the curves and even add curves if you wanted to.

05:32One more thing I should note, if you right click on the path, we have a few other options.

05:36We can go ahead and add an anchor point so we can add more curves to our object, just

05:41like this.

05:42We can also define it as a shape.

05:45Once again, if you right click on your shape, you can go ahead and click on Define Custom

05:48Shape and name your shape Orange Peel, and it will save it to your shapes library so

05:54you can use it anytime you want in the future.

05:57And of course, one last thing I should probably mention, just like you can with other shape

06:01tools, you can go ahead and add to your shape area, you can subtract, you can intersect,

06:06and you can exclude overlapping shape areas, just like you can using your other shape tools

06:10and selection methods.

06:12And that's pretty much about it for creating custom shapes using the pen tool in Photoshop.

06:16We're now going to quickly discuss what the paths option is.

06:20Now unlike the shapes tool, we cannot create custom shapes using the path tool, but we

06:25can do a few other things.

06:26So let me go ahead and delete this layer.

06:28Now the path option works identical to the shapes option.

06:31So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to make sure to create a new layer.

06:33When you're creating a new path, it's always good to start it on a new layer, not the background

06:38layer.

06:39Now because the path option works identical to the shapes option, I'm going to quickly

06:42go around this orange and create the path, just like this.

06:47And you'll notice that this time it's not filling in with black because we're not creating

06:51a shape, we're only creating the path.

06:54So there we go, we have the path and you can see the path defined by the path that we can

06:58see around the orange.

07:00Now we have a few options this time, a few different options.

07:02We can go ahead and right click on our path.

07:05We can make it as a selection, as you can see we have our make selection dialog box.

07:09We can feather the radius, anti-aliased, any of these options here.

07:13We click OK and we now have a selection from that path.

07:17We can right click the path once again and choose fill path, but the problem with filling

07:21the path, we can fill it with foreground, background, a custom color, pattern, history,

07:25anything like that.

07:26The problem is, unlike using the shapes option, this is not a vector shape, so you can't resize

07:32it and keep the quality like you can when we created a custom shape using the shapes

07:36option in the pen tool.

07:38So that's another option.

07:40We can right click and then click stroke path.

07:42A lot of people wondered what this does.

07:45Basically we can use our brush settings, let me cancel out of this and go into our brush

07:48settings quickly.

07:50And here we have a 13 diameter pixel brush, hardness at 100%.

07:55Going back to the pen tool, right click, stroke path, and we can go ahead and fill

08:01it with our brush settings.

08:02Click OK and it will outline the path for us just like this.

08:06We can also choose to simulate the pressure.

08:10Stroke path, simulate pressure and click OK and you'll notice it kind of fades out towards

08:15the end just like that.

08:16So you can use the stroke path option to really make some nice designs using custom lines,

08:21using your brush settings or your pencil settings or anything like that.

08:24And once again, just like we're able to using the shapes option, we can right click, add

08:29anchor point or we can go ahead and use the direct selection tool to adjust curves on

08:34our path.

08:35We can also go to the top and add to our path, subtract, intersect or exclude just like we

08:40can using the shapes tool and most of the other tools in Photoshop.

08:44So that's pretty much it for the pen tool.

08:46It is a very confusing tool, very complex and very precise.

08:50It may take a while of playing with it to really get used to it, but if you do know

08:54how to use it properly, it can be one of your best friends in Photoshop.

08:58And until next time, this is Howard from tutcast.com.

09:01Take care.

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