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Any suggestions for learning this tool? I attempted to use it this weekend and finally gave up. I understand that once you master it you will not want to be without it BUT..........how do you get there? Thanks

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Lee all weekend we have been going over the pen tool in Gare's section..... head over there and read the thread http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum/viewtopic.php?p=35218#35218 where Gare has done some drawings to show you how.

I finally got it....... over the weekend....... the penny dropped...... with practice and tortue :bustagut: :bustagut: :bustagut:
it was one tool that I never really bothered with because it can seem hard at first but now........ it doesn't seem so scary after all :bustagut: :bustagut: :bustagut:
sfm
 
Wendy - Thanks for the link. I'll read it this evening and see what I can do.

Sue - Thanks for your link, too. After reading gare's 'vector paths,' 'stroking vector paths' etc. (just to name a few of the terms I did not understand) I came to the conclusion that I need a drink........again. ;) Has anyone seen my IV?

I'll learn this thing if it kills me, though. Even if I never have any need for that tool I just want to master it because.....

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:righton: Lee. Im in the same boat as you, want to learn that darn pen tool. What ive been doing is reading all the info and just playing with it. seems to be a lot easier as I go along. Some great tutorials and help here. Thanks all.
Lee maybe we ought to start a thread showing our great pen tool work. Just kidding. :D
 
Great links Stroker! :righton: :righton: :righton:
 
Stroker, Thanks for the links. I'll take a look at those this evening. I appreciate you taking the time to post those. :)

Pakmn, Yeah, that'd be a great thread, wouldn't it? I can't speak for you but if I posted MY attempts at the pen tool these last few days it'd look like a map of Los Angles (and all's I was trying to do is draw a curved line). ;)

Did someone say PARTY? 8}
 
Evil Eyes

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This was done in illustrator with the pen tool,but same as the pen toolin photoshop. Its a tutorial. I found.
 
Thanks Gurch. I appreciate your support. I have been pretty quick to learn most things in PS but that pen tool has got me, I'm afraid. Probably mainly due to my lack of patience and the fact that I have no need for it right now. I guarantee you if I needed it to do a project I would be giving it a higher priority. ;)

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Well, I think learning the Pen tool boils down to the Ah-ha! moment. You know, an epiphany of how things work.

One day I sat down to play specifically with the Pen tool. I went through each tool in turn and figured out what it did. Once I understood Bezier curves, straight and corner, and how to manipulate them, it was all good.
 
hey Lee why don't you just grab a clip art image that has a plain background........ delete the background and then ctrl + click the layer to select what is left and then in your paths palet click the make work path down the bottom there and then play with the pen tool....... it may help you to understand it a bit more :B

PAKMN well done he he he
sfm
 
All this talk about the pen tool made me curious so I had a go with it.
Created some shapes and filled with an egyptian type of pattern , thern duplicated the shape and flipped it verticaly, joined the two together.
Not sure what I made [confused] kind of looks like an egytian bug of something :bustagut:
 
:) Great suggestion, Sue.... especially from somebody, like yourself, who has "been there"! ;) [excited]

;) Yep Lee... you gotta "play" BIG TIME when it comes to the pen tool! And then, one day, like Stroker says, it just kinda "clicks" and becomes second nature! :}

Believe me, there isn't a better "selection tool" around! ;)

Keep at it! :righton: :)
 
I agree with Stroker, too. I'm sure that is exactly what will happen. In most things I've learned in life it has been that...."ohhhhhh, I get it NOW! B7

Sue, that is a GREAT idea. 8) It least I'd have something to strive for other that to make lines on the screen. Just out of curiosity, though, why should I select the pen from the paths pallet? Is that a different pen tool than the one in the left hand tools pallet?

Wendy, the best selection tool? Wow. I never thought of the pen tool as a selection tool. Just a way to make graphics and shapes. That's interesting. :)
 
Looks good

Hey Rick
That looks real good. Like the egyption look. 8)
 
8[ Brave soul you are Lee! ;) :P We loves new "fodder" around here! :bustagut:
 
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