Pen Tool in Photoshop

In today's session we will learn about pen tools. How and where PEN TOOL is used.

Lets learn pen tool deeply.

In pen tools there are three different options: shape, path and pixel.

The Path that we saw at the time of selection, click and drag this way, pull the handle and draw.

If you want to cut the handle, you can cut the handle by pressing the alt.

And can draw your path.

Also I told you that you can select a path from the path selection tool.

We will delete that from here.

Now When we draw the path, as you saw only its lines are drawn.

I will select this through the path selection tool, after selecting i will right click here.

See I am given some options here, as first option is “add anchor tool”

See here an anchor means a point will be added automatically.

If you want to set this point manually or want to change the shape then here you are given here direct selection tool.

You can use this.

With the help of a direct selection tool, you can hold any anchor point.

Move and Change the shape accordingly

See in this way.

Again let’s select from path selection tool, right click and delete path.

As we will select ‘delete path’ the path will be deleted.

Here is one more option given, “define custom shape” which is in edit after ‘define pattern’.

Dine custom shape.

You can select ‘define custom shape’ by right clicking here.

Give the name here you want and click ok.

It will go in custom shape leather.

Now what is custom shape?

That we will learn after some time.

First Let us understand more options given in this.

Like After that comes ‘make selection’ that we already learnt previously.

You are also given the option of ‘Feather radius’.

If you want to feather, you can do feather also.

Advantage of feather is, at the time of cutting, the border will get blurred.

Next is fill path.

We already learned fill and path in edit.

fill and stroke.

 In the same way there is a stroke path, but slightly different,you want it's stroke as pencil or brush or whatever way you want, you have to mention it here.

You can create your path through pencil, see its outline drawn in this way.

Right click, free transform path.

Free transform is specially for path, you can do free transform with the path.

In this way. Enter it.

The next option here is shape in pen tool.

With the help of this, Automatically color will be filled in the shape you draw.

See in this way i will draw here, as my drawing will be completed.

In this way the color is filled automatically.

Rest select and right click, options will remain the same.

If you want to stroke with the fill color, here option of stroke is given, fill the color in that.

Stroke means if you also want to increase the size of its outline, small, thick, as much as you want to make it thick, you can.

Lets keep it 2.5 for now and if you wish to change its style you can.

See i will draw from here.

See the outline is coming accordingly as we defined.

So in this way you can draw.

Ok In the pen tool you have given some more tools like free form pen tool.

This is a full free hand tool.

You can draw and design according to yourself.

After that is add anchor point tool.

Whatever you have drawn, in that, you can add anchor points wherever you want.

After adding you can make changes using direct selection tool.

You can delete any anchor point with ‘delete anchor point’.

You can adjust handle of any point using Convert anchor tool.

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