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Learning the Adobe Pen Tool

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Adobe Courses Digital Drawing Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to draw with the Pen tool more effectively in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. The Building Blocks of Path Outlines
  • Meet the Black and White Arrow tools
  • Anchor points, segments, and control handles
  • The three kinds of anchor points
2. Using Anchor Points and Control Handles
  • Working with corner points
  • Adding and deleting anchor points
  • Working with smooth points
  • Adding some random wiggle
  • Working with cusp points
  • Creating cusps by subtracting shapes
  • Creating cusp points with the White Arrow
  • Turning a circle into a droplet
3. The Many Ways to Use the Arrow Tools
  • Getting to the Arrow tools on the fly
  • Selecting and deselecting
  • Selecting inside groups and compound objects
  • Special ways to drag
  • Creating cusps in Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop
4. Meet the Pen Tool
  • Introducing the Pen and precise cursors
  • Communicating with the Pen tool
  • Extending an active path outline
  • Drawing vector-based paths in Photoshop
  • Completing an open path outline
  • Extending a dormant path outline
  • Connecting two open paths
5. Advanced Pen Tool Tricks
  • Undoing an anchor point versus deleting it
  • Repositioning points and segments as you draw
  • Real-world moving and nudging
  • Inserting and deleting points on the fly
  • Real-world inserting and deleting
  • The spacebar versus very small drags
  • Four unrelated Shift key tricks
  • Converting points with the Pen tool
  • Converting multiple points with a single click
Conclusion
  • Until next time

Taught by

Deke McClelland

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