Preserved Topic: Drawing curves in PS

Hi, could anyone tell me how to do curves in Photoshop 6.0.1?I've been trying for years (lol ) now but still haven't figured it out...


1) THE PEN TOOL

- Must we necessarily start with the pen tool always? If so, what's the most direct procedure to making a curve?

- You can set "anchor points", but how do you use them? What are these "anchor points" for?

- After you have a path made, how do you "ink" it? There are options to "fill" the path using the airbrush tool & etc, but the effect is a curve that looks ragged. How do I produce a curve that's smooth (i.e. anti-aliased)?

2) THE ELLIPTICAL OUTLINE TOOL

- Is there any way we can trace the border of an elliptical outline we make so we get an outlined ellipse?


((( species X )))

Steve wrote a pretty good introduction to the Pen Tool,
you might want to check it out.


So long,
Tyberius Prime

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2) THE ELLIPTICAL OUTLINE TOOL
- Is there any way we can trace the border of an elliptical outline we make so we get an outlined ellipse?

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I think this is a serious case of RTFM!

Cell 769

The pen tool is a good tool to learn. It takes a while (I've been at it for a year or two and I'm still getting use to it!) but it does offer some huge advantages, namely it's ability to create complex yet controlabul curves.

Yes, I would say that RTFM is in order.

But since you asked so nicely, I would say 3 things -

1) http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/pen1intro.html (as has been said)

2) http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/shapes1.html

3) Edit >> Stroke

oh yeah, and 4) RTFM



[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 10-13-2002).]

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Is there any way to make the stroked outline jaggy, i.e. non-anti-aliased?

I've read thru the entire Pen Tools tutorial already, but I don't quite understand all of it. Most of PS is about self-experimentation, which is what I've been doing so far. My trouble mainly is with the different anchor points - creating a curve between just *two* points is no problem, but when I start having more than one point coming in, that's where it gets confusing. Sometimes the Pen Tool seems to have a mind of its own and more and more points start appearing. I don't know which is which, and sometimes it connects points which aren't in my original path (i.e. the "stretch" points) together for me, so I get a series of very, VERY confusing anchor points all over criss-crossing badly.

In most cases, I would like to create a complete work path and not an "open" one; the joining of the points is the tricky part - PS seems to want to join it for me (the little "empty circle" appears at the pen tip) even though I still wish to add several more anchor points before it...

((( species X )))

http://worldzone.net/arts/magician/odd1.htm

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Enjoy!

Thanks vogonpoet! That was EXACTLY what I was looking for! Text instructions accompanied by a non-jargon-ridden, step-by-step, hands-on (wow that's a lot of hyphens back there huh) view of what happens! The pen tool for dummies!

((( species X )))

Thanks VP! this one is going to my favorites. I been trying to figure the damn pan tool also...

MAX

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I been trying to figure the damn pan tool also...

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Now I have RTFM (for all the good it has done me) but I missed that one - is that for advanced wok work or what?

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Emp - that's in case you get hungry while working....

Honestly, I don't think you can "understand" the pen tool in every sense of that word. I read about a zillion tutorials on it (including the manual...), and none of them made sense until I took an existing picture and used the pen tool to trace the outline. It just clicked, and I understood it...
Now, what to do with it, that's an entirely different question...

[This message has been edited by bodhi23 (edited 10-18-2002).]