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How To Draw Curved Lines In Photoshop

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    1. Paint symmetrical patterns
    2. Draw rectangles and modify stroke options
    3. About drawing
    4. Draw and edit shapes
    5. Painting tools
    6. Create and modify brushes
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Photoshop provides multiple Pen tools to adjust your employ cases and artistic mode:

  • The Curvature Pen tool lets you intuitively draw curves and straight segments.
  • The standard Pen tool lets you draw straight segments and curves with slap-up precision.
  • The Freeform Pen tool lets you draw paths as if yous were drawing with pencil on a slice of paper.
  • The Magnetic Pen options permit you lot draw a path that snaps to the edges of the divers areas in your image.
  • The Content-Aware Tracing tool lets you automate the process for tracing images. (Technology Preview)

Use the Shift+P central combination to cycle through the tools in the Pen group.

Bicycle through the Pen tools using the Shift+P key combination

You tin apply the pen tools in conjunction with the shape tools to create circuitous shapes. For more data near the modes in which you can draw with the Pen tools, come across Cartoon modes.

Before cartoon with the Pen tool, you lot can create a new path in the Paths panel to automatically salvage the piece of work path as a named path.

Content-Aware Tracing Tool

The Content-Aware Tracing Tool is existence introduced as a Technology Preview in the Oct 2020 release of Photoshop and lets you create vector paths and selections by merely hovering over the edges of your image and clicking.

You can enable the Content-Enlightened Tracing Tool in Preferences > Technology Previews and then restart Photoshop.

Try out the Content-Aware Tracing Tool by post-obit the below five unproblematic steps:

  1. From the Pen tools group, select the Content-Enlightened Tracing Tool.

    Content-Aware Tracing Tool

    Content-Enlightened Tracing Tool
  2. Hover the cursor over the edge of an object to highlight information technology.

    Content-Aware Trace Pen Tool

    Highlight epitome edges

    Different zoom levels will bear upon how Photoshop sees your image and thus how the tool identifies edges.

    For instance, if you're working with a lower resolution image, zooming out may aid Photoshop easier identify an edge. Zooming in (100% or more) will result in the tool using the default one-1 pixel resolution for identifying the edges.

  3. Click on the highlighted department to create a path.

    Content-Aware Tracing Tool

    Click highlighted edges to create a path
  4. To add together to the path, hover over an adjacent edge to highlight a new section and hold the Shift key while clicking to extended the path. The pink line that appears indicates that you're adding a new section to the existing path.

    Content-Aware Tracing Tool

    Agree Shift and click to extend your path
  5. To delete an area from the path, concord downwards the Alt cardinal (Windows) or Option key (Mac) while you lot click. Y'all can also click and drag in a direction to remove larger sections.

    Content-Aware Trace Pen Tool

    Use Alt or Option while clicking to delete part of the path

Detail

While adjusting the Item slider, Photoshop displays a preview of the edges that Photoshop sees. Moving the slider to the right increases the corporeality of edges Photoshop detects and moving to the left decreases the corporeality of detected edges.

Detail Slider

Detail slider

Tracing

Tracing modes (Detailed, Normal, and Simplified) adjust how detailed or textured the paradigm is prior to processing the tracing.

Tracing

Tracing modes

Use Tracing together with the Detail slider to achieve your desired edges.

Curvature Pen tool

The Curvature Pen tool lets y'all describe smooth curves and straight line segments with equal ease. Create custom shapes in your designs or define precise paths to effortlessly fine-tune your images using this intuitive tool. While doing so, create, toggle, edit, add together, or remove smoothen or corner points without e'er having to switch tools.

  1. From the Pen tools group, select the Curvature Pen tool.

  2. To create the first anchor point, click or tap anywhere in the document.

  3. Click/tap again to define the second anchor point and complete the outset segment of the path. Click once (default) if you want the adjacent segment of your path to be curved. Double-click if you want to draw a direct segment side by side.

    The first segment of your path e'er appears as a straight line on the sail initially. Depending on whether you lot draw a curved or a straight segment side by side, Photoshop adjusts it later. If the side by side segment you draw is curved, Photoshop makes the kickoff segment curve smoothly in relation to the next segment.

  4. (Curved path) Using a mouse or on a bear on device, elevate the pointer to draw the next segment of your path. While the mouse button is pressed down, optimize the curve of the segment. The previous segment is automatically adjusted to keep the curve smooth.

    Optimize the curve of the segment while the mouse button is pressed downwardly.
  5. (Curved path) Release the mouse button to drop the anchor point and complete the 2nd segment.

  6. Draw additional segments and complete the path.

  7. When yous're done cartoon, press the Esc cardinal.

  • While dropping an ballast indicate, click once if you want the adjacent segment of your path to exist curved. Double-click if you want to draw a straight segment side by side. Photoshop creates smoothen or corner points accordingly.
  • To catechumen a smooth anchor signal to a corner point, or vice versa, double-click the point.
  • To move an anchor point, merely elevate it around.
  • To delete an ballast point, click it and then printing the Delete key. While the anchor point is deleted, the curve is retained and suitably adjusted in relation to the remaining anchor points.

Actress ballast signal

Extra ballast point deleted; the curve is suitably adjusted
  • Drag an anchor point to conform the bend. When you adjust a path segment in this manner, the adjoining path segments are automatically modified (rubber-band effect).
  • To innovate an additional anchor point, just click in the eye of a path segment.

"Rubber band result"

The simplest path you tin can draw with the standard Pen tool is a direct line, made past clicking the Pen tool to create two ballast points. By standing to click, you create a path made of straight line segments connected by corner points.

Photoshop Pen tool

Clicking the Pen tool creates straight segments.
  1. Position the Pen tool where you lot want the direct segment to brainstorm, and click to define the first anchor point (practice not drag).

    The commencement segment you draw will not be visible until you click a 2nd ballast point. (Select the Rubber Ring option in Photoshop to preview path segments.) Also, if management lines appear, you lot've accidentally dragged the Pen tool; choose Edit > Undo, and click again.

  2. Click once again where you want the segment to end (Shift-click to constrain the angle of the segment to a multiple of 45°).

  3. Continue clicking to set up ballast points for additional directly segments.

    The last anchor point you add always appears as a solid square, indicating that it is selected. Previously defined anchor points go hollow, and deselected, as you add more than anchor points.

  4. Complete the path by doing 1 of the following:

    • To shut the path, position the Pen tool over the get-go (hollow) anchor betoken. A small circle appears next to the Pen tool pointer when it is positioned correctly. Click or elevate to close the path.

    • To go out the path open, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) anywhere away from all objects.

    To exit the path open, you tin can also select a different tool.

You create a curve past adding an anchor point where a curve changes management, and dragging the direction lines that shape the bend. The length and gradient of the direction lines make up one's mind the shape of the curve.

Curves are easier to edit and your system tin display and impress them faster if you draw them using as few anchor points as possible. Using likewise many points tin can besides introduce unwanted bumps in a curve. Instead, draw widely spaced anchor points, and practice shaping curves past adjusting the length and angles of the direction lines.

  1. Position the Pen tool where you want the bend to brainstorm, and hold down the mouse button.

    The first ballast bespeak appears, and the Pen tool pointer changes to an arrowhead. (In Photoshop, the arrow changes only after you've started dragging.)

  2. Drag to ready the slope of the curve segment you're creating, and and then release the mouse button.

    In general, extend the direction line about 1 tertiary of the distance to the next ballast bespeak you plan to draw. (You tin adapt one or both sides of the direction line after.)

    Hold down the Shift key to constrain the tool to multiples of 45°.

    Photoshop Drawing the first point in a curve pen tool

    Drawing the kickoff point in a curve

    A. Positioning Pen toolB. Starting to drag (mouse button pressed)C. Dragging to extend direction lines

  3. Position the Pen tool where you lot desire the bend segment to cease, and exercise one of the following:

    • To create a C‑shaped curve, drag in a direction opposite to the previous direction line. Then release the mouse button.

    Photoshop pen tool second point in a curve

    Cartoon the second point in a curve
    • To create an S‑shaped curve, drag in the same direction as the previous direction line. Then release the mouse push.

    Photoshop pen tool Drawing an S curve

    Drawing an S bend

    To modify the direction of the curve sharply, release the mouse push button, and then Alt-elevate (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac Bone) the direction bespeak in the management of the curve. Release the Alt (Windows) or Choice (Mac Os) key and the mouse push, reposition the arrow where y'all desire the segment to end, and drag in the opposite direction to consummate the curve segment.

  4. Continue dragging the Pen tool from unlike locations to create a series of smooth curves. Annotation that you are placing anchor points at the beginning and finish of each curve, not at the tip of the curve.

    Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) direction lines to pause out the direction lines of an ballast point.

  5. Complete the path by doing i of the post-obit:

    • To shut the path, position the Pen tool over the first (hollow) anchor bespeak. A modest circle appears side by side to the Pen tool pointer when it is positioned correctly. Click or drag to close the path.

    • To leave the path open, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac Os) anywhere away from all objects or select a different tool.

Depict direct lines followed past curves

  1. Using the Pen tool, click corner points in ii locations to create a straight segment.

  2. Position the Pen tool over the selected endpoint. A minor diagonal line, or slash, appears next to the Pen tool. To set the slope of the curved segment you'll create next, click the anchor point, and drag the direction line that appears.

    Photoshop pen tool Drawing a straight segment followed by a curved segment

    Drawing a directly segment followed by a curved segment (part one)

    A. Directly segment completedB. Positioning Pen tool over endpointC. Dragging direction point

  3. Position the pen where you lot want the next anchor indicate; then click (and drag, if desired) the new anchor signal to complete the curve.

    Photoshop pen tool Drawing a straight segment followed by a curved segment

    Cartoon a straight segment followed by a curved segment (part 2)

    A. Positioning Pen toolB. Dragging direction lineC. New curve segment completed

Draw curves followed by straight lines

  1. Using the Pen tool, drag to create the first shine point of the curved segment, and release the mouse push button.

  2. Reposition the Pen tool where you lot desire the curved segment to end, drag to consummate the curve, and release the mouse push.

  3. Select the Convert Betoken tool from the toolbox, and then click the selected end point to convert it from a smooth point to a corner bespeak.

    Printing Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac Bone) to temporarily change the Pen tool to the Convert Betoken tool.

  4. Select the Pen tool from the toolbox, position the Pen tool where yous want the straight segment to terminate, and click to complete the straight segment.

Describe two curved segments connected by a corner

  1. Using the Pen tool, elevate to create the get-go smooth point of a curved segment.

  2. Reposition the Pen tool and drag to create a curve with a second shine point; then printing and hold Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and drag the management line toward its opposing end to set the gradient of the adjacent curve. Release the key and the mouse button.

    This procedure converts the smooth signal to a corner point by splitting the direction lines.

  3. Reposition the Pen tool where you want the second curved segment to end, and elevate a new shine betoken to complete the second curved segment.

Photoshop pen tool Drawing two curves

Drawing 2 curves

A. Dragging a new smooth betokenB. Pressing Alt/Option to split direction lines while dragging, and swinging direction line upC. Result after repositioning and dragging a third fourth dimension

Finish drawing a path

  1. Consummate a path in 1 of the following ways:

    • To close a path, position the Pen tool over the starting time (hollow) anchor point. A small circle appears next to the Pen tool pointer when it is positioned correctly. Click or drag to close the path.

    • To leave a path open, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac Os) anywhere abroad from all objects.

Settings in the Options bar

When you employ the standard Pen tool, the post-obit options are available in the options bar:

  • Auto Add together/Delete, which lets you add an anchor point when you click a line segment or delete an anchor point when you click it.
  • Prophylactic Band, which lets you preview path segments as yous motion the pointer between clicks. To access this option, click the popular-up bill of fare to the correct of the Custom Shape icon.

The Freeform Pen tool lets you describe as if you lot were drawing with a pencil on newspaper. Anchor points are added automatically as you draw. You do not determine where the points are positioned, but yous can adjust them one time the path is complete. To draw with greater precision, use the Pen tool.

  1. Select the Freeform Pen tool.

  2. To control how sensitive the terminal path is to the movement of your mouse or stylus, click the inverted arrow next to the shape buttons in the options bar, and enter a value between 0.5 and 10.0 pixels for Curve Fit. A higher value creates a simpler path with fewer anchor points.

  3. Drag the pointer in the epitome. As you drag, a path trails behind the arrow. When you lot release the mouse, a work path is created.

  4. To continue the existing freehand path, position the pen arrow on an cease point of the path, and drag.

  5. To complete the path, release the mouse. To create a closed path, drag the line to the initial betoken of the path (a circle appears next to the pointer when it is aligned).

Draw using the magnetic pen options

The Magnetic Pen is an option of the Freeform Pen tool that lets y'all draw a path that snaps to the edges of defined areas in your epitome. Y'all can define the range and sensitivity of the snapping behavior, as well as the complexity of the resulting path. The Magnetic Pen and Magnetic Lasso tools share many of the aforementioned options.

  1. To convert the Freeform Pen tool to the Magnetic Pen tool , select Magnetic in the options bar, or click the inverted arrow next to the shape buttons in the options bar, select Magnetic, and ready the following:

    • For Width, enter a pixel value between 1 and 256. The Magnetic Pen detects edges only inside the specified altitude from the pointer.

    • For Contrast, enter a percentage value betwixt 1 and 100 to specify the contrast required between pixels for that area to exist considered an edge. Employ a college value for low-contrast images.

    • For Frequency, enter a value between 0 and 100 to specify the rate at which the Pen sets anchor points. A higher value anchors the path in place more quickly.

    • If yous are working with a stylus tablet, select or deselect Pen Pressure. When this option is selected, an increment in pen force per unit area causes the width to decrease.

  2. Click in the image to prepare the first fastening point.

  3. To draw a freehand segment, move the pointer or drag along the edge you want to trace.

    The nigh recent segment of the edge remains agile. Every bit you move the pointer, the active segment snaps to the strongest edge in the epitome, connecting the pointer to the last fastening point. Periodically, the Magnetic Pen adds fastening points to the border to anchor previous sections.

    Photoshop pen tool fastening points, and continue tracing

    Click to add together fastening points, and continue tracing.
  4. If the border doesn't snap to the desired border, click once to add a fastening point manually and to proceed the border from moving. Continue to trace the edge and add fastening points every bit needed. If y'all make a mistake, press Delete to remove the concluding fastening point.

  5. To dynamically modify the properties of the Magnetic Pen, exercise one of the following:

    • Alt-drag (Windows) or Choice-drag (Mac Bone) to draw a freehand path.

    • Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) to depict directly segments.

    • Press the open foursquare subclass cardinal ([) to decrease the Magnetic Pen width by 1 pixel; press the close square bracket key (]) to increase the pen width by 1 pixel.

    • Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) to end an open path.

    • Double-click to close the path with a magnetic segment.

    • Hold downwards Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac Bone), and double-click to close the path with a straight segment.

How To Draw Curved Lines In Photoshop,

Source: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/drawing-pen-tools.html

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