Photoshop Tutorials - Pen Tooling

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This was the first tutorial I ever did!

I created it originally for another site, so sorry for any irregular references.

Hey guys, this is a tutorial for pen tooling, present on my current signature. I hope you enjoy this and would love to see some results :) Pen tooling is a great tool in any graphic artist's arsenal.

This should be done on a new layer, for every line you do ;)

Generally you should use relevant colours to the piece, if you can add a white or black with it. I will use blue just so you can see clearly what I’m doing.

Step 1 for Photoshop Tutorials

Set your brush tool to a hard brush, 3-12 pixels depending on the thickness of the line you are aiming for. Image cannot be shown in this article.

Step 2 for Photoshop Tutorials

Make sure you're using the 'paths' version of the pen tool. (Top left corner)

Select the pen tool and click twice, forming a ‘straight line’, as shown.

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Step 3 for Photoshop Tutorials

Click and hold the line anywhere you like, you’ll see you can now bend the line around. Do this until you have something you like ;) (not on the same click and hold)