Welles

You're welcome, Evil Nemesis. I hope that helps you a bit in comprehending the pen tool and vector images in Photoshop. Once you understand those, your capacities expand exponentially.

Cheers!

Evil Nemesis

I will wait for more Tutorials on Pen Tool Like this one, from You.

Welles

Only one per customer!

Seriously, though, if you wish to learn the pen tool I have several suggestions where to start.

1. This page contains all the practice templates for drawing with the pen. They are in PDF format and you can open them in Photoshop which rasterizes the image. You will find that the drawings and text are on a transparent background so once you open the PDFs in Photoshop, add a white layer underneath. This series will take you through progressively more complex steps, from making a zig-zag (click move click move click move click) on up. The individual PDFs are small files so you won't have any difficulty downloading them.

http://www.sketchpad.net/drawing8.htm

2. Jay Arraich has a lot of good introductory information on using the Pen Tool here and links his basic beginner's tutorial for the pen tool a short way down the page.

http://www.arraich.com/ref/aatool_pen6.htm

3. For several links which expand on various uses of the Pen Tool, Shapes, and other vector elements of Photoshop, this page is very good.
Photoshop Shape Tool, Pen Tool, Drawing Vector Paths & Shapes

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pho...en/index_r.htm

4. If your curious, I've done two other little pen tool tutorials on PSG to help people in specific circumstances.

http://photoshopgurus.com/forum/view...troke+pen+tool

http://photoshopgurus.com/forum/view...troke+pen+tool

Good Luck! Happy drawing.

Evil Nemesis

Thanx for those cool links you da man [righton]

melissa

This tutorial helped me too!! This is a good one! Thanks!

atlantis

this tutorial was so good
thanks for welles [righton]

Welles

Hi atlantis! It's great when some attempt to help actually works!

Welcome to the forums!

atlantis

dear welles i am looking forward for you new tutorials as a newbie photshop user. especially about layers
keep watching u
:}

Welles

Hi ho atlantis,

There are already some excellent tutes done abuout layers. If you have a specific question, that's when we try and provide an answer.

In the meantime, here is a URL which starts a multipage series of lessons on most of the aspects of layers.

http://www.bairarteditions.com/pages...op/layers.html

Here's a basic one about combining photographs using layer masks...

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/20872.html

And for general beginning lessons, check out the list of tutorials in PDF format which theKeeper has created...

http://www.photoshopgurus.com/tutorials_beginner.html

hydrospell

Maybe this can help beginners too It's an extract from an ebook I've written for beginners. 8))