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This tutorial shows you how to use the new Curvature Pen Tool in Photoshop CC to easily draw paths, and how to convert your path outlines into shapes, vector masks and selections. Follow along with this step-by-step guide. It lets us draw complex shapes and paths without the need to edit control handles or remember keyboard shortcuts.

Using the Curvature Pen Tool is as easy as clicking to add points. Photoshop then uses those points to automatically draw your path. As its name implies, the Curvature Pen Tool draws curved lines by default.

But as we’ll see, it’s just as easy to draw straight lines, and to switch between curved and straight lines as needed. And like the standard Pen Tool, we can easily convert our path outlines into selection outlines, allowing anyone, even beginners, to make clean, professional selections in Photoshop. Let’s see how it works! Let’s get started! Download this tutorial as a print-ready PDF!

Rather than me just telling you how the Curvature Pen Tool works, let’s set things up so that you can easily follow along with me. We’ll start by creating a new Photoshop document. Go up to the File menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen and choose New :. This opens the New Document dialog box.

In the Preset Details panel along the right, set both the Width and Height of the new document to Pixels. Then, click the Create button in the bottom right corner. A new document, filled with white, will open on your screen:. Now that we have our document, let’s set up some guides so it will be easier for us to draw the same shapes.

Make sure the Gutter value for both the Columns and Rows is either empty or set to 0. If you have any pre-existing guides that you need to remove, select Clear Existing Guides at the bottom. Then, click OK to close the dialog box:. We select the Curvature Pen Tool from the Toolbar. By default, the Curvature Pen Tool is nested in behind the standard Pen Tool , so you’ll need to click and hold on the Pen Tool’s icon until a fly-out menu appears.

Then, choose the Curvature Pen Tool from the menu:. Don’t see the Curvature Pen Tool in the Toolbar? Here’s where to find it. Before you begin drawing with the Curvature Pen Tool, choose whether you want to draw a path outline or a shape using the Tool Mode option in the Options Bar. By default, the Tool Mode is set to Path , which is what I’m going to leave it set to. If you wanted to draw a shape, you would set the Tool Mode option to Shape.

I find it’s easier just to draw a path because paths are easier to see as you’re drawing, and you can easily convert your path into a shape when you’re done. We’ll learn how to do that a bit later. For now, leave the Tool Mode set to Path:. To begin drawing either a path or a shape, click once inside your document to set a starting point. I’ll click on the spot where the vertical guide in the center and the horizontal guide along the bottom intersect.

Notice that a little square appears at the spot where you clicked. This is known as an anchor point because it anchors the position of the path within the document:. Next, click to add a second anchor point. I’ll click where the vertical guide on the left and the horizontal guide in the center intersect. Notice that even though the tool is named the Curvature Pen Tool, Photoshop draws a straight line , known as a path segment , between the two points.

The reason is that drawing a curve requires three points; one for the start of the curve, one for the end, and one in the middle. The point in the middle determines the angle, or arc, of the curve.

Without that middle point, all Photoshop can draw is a straight line:. Click with the Curvature Pen Tool to add a third point. I’ll click where the top horizontal guide and the center vertical guide intersect.

As soon as you click to add the third point, the straight line becomes a curved line:. If you’re having trouble seeing your path outline, you can adjust both the color and thickness of the path by clicking the gear icon in the Options Bar:.

This opens the Path Options dialog box where you can change the thickness of the path outline from as small as 0. You can also choose a different color for the path.

I’ll set the Thickness to 3 px and the Color to Magenta. Note that these settings are there only to help you see your path as you’re working.

They have no effect on the actual appearance of the path in the document. To close the Path Options dialog box, click again on the gear icon:. To continue drawing your path or shape, simply click to add more points. By default, once you’ve started drawing a curved line by adding a third point, any additional points you add will also draw a curve. I’ll add a fourth anchor point by clicking where the vertical line along the right and the horizontal guide in the center intersect. This adds a new path segment between the third and fourth points and extends the curve:.

To close your path, click again on your original starting point. We’ve now drawn a complete circle with the Curvature Pen Tool just by clicking:.

We’ve drawn our path, but we can easily go back at this point and reshape it. In fact, there’s a few ways to do it. One is by clicking on an existing anchor point with the Curvature Pen Tool to select it, and then dragging the point to a new location.

Here, I’m dragging the top anchor point two vertical guides over to the right:. We can also add more anchor points to the existing path. To add a new point, click anywhere along the path outline. Then, drag the new point to reshape the path. I’ll click in the upper left of the path to add a new point:. Then, to reshape the path, I’ll drag the new point into the upper left corner where the grid lines intersect:.

I’ll also click to add a new anchor point at the very top of the path, and then I’ll drag the new point downward to where the grid lines meet just above the center:. So far, all of the anchor points we’ve added with the Curvature Pen Tool have been curve points also known as smooth points.

That is, the path outline curves as it passes through the point. Another way to change the shape of a path is by converting a curve point into a corner point. To switch from a curve point to a corner point, double-click on an existing curve point.

I’ll double-click on the point I just added in the top center, and now we see that, instead of a smooth curve, the path outline abruptly changes direction at that point.

To switch from a corner point back to a curve point, again just double-click on the point:. Here, I’ve deleted the point in the top center, and now the path has returned to the same shape it was in before adding the point:. The main benefit of the Curvature Pen Tool is that it’s easy to draw curved path outlines.

But we can also use it to draw straight lines just as easily. We’ve already seen that we can convert a curve point into a corner point by double-clicking on it. But if we know in advance that we need to draw a straight line, there’s no need to draw a curve point first and then convert it. Instead, just double-click , rather than single-click, to add the new point. Photoshop will automatically add the point as a corner point.

Let’s say we want to draw a rectangular path outline using the Curvature Pen Tool. Start by clicking to set a starting point for the path.

I’ll click in the lower left corner:. Then, since we know we want the next point to be a corner point, double-click, rather than single-click, to add it. I’ll double-click two horizontal guides above my starting point:. To add the third point to the rectangular shape, I’ll again double-click to add it as a corner point. Notice that because we’re adding the points as corner points, Photoshop is connecting them with straight path segments instead of curves:.

I’ll add a fourth corner point by double-clicking in the lower right corner. Again, Photoshop adds another straight path segment:. To complete the path, I’ll double-click on the initial starting point, and Photoshop adds the remaining straight segment:. What if, instead of a flat horizontal line at the top of the path, you want an arch? With the Curvature Pen Tool, it’s easy. All you need to do is click anywhere along the top path segment to add a new anchor point:. So far, we’ve learned that we can move an individual anchor point by clicking and dragging it with the Curvature Pen Tool.

But what if we need to move two or more anchor points at once? In that case, we can use Photoshop’s Direct Selection Tool. Click and hold on the Path Selection Tool until a fly-out menu appears, and then choose the Direct Selection Tool from the menu:.

 
 

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The January and October releases of Photoshop CC (versions x) roll out exciting new features for designers. Upgraded to Photoshop CC but your Curvature Pen Tool is missing from the Toolbar? This tutorial shows you where to find it and how to bring it back. The Freeform Pen tool lets you draw paths as if you were drawing with pencil on a piece of paper. The Magnetic Pen options let you draw a path.

 
 

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