Photoshop: The Pen Tool - In Depth (HD)

[sackclone13]

thank~u so much:')

[DedaiM]

Real nice man...detailed to the point

[DedaiM]

Real nice man...detailed to the point

[DedaiM]

Real nice man...detailed to the point again very well done...

[xSagexStatusx]

the only thing i dislike is how he pronounces his P's like a beatboxer

[nicekaba]

Awsome Tutorial dude! :)

[AngelEchoes86]

Great tutorial, thanks.

[warrlit2011]

howard, you're an inspiration.

[amr5alifabasha]

36 use paint

[SHOOTdangerly]

watch?v=G-JQs3WOwHM

[TheNogimus]

without paint photoshop would never be made i guess

[nayhem]

@NMBM1904

- use the 'Simulate Pressure' option, seen at 8:06

- use the path to describe the 'outline', and Fill instead of Stroke

- use a different program, such as Illustrator, Inkscape, or Expression Design

[rock2hawk]

hi please when i stoke path just dots come on nodes Help please

[wmchen]

Very informative tut, thamk u.

[NMBM1904]

How can you Make the path thin at the beggining , thicker in the middle and thin in the end ? Mine has always the same thickness

[ysorandom26]

This is so FRICKING HARD

[palladino0215]

what version of photoshop is this??



[lovemenot38]

SANKYUU ^^

[BlueUmbrellaGirl]

thx

[FaaduProductions]

Thumbs up if your internet speed is above 512 kb/s

[ShikogoFox]

@FaaduProductions 4MB/s :3

[xTriggerHappi]

Greatest tutorial evar. You've helped me a lot, especially with all of the shortcuts, thanks!

[cbr0oks]

its soo much better listening to your newer videos compared to your old ones, these are much more professional sounding. great stuff!!!

[MAHA673TFM]

how did u remove the path points @ 1:24 ??

[2noobmusic]

@MAHA673TFM ctrl+z/command+z

[IdeaTherapy]

@MAHA673TFM ctrl + z or ctrl + alt + z

[likeajavelin]

I feel like a new world just opened up to me! thanks a ton

[avseq44]

Great tutorial again!

[masterp611s]

Great tutorial.

[nonontech]

Best Tutorial for Pen Tool... Thanks a lot...

[iLegendisH]

shapeslayer .. ;d

[Whitellama11]

Thanks bro, that helped.

[EmoMFr]

@IceflowStudios

I suck at PS, so can you tell me this:

How do I use shapes (like the one you made in the video)?

[janyhel22]

Great tutorial! Keep up the good work! =)

[thebroadcastviewer]

How to resize the stoked path? will it be vector?

[AntiMasterElite]

Aswesome!!! I had problems with this pentool but now everything is clear, FAVOURITE video:P!

[deathstalker2000]

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!! :)

[mightyburee]

good stuff. tnx

[barbarianatgate]

Absolutely the best pen tutorial I've found on the net! You deal very clearly with the most common and frustrating issues users unfamiliar with the pen tool will encounter! Great narration, quality video and detailed explanation make this a must see!

[kmacc390]

Thanks you for this very clear tutorial.

[71cKwl]

You totally saved me. Thanks again for this.

[killabigk]

that was helpful. Thank You

[pinksheep07]

This really helped me!

[LuisFilmProduction]

fav tut

[jrsjrsjrs1]

Great job, thank you!

[undergrounddlz]

Great tutorial. Best pen tut iv came across..

[yasir83ish]

nice tut!

[MyGamerTV]

Great tutorial buddy... Subscribed :D

[Sibela70]

This video helped me a lot. Thank you.

[MrDIGITALDREAMER1]

You are genius..

[MrUnknown47]

Thanks, another great tutorial!

[freehal]

you go to damned fast...

[danielaamodio]

OMG I Love you! It's the best tutorial for Pen Tool I've ever seen :) Thanks!!!

[jazziepurple]

ooh man i dont think i have the pen tool . i have photoshop elements. i looked evrywhere and i dont see it!! help please!!!

[donsina]

very nice tutorial...

[MrBoogiboo]

I was a dumbfuck using pen tool. But thank you, seriously I love you. NO HOMO

[sgtjoe2008]

very good explanation....now i'll practice using the pen tool

[schnitzer12]

thanks

[verifor]

omg thank you so much for this video. I remember giving up on trying to learn this tool so long ago. I think you just added 30 more years to my life, from the time saved of manually drawing paths and shapes.

[SimsManic333]

GAAHH! IDONT HAVE ITTTTT!!!!!!!! I have adobe photoshop elements and im almost sure its not there! wat eles can i use? ps, I wanna no how 2 make the water droplets in elemets

[digiworld1989]

i say if you need to create vector images just use adobe illustrator.

[BayBeeBoyProductions]

where is the pen tool in photoshop elements 9

[xPrussianPrince]

30 users were Paint users.

[kidsrule10]

@xPrussianPrince No 30 users didn't like this video get it through your head.....

[TechnoHacker100]

@xPrussianPrince 36

[SoniStreet]

@xPrussianPrince 37 paint users were fail loosers.

[redneck84305]

hey you do great job of teaching.

[cadkins86]

nice job man very very helpful

[1001ksa1001]

Thanks very useful

[Mrfitrider1]

so what exactly is the pentool supposed to do?

o_O

You never explained that part

lol

does it just create a shape or outlines a subject?

[Hiroth86]

This helped me so much. Everything is so clear when he explains it to me :D great tutorial

[swirlylolly999]

thank you so much! you rock!

[kadotomynash4]

when I right click on my path i cant fill, stoke, or clip the path, am i doing something wrong? im using cs3

[malshania]

iceflowStudios tuts rocks!!!

[hitman7112]

Great work, nice and easy :)

[theHyrullian]

awesome!

[MentoZen]

Very off topic.

Im getting sick of people complaining about ads. You get a freaking free service where you can upload your videos and share with the world. And you can browse video like this and be entertained, or like I did here, learn something new.

You get all this for free, yea you even get free music from artists thru Vevo.

And all this you pay 0 money for, so would a 30 sec add now and then(rarely even) hurt you that bad?

[Bolond05]

Oh... A really good video, im not the best in english, but I understood every word of you! Thx, its helpfull

[BlueChaos100]

Stupid ads at the beginning, YT is such a corporate whore now.

Thanks for the tut! :D

[blahtoausername]

@BlueChaos100 FireFox with AdBlock Plus + NoScript.... What ads? :D

[BlueChaos100]

@blahtoausername Oh cool, thanks for the tip! But how do I go about blocking the little popup ads that are at the bottom of the video? Thanks.

[blahtoausername]

@BlueChaos100 I don't see those either. No Script solves that issue too.

[BlueChaos100]

@blahtoausername Oh ok, thanks.

[Toonscribble]

damn adds



[pdarivemula]

awesome video.. Thanks mate

[alerockafilms]

thank you!!!

[Zeeporah]

awesome video! thanks! very clear and helpful!

[shrugbutt]

One word - Fabulouse !

[MrNerfboi]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I NEVER KNEW U NEEDED TO CHOOSE PATH

[ryandavid113]

@3:10 made my headache go away. Shoulda guessed I needed to hold down something and click... with no other way or instruction.

[littlelala2354]

I assume you're using a tablet. If so, what kind do you use??

[TechWizard4U]

great tutorials, where did you learn all of this.

[ProduceJuice]

Great tutorial!

[quantumpolice]

@ProduceJuice I've just discovered this tutorial on youtube. I'm sure it's good but as I watch I try to do similar stuff to teacher and it's not filling in with the black section like he shows it. Why? I fear teacher is assuming everyone just understands the little point & clicks he's doing w/o real explanations. Anyone understand how/why that black section fills in as he clicks away?

[ProduceJuice]

@quantumpolice That is because you have the "paths tool" selected at the top left of your photoshop, you have to click on "shape layers"! Please check out my tutorials! Remember you can only access these settings by having the pen tool selected!

[quantumpolice]

@ProduceJuice Hmmm. I see. I'll have to play around with that. Right now I'm having a hard time keeping up with the teacher explanation of making sharp corners. I'm having very minor successes, however I feel I'm on the verge of a major success in understanding photoshop. I've been squibbling aorund photoshop for 6 years now never once using the pen tool. It's just been sitting there. I have a feeling if I ever learn it will become a very useful tool in my design creations, right?

[ProduceJuice]

@quantumpolice Yes I do think you will go far if you begin to learn and understand in depth of photoshop. Would you like me to create a in depth tutorial of the pen tool?

[quantumpolice]

@ProduceJuice That would be awesome. My main issue is to be able to go in and recreate crappy art that people give me. I print t-shirts. Many people give me art work that is very old- jpeg images or pictures of old worn out designs. It really takes a long time to go in the jpegs and redesign stuff with curves & junk. Takes so long and then the curves always show unclean cuts that don't look smooth. I believe the pen tool might be the solution to all of that & I can also do other cool rounded art

[MsAngeljb]

THANKS FOR A WONDERFUL IDEA....

UR SO GREAT !!! LOVE U

[useurcamera]

someone answer, is the pen tool very important for logo making?

[thumbkiller]

@useurcamera well if your making designs then probably yes

[halogs999]

Fantastic! this was giving me a real problem and i could only half use the pen tool. I couldn't get curves right, because i didn't understand it. Anyway, thanks for the great tutorial!

[Djeyblack]

at last something usefull about the pen tools lol thz man

[AmoreJess]

This helped so much, thank you!!

[bia4ever3]

i love you seriously, your the fucking greatest man,thank you!

[crackajackbette]

Great tutorial! Thanks!

[ANGRYWOLF28]

Это для чайников!

[jehuti1]

WIN

[Asaadaaaa]

Can you make a video on the brush setings ? like shape dynamics and all of that ?

[itsMeCodyD]

this really helped! :D

[doobiiz]

thanks for the upload - it taught me alot

[jabalkatatata]

Thank You :)

[trylawrence]

Thanks Dude, You are really GREAT.

[seafome1]

Does adobe photoshop elements have the pen tool? or is it just the cs4/5 ect

[afromanz4]

EXCELLENT TUTORIAL 

[Chewo0]

great tutorial man ;)

[MagicalMeltdown]

You rock,.....

[paddydequiff1]

EXCELLENT, THANK YOU

[Naffets92]

REally Thanks!

[88OHA]

great tutorial!

[nhelflip]

..wow..thanks...now i have an idea how to use it....your clip was good... not like the other was fast forward mode..diff. to understood it clearly...by the way do you have website or any other site to see more of your stuff on photoshop?

[FromOuttaNowhere]

where do you get all of your images to use? Is there a stock images program?

[LazrTears]

YES.

YES.

YES.

5*

[poepzakraket]

Hm.. it doesn't work for me that Simulate Pressure..

The line stays the same size... whole the time..

[Flophole]

@poepzakraket Go into your brush settings and set the width of the brush to change depending on pen pressure. You can also do other things like set the opacity to change under different pressures. I'm not sure if it lets you do these things without a pen installed, though.

[vinceurag]

GREAT DUDE! awesome.! thanks by the way

[useurcamera]

hey guys help me, i wanted to post this but it was getting an error

please help me my lasso isnt doing free selctions.. :(

PLEASE PLEASE I BEG YOU

it doesnt make selections i want! it gettings curvy! :(

[11danus]

@useurcamera

Right click that fucka and select the normal lasso

[k4lash]

Excellent tutorial, just what I needed. You helped me yet AGAIN, thanks a lot!

[giselemassie]

This is the best I ever seen,

Merci beaucoup! And keep up the good work, Gisele

[IanRmcmillan]

This was one of the most useful lessons i have used. saved me hours of editing time.

[Jackifried]

hey thanx alot for this video, i was having a problem with this tool (the same one at 3:05 ) lol

[biggaletta]

GREAT!!!!!!

[Lachyification]

Great Tutorial, but your voice is a bit overwhelming! =)

[IKingofSpades]

I love all yer tutorials.. I'd recommend them to all adobe newbies like myself..

Thanks for uploading. You did a five star job . :)

[Exorkistiz]

Great 5/5

[steveshort4steven]

thank you thank you thank you! 5 stars

[klick4x]

The Best Professional !

[marckolius]

I love making black oranges. Thats my thing, thats what I do! he he

[serviceapron]

Great tutorial thanks so  much!!!!

[Speedblowers]

Great tutorial, learned alot about pen tool now :)

Now i can make some fancy glow!

[jaihindhreddy]

no man, my father scolds me if i download it freely bcoz its not legal. He saw me trying to download it and asked me whether i wanted it, then i asked for it and he bought it. I am from India.

[MarcusWindrune]

lol

[AdamBlack88]

Great tutorial! Needed a refresher to help re-acquaint myself with dreaded 'pen tool' and this was clear, well-explained and straight to the point. Its been saved to my favourites, thank you.

[MerryXbox]

What the hell is the pen tool for? lol. No offence but who wants to make black oranges? xd Please respond^^

[Frankfurtxxl]

glow effect, etc.

very cool tool

[AdamBlack88]

@MerryXbox

Anyone who knows anything about Photoshop knows that the pen tool is one of the most useful tools to have, especially for graphic and web design. It's used to create complex shapes and the rest like curves or really weirdly-shaped polygons, it's not just used for making "black oranges". He was illustrating how to use it make and refine curves. The oranges were an example so you might have missed the point of the video a bit.

[MerryXbox]

Lol in that case i missed the whole point ;) I'll watch a tutorial of this so i might see what its good for.

[Cipprik]

Thank you very much ...I have searched this tutorial all night long ...you are the best of photoshop ;)

[jaihindhreddy]

Yeah man!This tutorial was excellent. 5 stars. I am just a small boy and new to photoshop.Ive bought cs4 and thanks very much...

[xXFallenKinghtXx]

liar u download it free from internet like everyone =) lol

[rmrmrm09]

Hey, I'm a big fan of your tutorials, you are a good teacher. Just I have a question, a problem, on my computer when i click simulate pressure it won't fade. Can you help me. please, I even checked brush dynamics, but something is wrong. Thanks

[biomassskater]

what do you use the pen feature for ?

[YellerBrace]

does adobe photoshop 8 not come with a pen tool???? ive been trying to figure this out for awile noww

[kylebuhtuh]

Great tutorial, but might I suggest getting a pop filter for your microphone.

[nhaaubaidi]

Great tutorial ^^

Thanks

[mmmajkp]

A fantastic tutorial. Thank you. My pressure

was off in making a stroke. I could not figure out

why. Now I know I had checked this option. I

can't say enough about this video. Give us more!

[tirana026]

great tutorial thank you XD

[barak112]

Great tut man.....

[polopeter111]

This is one of the last guides where I learn a thing in Photoshop.

Thank you very much

[errisi1]

yep pen tool is the mos difficul but if u learn it the cut of the pen tool is the best

[TheAwesomeOne1ooo]

This is such a helful tutorial- thanks so much! :D

[JorgeLedesma]

Thank you very much for the tutorial, as weird as it may seem I've been using photoshop (not in a pro manner) for about 10 years, but I've never gotten around to using or understanding the pen tool, but this tutorial really cleared a lot of questions i had about its use. Thank you very much and keep the tuts coming.

[Gfok3]

great tutorial. I watched a couple but none explained the shape part.

thanks

[BCZZZZ]

NICE!

[jalzalaa]

cooooooooooooooooool

[C0DZ0R]

Thank you so much

[fermixx]

i always mess up with alts, shifts, controls, and all possible combinations..

fortunately theres undo, because i always end up doing the same thing twice or three times untill i find the right shorcut

nice tutorial

[uppolespaul]

My pen tool is set to paths but just keeps adding lines and wont let me make curves?! i dont know how to fix it! Anyone? Help Howard! :)

P.S Love your vids :D

[dillonownsrs]

hold down ur cursor when you put down a new "checkpoint" or something, don't know what to call it

[nuggyman123]

tis called an "anchor" just here to help =]

[fermixx]

before releasing the mouse (after you clicked and added a dot) you'll see the line. if you then move your mouse arround, you'll create the vector that will make that straight line a curve

[poppinmoses1979]

lol, WOW! I had no idea it did so much, thank you man!

[aveenjava]

THANK YOO SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hajdareviic]

I've been struggling with that tool for years! Always used marquee tool instead but you made it understandable in 9 min! Thank you!

[Ankyjuk]

Thank you. I had some problems and you just shown how to solve them. Thanks again.

[ShakurNO]

AWESOME!