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Feb 2, 2008
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I’ve been working on 3 things lately with PS CS3.

1 Learning more about the pen tool. very interesting and hard. I’ve seen the helps and PS video.. Need more info… So far it’s registered as a ‘connect the dots’ tool. Ran across a unique image, many layers, each layer with it’s own personality.
layer 1 background white. layer 2 clouds difference, layer 3 various size star brushes at random positions, layer 4 gradient banner, layer 5 text on banner, layer 6 pen tool creating a bevel embossed gradient ribbon. The ‘connect the dots’ for the ribbon, isn’t working out as I’d want it, and drawing free hand doesn’t cut it either.

2 wanting to wrap images around cylinders. 1st thing is to make GOOD cylinders. Specifically coke cans.. Used the rounded rectangle tool. Guess that’s about as close as I can get to a cylinder. Looking to make a can tilting forward, showing the pop top tab.

3 using the vanishing point filter. Lots of fun with this one. Drew a cylinder. and tried using vanishing point to wrap an image on it’s plane. Not the best use..


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Tacit
Feb 2, 2008
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1 Learning more about the pen tool. very interesting and hard. I’ve seen the helps and PS video.. Need more info… So far it’s registered as a ‘connect the
dots’ tool.

It is, but the connections can be curved as well as straight.

One key to using the Pen tool successfully is to have your right hand on the mouse and your left hand on the bottom left corner of the keyboard, because the Pen tool does different things when you hold down the Control key, the Alt key, the Shift key, and different things when you hold down combinations of those keys.

There are three kinds of Pen points. If you just click the mouse, you get a connector point. It is used to draw straight segments between points.

If you click, hold down the mouse button, and drag, you get a Smooth point. This is used to connect curved parts of a path. A perfect circle can be made with only four smooth points.

If you click, hold down the mouse button, and drag, then hold down the ALT key (PC) or OPTION key (Mac), the cursor changes to a caret. If you click the caret on one of the handles and drag the mouse, you will break the handles apart so that they can be adjusted independently. This is how you create a Corner point–a place where two curved lines meet at a corner.


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keepout
Feb 3, 2008
On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:39:18 -0500, tacit wrote:

1 Learning more about the pen tool. very interesting and hard. I’ve seen the helps and PS video.. Need more info… So far it’s registered as a ‘connect the dots’ tool.

It is, but the connections can be curved as well as straight.
Yeah but learning how to use the other things connected to the pen are the hard part. IE: I want a curve to go down. I can’t repeat the process twice in the same image.

1 time the curves go left, right, up, down, look like a wiener dog balloon, cross back on itself, fill in curves I didn’t mean to make.. etc…

And that vanishing point is terrible. no way to delete mistakes, or back up to before the mistake. Only way I’ve found is to cancel, exit and restart. Planes disappearing, angle not there when you need it. etc..


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Tacit
Feb 3, 2008
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And that vanishing point is terrible. no way to delete mistakes, or back up to before the mistake. Only way I’ve found is to cancel, exit and restart. Planes disappearing, angle not there when you need it. etc..

You can remove the last point on a curve by hitting Undo.

You can move, or remove, any point on a curve by holding down CONTROL (PC) or COMMAND (Mac), clicking the point, and then either dragging to move it or pressing Delete ont he keyboard to delete it. This breaks the path.

You can remove a point without breaking the path by using the Remove Point tool (the one that looks like a pen with a minus sign next to it) from the Pen tool flyout.


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Sundance Kid
Feb 5, 2008
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I’ve been working on 3 things lately with PS CS3.

1 Learning more about the pen tool. very interesting and hard. I’ve seen the helps and PS video.. Need more info…

There’s a very good Quicktime video tutorial
by Eddie Tapp at this site:
http://www.photoworkshop.com/adobe/software_cinema

It’s an Adobe Flash based menu, so you need to have that installed. Because it’s Flash based, I can’t give you a direct link, so…

To see the video, you need to do the following:
1. Go to the above web page
2. Click on the yellow "Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2, and CS3" link
3. Click on the "Jack Davis" link
(the menu’s messed up – it will take you to the Eddie Tapp tutorials)
4. In the right column, click on the Pro Techniques II – Pen Tool link.
5. It will open in a pop-up window

The site’s worth bookmarking –
there are some good sample tutorials there.

Also, on Google books, there’s an Eddie Tapp book.
Here’s a link to the Pen Tool chapter:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3bucpq


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keepout
Feb 5, 2008
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:21:14 +0000 (UTC), Sundance Kid wrote:

wrote:

I’ve been working on 3 things lately with PS CS3.

1 Learning more about the pen tool. very interesting and hard. I’ve seen the helps and PS video.. Need more info…

There’s a very good Quicktime video tutorial
by Eddie Tapp at this site:
http://www.photoworkshop.com/adobe/software_cinema

It’s an Adobe Flash based menu, so you need to have that installed. Because it’s Flash based, I can’t give you a direct link, so…
To see the video, you need to do the following:
1. Go to the above web page
2. Click on the yellow "Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2, and CS3" link
3. Click on the "Jack Davis" link
(the menu’s messed up – it will take you to the Eddie Tapp tutorials)
Suppose no one knows these tutorials exist what with the messed up menu. It does confirm what I figured out on my own. It’s a ‘connect the dots’ tool. Then the MOV goes on to grabbing a camera, and I’m sitting her thinking Why aren’t you using the magic lasso ?
He’s stopping every 50 pixels to add a dot. Where the lasso works just fine ‘on the run’

And this is a bit better than the adobe tut.

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