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Pen Tool Tutorial
Published: 2010-04-07 22:50:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 188264; Favourites: 9443; Downloads: 6368
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Pen Tool Video TutorialHair Coloring Tutorial
If you have any questions, leave a comment and I'll do my best to answer! :3 (And if you use my tutorial, I would be very happy if you could send me a link to your work so I can praise you!) XD
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Adobe Photoshop CS III
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yup... finally Ive got to the right path...
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thanks a lot for this tutorial
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I like the step by step explaination... now to say hello to my old nemesis... Pen tool...
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You can do it! Make the Pen Tool your friend!
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But we had a falling out!
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After so long of using Photoshop, the pen tool was my enemy. I've only been using my PS CS5 for a year now, and I've pretty much just had to tinker with tools and it has such a steep learning curve...
But this was so easily explained that just a few moments ago, I made a line for a bed that was in a piece I'm working on! I nearly jumped out of my socks it was so easy! All this time the pen tool scared me and all I needed was to be told HOW to use it. This is so easy to follow as a tutorial, I'll be playing around more with this later. Thank you x100, this will really help make my art have a crisper look!
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Awww! I'm so happy I could help you out! Good luck, and feel free to ask questions if you have any! 
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O: Thank you so much! This helped a lot! I'm pretty new to the pen thing and thanks to this I think I understand it a lot more!
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I'm glad I could help you out!
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Ughh, I wanna get to use the paint tool but none of my sketches are even close to as beautiful as most I see in these tuts xD
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The pictures at the bottom are completed linearts, not sketches! You can start with utter crap and still manage to make something cool with the pen tool! XD
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Hehe, yeah I knew they were linearts but if you could make the sketches in my gallery something cool I would be REALLY impressed xD
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Just keep practicing! >w<
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Yay! thanks so much for this helpful tutorial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You're welcome! Thanks for looking! >w<
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also, I love your icon. it's so cute!
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Thanks! I feel like it's time to make a new one, but I still like this one so much! XD
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thanx! i have never inderstood how to use the pen tool! now i can use it!
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Glad to help!
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Hi, Is it okay if i ask you for help?
I read this tutorial and tried it but my photoshop(CS4) won't let me change the brush pressure.
Nothing changes when i click the pen pressure option, and next to the option it has a warning symbol which said "Control by pen pressure requires a pen sensitive pressure tablet.
Do i need a tablet to do this or is there another way to do it?
Thank you for your help!
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You need a tablet in order to alter the pen pressure settings. :3
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awww, ok, then i need to go get a tablet don't i? Is there a lineart tool in "SAI" that is similar to photoshop, that i can use without a tablet?
Thank you for your help^__^
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I personally don't use SAI, but I know it has a pen tool. However, to my knowledge, no program is able to simulate pressure sensitivity without a pressure sensitive input device, if that makes sense. :3
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ah i see. Thank you very much for your advice ^__^
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I'm...just gonna help...here...
Yeah, you can't use pen pressure if you don't have a tablet with pen sensitivity. That's why there's the 'simulate pressure' option, which helps your lines appear...really the same as if you would use a tablet.
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Okay, i'll try it out.
Thank you very much for your help!
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The mysterious gradually becoming known! An eye opener!!
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The mysterious gradually becoming known!
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You're welcome! Thanks for looking!
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Hey, so I really do love this tutorial and it's helped me a lot already, except for the fact that when I right-click, the "Stroke Path" option is shown in grey and I can't click it. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? xD I'd really appreciate any help you can offer <3
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I'll do my best to help! 
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Yes, my settings were identical and the later wasn't lock. I closed and opened PS again and now it works? xD I'm not sure how that happened. Thank you so much anyways, you're really kind helping people out like this.
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I'm glad you were able to (somehow) fix the problem! If you have any other questions, I'll do my best to help you! I hate it when tutorial makers don't make themselves available for help, so I try to answer any questions that come my way. >w<
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Thank you, and definitely! Sometimes the tutorial doesn't explain what could go wrong Dx
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Alright so I figured out how to turn on the Stroke Path option but when I do, the line doesn't show up! D: Is there something else I have to play around with to get it to work?
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I find it very hard to draw with the pn tool , but I am sure going to do it after watching your tutorial. .
Thank you very much <33
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You're welcome! Thanks for looking! >w<
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Awesome tutorial, but what are the settings on your brush when you made those last 2 pics
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I still used the default brush for the last two examples. :3 For the first image, I used the default brush with the minimum diameter set somewhere around 60%. For the very last image, I got the super tapered, weighty effect on the line by chipping away at them with an eraser when I was done. :3
If you meant to ask why the pen tool paths are colored pink and blue respectively, that's just some editing I did to the screenshot so that the tutorial would be easier to understand and view. To my knowledge, you can't actually achieve that in PS. XD
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Great! I have a Pen Tool in my Painter but I could never get it right (I want to make CLEANER line arts rather than just tracing over my scanned work with a "Pen Brush"). congrats on the DD, and I'll try to give this a go.
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Thanks for looking, and good luck!
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