ok well i was looking about the toolbar in photoshop and started playing with the pen tool.
Now my challenge to you is to create a 1280x800 wallpaper using paths. This is what you get when you draw with the pen tool.
If you dont know how to use the pen tool then look at the tutorial i wrote:
1. Open up a new file (File > New). Make it 500 by 500 pixels. The resolution should be 72, Color Mode should be RGB, and Background Contents should be white.
2. Click on the Freeform Pen Tool. It looks like the image to the right. If it's not showing, right click on that square and choose it from the list.
Along the top, just under the main menu, ensure that the "Paths" button is selected. This will allow you to make a path without creating a shape (shapes are automatically filled in, we don't want that).
3. Click and draw on your canvas like you would with your brush tool if you were painting something. You're doing much the same thing, but instead of actually painting anything, you're creating a path.
Think of a path as a blueprint for where your paint WILL go. You're creating a shape or line or whatever you like... but you get a chance to shape it before you actually put any paint down.
This squiggle to the right is what I drew. You can see the line, as well as all of the points along the line where it curves.
4. Click on the Direct Selection Tool, which is right above the Freeform Pen Tool. (Again, if it's not showing, right click on that box and choose it from the list.)
5. Zoom in close to a part of the path where there is a point. Using the Direct Selection tool, click on that point. You'll see two lines coming out either side of it, much like you see here.
Those two lines represent the curvature of the path around that point. If I were to move the right line up a few pixels....
6. ... notice what happens to the curve. It curves upward, but just on that side of the point.
I did that with the Direct Selection Tool. Just grab that point on the end of the line and drag. You can also click on the path itself and drag it, but I find it much easier to manipulate using the two lines.
Play around with yours now. Using your Direct Selection Tool, grab the tip of one of those lines and move it around, watching what happens to the path. See how it changes the curvature?
Okay now you know how to use it i challenge you to cum up with the best design you can
The more post you make the more chances you have of winning.
If you win i will make you a unique sig/wallpaper of whatever you want
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