Adobe Photoshop for Beginners
Course 3: Cut It Out: A Very Basic Overview of the Pen Tool
By Harrison Kuykendall , Digital Artist
Joined February 2020
Joined February 2020
About the video: A Very Basic Overview of the Pen Tool
Overview
“In this unit, we will get a basic understanding of how the "Pen" tool works. Of all the selection tools available, the "Pen" tool allows us to create the most accurate masks because we are creating them ourselves, rather than allowing a computer to choose the paths for us. ”
In this video lesson Harrison Kuykendall addresses the topic: A Very Basic Overview of the Pen Tool, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 3: Cut It Out. Learn to master the art of masking.
Partial transcription of the video
“PHOTOSHOP / COURSE 3 LESSON 4 Pen tool very basic overview In this unit, we'll be covering the Pen tool. Of all the selection methods available, the Pen tool is going to give you the most accurate masks possible. This is because using the Pen tool, you're drawing the masks yourself rather than a computer algorithm choosing the masks for you. The Pen tool can be intimidating at first, but I'll walk you through each step of the process. Let's get started. This is more of an advanced selection tool, but I think it's very important to have a basic knowledge of how to use it. Basically, the Pen ...”
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Course summary for: Course 3: Cut It Out
Harrison Kuykendall
By Harrison Kuykendall
Harrison Kuykendall is a digital artist living in New York City who specializes in creative retouching and design using Adobe Photoshop. He is the owner and founder of HE–Studios, a Brooklyn based post-production studio whose client list includes Target, Stella Artois, Lady Gaga’s Haus Labs, Aveeno, Champion, and Diane von Furstenberg.
Harrison and his studio are focused on retouching stills and creating animations for large scale global advertising campaigns that can be seen on billboards and screens around the world. When he’s not experimenting in Photoshop or the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite, you can find him relaxing with his three cats or creating music for his synthpop band BHuman.
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