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Pen Tool and Paths

Hi, everyone. This is Ydel, writing again for your interest on Photoshop. I will be talking about selections in detail in the next blogs but for now let me just say that there is another way of creating selections and that is with the Pen tool. Aside for the ability to create selections, Pen tool is a fantastic tool that lets you create Paths. What are paths, you may be asking? Let me put it this way to get you started - Paths are great if you work with large files, they can be stored within the file and converted to selection at any time. That’s what you are going to learn in this blog - you will create a path with the Pen tool and then you will convert it into a selection. Maybe you will even save the path so that you could reuse it in the future. The clipping path is one of the most used method which is done by pen tool. Pen tool has three modes: 1. Shape mode; 2. Path mode; 3. Pixels mode. Don’t worry about the last one, you will only be using the first one or th
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