Drawing lines,curves in photoshop

Drawing Straight Lines
Here’s how to draw straight lines:
1. Select the Pen tool. Click in the window to set an anchor point. It is called an anchor point because it will anchor one end of a line. Release the mouse button. Click again a distance away to create a second anchor point; a line will be drawn between the two. Notice that a new anchor point is darkened as it is created,
indicating that it is selected. At the same time, the previous anchor point lightens, meaning that it is deselected Release the mouse button and click to create a third anchor point and second line.

2. Release the mouse button and move the pen on top of the first anchor point. A small loop appears to the side of the Pen tool icon, letting you know that clicking will close the path.
Click on the first anchor point to close the triangle. Photoshop will create this new shape in its own shape layer,called Shape 1 by default. Each new object you create with the Pen tool will be created in its own layer, too.



Drawing Curves
Here’s how to draw curves:
1. Click the pen once in the window to create an anchor point in a new shape layer, and holding down the mouse button, drag at an angle to form the first part of a curve. As soon as you begin dragging, the pen will turn into an arrow. The lines that emerge as you drag are called direction lines. The slope of the
curve is the same as the slope of its direction lines, and the height of the direction lines determine the height of the curve. There are two dark dots at the end of each direction line. These are direction points.

2. Release the mouse button to finish drawing the first part of the curve.



3. Position the pen a short distance from the first point. Click, keeping the mouse button held down. A slightly curved line will form between the two anchor points.

4. Still keeping the mouse button down, drag in the direction away from the first anchor point. This
action will shape the curve connecting the two anchor points, making it more exaggerated


5. Release the mouse button and click again, in line with the first two anchor points, and drag in the
direction away from the second anchor point. Another curve is formed. You can continue in this
way, building a gently curved line..