Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers, 2014 Release, 2nd Edition

Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers

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Pen path modes

The pen tool has three modes, of which there are only two you will really be interested in using. If the pen tool is in ‘Shape layers’ mode (Figure 8.75), when you draw with the pen tool this creates a vector mask path outline that masks a solid fill layer filled with the current foreground color. If you select the

Path mode option this allows you to create a regular pen path without ...