CHAPTER 5
THE PEN TOOL AND VECTOR MASKS
No book about selections would be complete without a section on the Pen Tool. I remember when I first gave it a try and consequently got completely lost and made a right mess of things. Bezier curves? What on earth? Why is it doing this? Why is it doing that? The Pen Tool had me completely foxed, so in truth, I avoided using it for quite some time.
However, it was inevitable that if I wanted to get really good at making selections, then I had to make friends with it, so that’s what I did, and you know what? The Pen Tool is the BEST tool there is, bar none, when it comes to making selections around objects that have a defined outline. So, it’s not good for making selections of hair, fur, grass, or the like, ...
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