The guy updates it quite often and it has loads of other goodies like perspective drawing lines, ellipses, circles, swooshes and so on. 30 one time purchase (if I recall correctly).
If you’re tempted to bail from this chapter because you’re not an artist, hold your horses-you can use the vector drawing tools in a variety of other ways. Photoshop has a plug-in, it's called 'Lazy Nezumi'. The first line segment alway starts out straight, but will convert to a. Unlike the things you draw by hand with the Brush tool or a real-world pencil, these vector objects are infinitely tweakable: You can move points and adjust the paths to create any shape you want, letting you make complex yet flexible works of art from scratch, as Figure 13-1 shows. Click and release in two spots in the image window and a straight line segment forms.
Instead, the vector drawing tools you’ll learn about in this chapter let you create a series of points Photoshop then adds a path between those points to form the outline of the shape. The program also includes all kinds of built-in shapes like circles, rectangles, and rounded rectangles that are incredibly easy to use ( The Vector Shape Tools shows an example of masking with the latter).īut what about creating more sophisticated drawings and illustrations? The good news is you don’t have to worry about drawing anything freehand, whether it’s a line or a curvy shape. The shape tool modes include a Shape mode. Or, as you learned in the previous chapter, grab the Brush tool, click a spot, and then Shift-click another spot it’s that simple. Using the shape tools you can draw rectangular, rounded rectangular, elliptical, polygon, line or custom shapes. To draw a straight line, just grab the Line tool (it’s one of the shape tools-see Drawing with the Shape Tools) and drag from one spot to another. The improved Reset All Tools command was first added in Photoshop CC 2014. But now, it also resets each spot in the Toolbar back to its default, primary tool. The Reset All Tools command still resets the tools back to their default settings in the Options Bar. If your first thought when someone mentions drawing is, “But I can’t even draw a straight line!” don’t worry: You can draw in Photoshop. In Photoshop CC, we no longer need to do that. Chapter 13. Drawing with the Vector Tools