Photoshop :: Path/Pen Tool

Sep 15, 2005

I've had a problem with the pen tool for a while now...
On the odd occasion when I am creating a new path, it inverts itself, i.e. when I select it I get the opposite of what I have masked, (also the Path icon background will switch from grey to white indicating the path has reversed).

I've had this problem in version 7/CS1 and CS2, my normal fix is to ditch the prefs and I get the tool back the way it should be but this is proving a pain.

I thought it could be a keyboard shortcut that I was hitting by mistake but I can't seem to find any reference to a short cut for this. (Searched online and Ninness book Power Shortcuts.)

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Illustrator :: Created Text On Curved Path Using Pen Tool And Type On Path Tool

Feb 13, 2014

I created text on a curved path using the pen tool and the the type on a path tool. However, there are portions of the text that I want to taper. For example, my text begins horizontally, continues to the right, and gradually curves downward. As the text curves downward I would like it to taper smoothly into a narrower and narrower text.

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Illustrator :: How To Use Width Tool On A Path Made By Pen Tool But Not Brush Strokes

Mar 28, 2013

How come the width tool can ne used on a path made by pen tool but not brush strokes? Is a brush stroke not a path??

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Photoshop :: Path Tool?

Dec 5, 2002

Every time I path something and then try to mark and fill in any kind color I get a blur around the marked area.

I have the swedish Photoshop and donno what the name of it, but maybe I can explain:

in the marked area you can choose in the meny, so that you get a kind of fuzz around the marked are, when you fill it up you get a blur around the marked area. It�s this Im trying to explain, I get this fuzzu marked area around when Im trying to fill in the color on the path that I have selected and marked.

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Photoshop :: Pen Tool / Path

Oct 12, 2004

I have been reading about the Pen Tool and according to what I am reading (off various websites) here is what I am supposed to do...

1. Open a new workspace

2. Click the Pen Tool

3. Make a path using 4 or so anchor points

4. Select the Brush tool

5. Click on the Paths tab (on the right where the layers are)

6. Double-click on the path to save it.

7. Then right-click on the path and choose STROKE PATH.

The only problem is that my STROKE PATH is DISABLED.

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Photoshop :: How To Add Stoke Path Using Pen Tool On CS6 (mac)

Nov 24, 2012

I'm a beginner at photoshop and I'm only 14 years old. I need to know this for my GCSE project.

I'm trying to create something similar to this:

Using pen tool and stroke path, but when i use the pen tool I'm not sure how to add the stroke path like that.

I've used CS4 previously at school and when you right clicked on the path it came up with this:

I haven't a clue how to get that up on CS6 (on mac) and when you right click it, it just seems to continue adding the path.

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Photoshop :: Smooth Path Tool

Feb 27, 2013

In the past I have traced the outline of an image using the pen tool by placing as many points along the contour or outline as possible. Once I closed the path the appearance was not perfectly smooth.

I remember using a tool after that to smooth the path that would eliminate any uneven or jagged edges and make the curves really smooth. How to do this in CS6?

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Photoshop :: Pen Tool Color Path

Oct 11, 2012

I am working with the pen tool on a gray background and it is very painful to clearly see the pen tool lines...... What is a simple way to work around these problem?

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Photoshop :: Pen Tool Path Color

Mar 21, 2012

Although I think the pen tool could be an excellent way of making selections, I find that in many situations the path color hardly shows against a midtone or gray area I want to select.

Furthermore I find the tangent line makes things worse since it's the same color as the path (gray) and can easily obscure the selection I attempt to make.

Is it really not possible to change the path color when using the pen tool?

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Photoshop :: Stitching Using Path Tool

Sep 28, 2004

when I create stiching look, such as this ---------, I've created a line and ereased the middle part.

But is there any way I can create a path and somehow manupilate the pen/pencil to create the stitch?

I already know the "spacing" function on the brushes palette. This doesent really create "-". It's more of ".".

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Photoshop :: The Path-tool Keeps Filling

Jul 13, 2005

It's probably very easy, but I still can't figure it out. When I use the path-tool (Photoshop CS2), I keep getting a filled spline. But I'd rather just have an empty one instead, maybe even with a different brush? Is this possible without switching to Illustrator?

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Photoshop :: One Point Circle Path With Pen Tool?

Nov 26, 2012

drawing a circle path with one point and dragging or something like this.

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Photoshop :: Type Tool - Text On A Path

Mar 6, 2012

I created a path with the type tool, selected the path in the Paths panel, I started typing on the path and the type followed the path, though I chose edit > free transform path and scaled it, though the text did not move with the new path and now it is no longer on the path?

1. Why did the text not stay on the path as I transformed it?
2. How do you hide the path so you do not have to see it? I want it there only as a guide for my text to flow across.

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Photoshop :: Pen Tool Can Only Fill In One Path At A Time

May 14, 2013

I've recently upgraded to Photoshop CS5.1 and I've encountered that the pen tool will only let me fill in one path at a time. Older versions of Photoshop would fill in all the paths at the same time so I don't see why the pen tool would be capable of doing that in a newer version.

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Photoshop :: Path Selection Tool Crashes In CS6

Jun 3, 2012

I want to change my Path Selection tool options but every time I select the Path Selection tool in the tool bar, Photoshop CS6 crashes. I would like to select the Constrain Path Dragging option which I believe is in the options bar?

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Photoshop :: Pen Tool Path Continuity Breaks After Undo (CS6)?

May 26, 2012

With all that adobe has done with this version, but not only that has changed. Lets say that im drawing a path with the pen tool and I get it wrong putting the last segnment and press Ctrl+Z to Undo, the path breaks and you have to go back and click on the last point again to keep drawing.....

Another thing that im experimenting is that the intuos3 in illustrator 6 the selection even with the double click on the side of the pencil is getting stuck for a brief moment when i stop pressing the pen in the tablet surface.

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Photoshop :: CS6 Direct Selection Tool Without Altering Path

Jun 12, 2012

Prior to Photoshop CS6, a curve on a path could be moved using the Direct Selection Tool without altering the path beyond the two enclosing points. If you manipulated the curve, only the inside handles of the two points (that create the curve) would change - and only in length - as shown below:

Unfortunately, in Photoshop CS6, if you manipulate the path curve with the Direct Selection Tool, the handles both sides of the points move freely - affecting the path beyond those points:

- is there a way to revert to the prior behaviour? The Photoshop CS6 behaviour may seem more intuitive (or something), but it's less precise and alter parts of the path that are fine already.

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Photoshop :: Path Select Tool For Rounding Edges

Oct 16, 2013

How to make the selection using the 'Path Select Tool' to auto fit the image edge to edge. The reason is that I have 9 images that have to be exactly the same size with slightly rounded corners for a website header, one for each country. Is there any way to auto fit?

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Photoshop :: I Cant Resize Both My Pen Tool Fill And Path At Same Time

Apr 18, 2009

i cant resize my pen tool path and fill shape at the same time, it just changes the size of the path and leaves the fill separate and unchanged.

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Photoshop :: How To Disable Auto Select For The Path Selection Tool

Jan 3, 2013

For the move tool you can choose to disable auto selection, auto select a group, or auto select a layer. By default though the path selection tool autoselects a layer. How can I disable autoselection?

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Photoshop :: Can't Select (stroke Path) In CS6 To Taper Pen Tool Edges?

May 29, 2012

For some reason I can't select the "stroke path" option with the pen tool in photoshop to add tapers to my pen tool strokes. I can only get dead lines. why is this not working?

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Photoshop :: CS6 Pen Tool - Clicking And Dragging On Existing Path Should Not Change

May 2, 2012

CS6 Pen tool, clicking and dragging on an existing path should not change the angle on the adjacent radius handles. It should only dynamically adjust the length of the existing radius handles, based on which direction you drag. It should only affect that one segment and not affect the bordering angles. I've been pathing with Adobe products for 25 years and this should not change now. I want to be able to fine tune ONE line segment without affecting its neighboring segments. The "new" behavior should only occur with a modifier. If the Mothership deems this is the only way to do this moving forward, at LEAST give your long-standing customers a modifier, such as the shift key to enable us to keep working as we have been for decades.

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Photoshop :: Fill Closed Path After Shape Tool Not Working?

Jun 15, 2012

I draw a shape with the paths option using the shape tool,

ive selected and highlighted a visible normal layer at full opacity in normal blend mode.

right click the path and choose fill path... I have a colour selected already,

nothing happens...?

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Photoshop :: Disable Double-Click Isolation With Path Selection Tool

Jun 24, 2013

When working with Paths in photoshop, I have developed a work flow that revolves around adding anchor points to an existing path and repositioning the added anchor point with the Direct Selection Tool.

The Issue I am having is whenever I create an anchor point and attempt to move it too quickly, that it instead enters isolation mode and the point is not moved. The result either having to greatly reduce the speed at which I work or repeat the movement several times until it works.

Is there a way to disable this feature?

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Photoshop :: Pen Tool - Filled Path / Layer And Transform But Does Not Give Enough Adjustment?

Mar 23, 2012

The Pen Tool is my favorite / go to selection tool. But can it do the following...I've made a path and converted it to a selection, then filled the area with a color or texture (on it's own layer).

Now I find that I need to adjust (fine tune) the shape I've created / filled with color or texture to better fit how / where it's being used. Is is possible to invoke the path handles and get it to adjust the filled area as you move / adjust the path. (This is not a shape, not using the shape tool.)

I can select the filled path / layer and free transform but that does not give me a fine enough adjustment.Puppet Warp doesn't really fit the bill eitherA good example of what I want to achieve is similar to when you put type on a path. When you adjust the path the type moves to conform to the changes in the path. I want to do the same thing with the area I filled using the path.

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Photoshop :: Pen Tool In CC - Draw Path / Line Extremely Jagged And Rough

Oct 25, 2013

Did the programmers make the pen tool in CC worse or am I missing something. If I draw a path in cc and stroke it with a 2px hard brush the line is extremely jagged/rough. If I do it in CS6 that I own, the line is smooth and very fine. What gives?

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GIMP :: Make Parallel Shapes Using Path Tool Similar To Photoshop?

Mar 13, 2012

way to make parallel shapes using the Path Tool similar to Photoshop?

I haven't used Photoshop in a while, but I remember that you could hold CTRL (on PC) and click with the Pen Tool and it would straighten up your shape for you once the paths are connected and would like to do similar in GIMP but can't find out how.

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Mar 5, 2012

Tried to remove some cables from an image using Russel Brown's video making use of the pen tool/path and the spot healing brush with content aware. I'm pretty sure I followed his tutorial exactly but it did not work satisfactorily. Are there any other tweaks I should be using to remove these cables and replace them with the background details?

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Mar 8, 2011

Text Along Path tool. I create a path then select the text tool and type some text. I click on the Text along Path button and an outline of my text shows up along my path. That's as far as I can go. How do I make the text stick there? How do I complete this process. I know the solution is simple but I can't figure it out and I don't see it in the GIMP manual.

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GIMP :: Path Tool Won't Curve

Sep 24, 2013

I had actually just used it to render something, and went to create a new path to continue my picture. However, the path tool decided it doesn't like to curve anymore so when I click on the line it simply moves the object. I didn't change any settings between finishing my first path and starting the second. It is still in design mode.

I've also wanted to ask if it is possible to link two anchors together when one of the anchors in question is in a complete path. Like, say I have three lines and anchors forming a triangle, shouldn't I be able to link a new anchor to one of the existing ones? Because I sure as heck can't.

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Oct 12, 2013

I was drawing a path in after effects and I saved the file. The next day I opened it and tried to continue drawing on that path and I could not connect to it. how to connect to the path?

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