Selection With The Pen Tool
You are about to tackle one of the tougher tools within Photoshop, the Pen Tool. Because we are a beginner/intermediate site, today we are just going to go over the basics of how to use the Pen Tool to make a selection. Back in the Text Features tutorial, we showed you how to type on a Path and you created the Path using the Pen Tool. Today we take you 1 step closer to learning this feared tool.

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The Incredible Pen Tool
A lot of tutorials tell you to use the pen tool; this one will show you HOW to use the pen tool. Creating true vector shapes, partial pixel selections, curvature modification, and saved paths are just some of its features.

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Coloring in Hair
In this tutorial you learn how to color hair.

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Cutting out an item with the pen tool
Photoshop's pen tool you have two options: Create a new work path and create a new shape layer. You can do all kinds of things using the pen tool, you can use it are we are going to now.

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Shadowing Anime
After coloring Anime, now we are gonna shadow it. With shadows, it will look even better. This is a very simple tutorial if you know how to use the pen-tool.

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Extracting Hair
Removing characters from their backgrounds is rarely as easy as using the 'extract' tool, especially when hair or fur is involved. This tutorial details an simple yet devious workaround for times when you need to mask out hair/fur.

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Pen Tool Selecting and Masking
In this tutorial, we'll walk through the steps required to select an object by using the pen tool in photoshop.

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The Pen Tool
In this tutorial you will learn how to manipulate a Photoshop shape by using some basic principles of the pen tool.

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Pen Tool
Use the pen tool with this tutorial (which additionally has a short movie clip with it).

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Extracting with the Pen Tool in Photoshop
Although there are multiple techniques for extracting images from a background, this technique is not only incredibly accurate, but will introduce you to the power of the pen tool.

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Creating Curves with the Pen Tool
Learn how to create smooth curves using the Pen Tool. It is recommended that you follow along on Photoshop while reading this article. This will make the learning experience much more enjoyable.

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Blend a surreal mix of retro and modern art styles
You'll learn how to use brushes to replicate clouds, dust and grime, how to add foreground blur to objects to give the impression of depth, and will also see how the Warp tool can manipulate shapes. Our tutorial will show you how to enhance detail with curves, and how to match different tones with hue and saturation. You'll also be working with the Pen tool to mask and edit stock images and learn a great trick to mask hair.

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Learning the Pen Tool (Complete Guide)
This tutorial will show you anything and everything about the Adobe Photoshop Pen Tool. It is a complete guide to the tool.

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Drawing a Vector Vista Pen in Photoshop
Learn how to draw a cool vector pen using the Pen Tool and various Blending Options.

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The Pen Tool
Commonly overlooked by design newbies, and found in most design programs, the Pen Tool is something you really should know how to use.

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The Pen-Tool
Pick up some pointers regarding the pen tool.

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Hair Selection
In this tutorial I will show you how to do a selection to hair using background eraser tool in Photoshop.

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Adobe Photoshop Pen Tool
Learn how to work with Photoshop Pen Tool.

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How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen
In this tutorial, you'll learn to design a realistic calligraphy pen from scratch. The tutorial involves a simple use of the Pen Tool and a few flexible Layer Styles. Lighting and reflection techniques are explained throughout the tutorial. This might be a quite useful for icon enthusiasts.

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Hair Colouring
Color hair in a realistic way, to get that amazing hair dye effect.

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Colorize Lineart With Cell Style Technique
In this tutorial I will show you how to color a line art using minimum color and just brightness and contrast to achieve a clean, yet effective look... This tutorial is meant for beginners who just started photoshopping... However, some knowledge of the pen tool is recommended... For those who never used the pen tool, I included a mini tutorial explaining the very basics. This technique will work on photoshop from version 7 onwards... Let's get started!

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Motorola AQ4 Presentation
What you need to know before starting this tutorial : - You need to know where are all buttons/functions in Photoshop - You need to know how to use Extract Tool and/or Pen Tool

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Cutting Out Hair
Bad hair day? Fix it! In this tutorial we will extract a subject, hair intact, from her background, and place her into another background.

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Basic Anime Hair
Comprising of thousands of curves, shadows, and highlights, hair is difficult to color effectively, but make it anime-style hair and the problem gets even worse! This tutorial provides a detailed walkthrough for one way of tackling this advanced artistic dilemma.

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Sin City Coloring
Learn how to achieve the coloring effect similar to the movie.

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Free Style Coloring
Learn some very useful freestyle techniques and tricks for coloring lineart images in photoshop with this tutorial.

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Change hair shade/tone
This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to change hair shade/tone. You can use this effect to make your hair slightly lighter or darker.

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Cutting out wavy hair and body
How to cut out wavy hair and body, in this case the beautiful hair and body of Scarlett Johansson.

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Drawing Paths
Master the pen tool.

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Paths and the Pen tool
In this tutorial we'll cover Photoshop's Paths feature. Paths are a powerful tool and a big topic to cover. They're also quite tricky to get the hang of, but once you do, you'll never look back!

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Fun With Facial Hair
Photoshop provides a pretty easy way to make some fairly realistic looking facial hair. This tutorial will show you how fun and easy it is to add facial hair to a photo.

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Futuristic Ad Campaign for Jaguar
In this tutorial you'll learn how to work on different images, tools, special effects and create a artistic ad campaign for any product in Photoshop. This tutorial is created using Pen Tool, Smudge tool, Masking, Gradient, and some transform options.

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Changing Hair Color
Change the hair colour using adobe photoshopCS2.

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Hair Selection
This tutorial will shows how to select hair in an image.

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Design a Colorful Illustration
In this tutorial we will be learning how to design a colorful illustration. This will be created by using Ellipse Tool, Pen Tool, Brushes and Layer Masks. Lets get started !

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Partial Desaturate
In this tutorial you will learn how to perform partial desaturating to an image. This means some parts of the image will remain black and white and other part will be in colour. You will need to use the quick mask tool for this tutorial, but you can also use the pen tool if you wish.

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Advance Vectoring
Uses the pen tool to create a better vector appearance

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Digital Comic Coloring
Basic guide to coloring comics in the Marvel style. Learn to color comics like the pros.

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Hearts
You will learn how to conquer your pen tool to make a valentine-type heart.

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Custom Ride
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the pen tool to customize the color of your car.

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