This is blowing my mind. This is like the ultimate shortcut for everything I hate about drawing backgrounds. This is LIFE CHANGING. You can make it line your shapes in a brush stroke?! Without having to redo the edges by hand?!? Amazing!!! Thank you so so so much!!! Edit: I just finished watching, and seeing you paint that bg literally made tears well up in my eyes. I suddenly feel like backgrounds aren't beyond me. You just brought them into reach with a single video. I can't thank you enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Aw geez, I'm really gonna cry.
I'm a graphic designer for a museum and I spend my job making illustrations in AI mostly - but I forgot about all the nice things the pen tool can do in photoshop! Omg!!! What wizardry, even I learned something
I'm not stranger to using the pen tool. I've even made some vector illustrations with it. But I never knew photoshop had a dialogue box for it with all of those features. Wow. Thanks for this!
I have literally been using the pen tool in Photoshop for decades. This is one of the most useful tutorials I have ever seen on the subject, and from now on this is the one I will send my friends to!
On Windows you can also press Ctrl + Enter (Cmd + Return on Mac?) to convert the path to a selection. Dunno if there are any default shortcuts for the other functions.
OK. Total game changer. I can't believe I didn't even know about the shortcuts at the bottom of the path toolbar. That just shaved SO much time off how I've been doing it. Thank you.
I've been using the pen tool for over a decade and I never knew about the ability to outline the path in a brush stroke!! OMG! All those hours - DAYS spent going over my sharp lines! This was a game changer for me! THANK YOU!!
wow why did that seemed so more more easier to understand than too many videos I've watched. I hated the pen tool but watching this I feel more confident to give it another try. Great job! Thank you too much!
This was immensely helpful. I'm just learning photoshop for illustration rather than photo editing and I can tell that the pen tool and paths are going to be my new bff as far as speeding up workflow and filling in areas smoothly and quickly!!
Such an easy and concise video. Every other video on the pen tool is almost 20 minutes. Thank you for this! As a new layout & BG Paint artist this is immensely helpful.
You are the absolute best ever!!! I knew how to create paths and a cumbersome way of creating a selection, what you showed us just made the pen tool infinitely more useful. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
As a graphic and web designer for my day job, I use the pen tool constantly, like all day long for vector illustration. Great tutorial for those who haven’t used it before and it transitions seamlessly to Illustrator as well.
Wow! Absolutely fabulous insight into how the pen tool can be used... I feel like you've solved an issue I didn't even know I was having while doing digital art! Thank you so much!!! I have watched three of your videos today and I love your way of sharing information. Your dog is a lovely bonus 😀❤️👍🏽
I am at the point where I start to use photoshop seriously. Having (...mis?) used photoshop without pen tool,...pixel + pixel + pixel +... .. . you get the drift;-), it is the pen tool that turned photoshop into a tool I can use! I *love your presentation style! I found out about the pen tool a few days ago. *Until today I have endured countless videos from, it has to be said, all made by guys, who all were plagued by a need to entertain...most videos three times longer than yours, none providing the amount of content you deliver in this one video. I use photoshop as a tool to connect photography and painting. :-) Should you by now feel a calling as photoshop instructor, ... just follow your inner voice:-)
Awesome vid. out of curiousity why do you use photoshop instead of illustrator? I only ask cause it looks like you can achieve a lot of the same effects in illustrator and you'd also have the advantage of not worrying about resolution.
Maybe for the brush options. Like you can use vector brushes in illustrator but for really nice textures for really detailed work, photoshop seems better.
Yeah I'd say that was true for most of the other illustration stuff she does, but everything she does in the tutorial can be accomplished in illustrator. Don't get wrong, I'll choose photoshop over illustrator any day but I just thought since she's doing TV it would come in handy making her illustrations in vector if they need to zoom into certain areas for different shots. Anyways just a thought
I think illustrator has some issues right now? Lag issues and jittery response. I saw that somewhere. I don't personally use it so I don't know for sure.
Nick Khoo illustrator isn’t nearly as fast and ease of use as PS. You saw the way she created a selection off the pen tool, filled it, and erased the cloud with a feathered edge? Yeah, try doing that in illustrator without a hassle.
You could use Illustrator to the same effect, but I've noticed that it will lag if you use too many different brushes; usually by then you have to expand the shapes. With Photoshop, it's simply easier to work with texture while Illustrator is far superior in building shapes.
Wow this is awesome, I already tried the pen tool not only once and failed several times miserably than I watched another video where you were talking about how often you use it now and that you wanted to do a tutorial - I immediately searched for that video and here it is and it is perfect :D Finally I can get some use out of that tool :D And your little demo looks already stunning, I'm so glad I found your channel :))
I notice in one of your other videos you drew palm trees and you then made the notches in the leaves by seemingly making seperate path selections for each notch and deleting that aection of leaf colour.....how did you do that ?.. thanks : )
when you started working at Disney TV Studio, did they give you your own computer to use, and if yes, was it a Mac or a Windows? I know that you said in another video that you had time to figure things out because the assignment was in an early state for the company, but if it wasn't would they have given you time to adjust to your new job?
thanks for this! im gonna give this a try... actually im not a pen tool user for same reason u mentioned before on your previous vid. but seeing your how to's made me want to give this a try.
Hi, Laura, I really really love your tutorial videos for brushes, pan tool, and background. It's super useful, and your drawing is amazing. Thank you for share these skills and information. Looking forward to other tutorial videos! x
Thank you for this! I've avoided the pen tool ever since I started Photoshop because I could never get it to do what I wanted. I'm definitely going to use it now!
Oh my Gosh! This video changes everything!!! I used to hate pen tool, but after this video, you made me love it!! Just... mind-blowing! You're really awesome for sharing your experiences, knowledge and taking your time to help aspiring artist!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! And keep up with your amazing job!
Thank you so much for this video! It makes backgrounds so much less daunting. I was wondering, when you've finished with a path, do you just delete it and start working on the next one? Because I can't seem to get rid of the pen tool without deleting the path?
The lined circle button that strokes the edges of the path only stays on the inside edge (giving it a hard external edge) of the path for me no matter which brush I use - how do you get the brush stroke to center along the path? Great video btw I really learned a lot from it!
thank you! I've been looking through the pen settings and I can't find what would do this- maybe it's different on different versions of photoshop, I would try googling it and hopefully you'll find an adobe message board that explains! it's probably just a setting!
I haven’t found something this life changing since I bought my cintiq! Thank you so much for this, another great video. I did have a question. I noticed that when you were working with the clouds you were using, what I assume is the eraser tool, were you using the same for the mountains and grassy area? Or was that a brush with a different color chosen?
Brenda M. so glad it was helpful! it was just a large airbrush I used as an eraser and then I used it as a brush as well on the mountains and grass. I usually use textured brushes but the airbrush worked well for a quick paint! :)
All I can say is literally holy shit. I've always avoided the pen tool because I didn't know how to work it, and this has completely opened my eyes. Thank you SO MUCH.
Ok maybe I am getting a little crazy watching your videos. Sorry they are just so much fun. This one was very useful. Of course I will have to slow every single step down to understand it but I am going to use this when designing my sketches to paint. Thanks! (You make it look so easy and so hard at the same time.) Hard because I know it isn't easy. Ha!
Thank you! as someone who rarely use pen tool, it's very useful. I use Photoshop for paint and graphic design, but doesn't really comfortable with pen tool
Sooo that demo at the end was MIND BLOWING!! This is coming from someone who has never seen the ‘behind the scenes’ process of computer animation. How long did that demo part take in real time? So cool!! Going to start watching Tangled: The Series again now!
I've been using PS for such a long time and always thought the pen tool was useless (I used it a lot in AI). Now, it's a game changer. Thanks for this tutorial, it was super helpful!
Hi Laura, I am frequently using the pen tool for creating shapes and them clip mask the shadows/highlights/render of the object. I however use pen tool for creating shapes on separate layers, how is that different when you are using it as a path? Isn't that different and harder to edit later? for example I use A shortcut to edit a point, V to select next shape. This cmd click confuses me, also your layer remains looking like a raster layer. I am interested why do you prefer this method? I've always found it harder making paths instead of shapes. Great tutorials by the way, I appreciate all you do for us.
If I have a complex subject that I want to cut out using the pen tool, (if I lose my start position), what’s the easiest way for me to find it again? Thanks 🙂
omg, this video tackles the exact issue I was dealing with today. I never knew about split curves, this is so useful. :') Thank you so much for the explanation and example!
This is blowing my mind. This is like the ultimate shortcut for everything I hate about drawing backgrounds. This is LIFE CHANGING. You can make it line your shapes in a brush stroke?! Without having to redo the edges by hand?!? Amazing!!! Thank you so so so much!!!
Edit: I just finished watching, and seeing you paint that bg literally made tears well up in my eyes. I suddenly feel like backgrounds aren't beyond me. You just brought them into reach with a single video. I can't thank you enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Aw geez, I'm really gonna cry.
Micheal Miko I’m so glad it was helpful! 😊
This video is so helpful, thank you!! When you made the shape’s edges look hand drawn with a brush I actually gasped out loud😂 this is life changing!
the magic of the pen tool! 😆 so glad it was helpful!
Same here! I became a meme for 5 seconds XD
I'm a graphic designer for a museum and I spend my job making illustrations in AI mostly - but I forgot about all the nice things the pen tool can do in photoshop! Omg!!! What wizardry, even I learned something
So do you make ads for the pieces presented in the museum or how can I imagine your job to be like? I'm curious :)
The pen tool haa always been such a mistery for me now I cant wait to use it whenI get home! Super useful, tks Laura!
I'm not stranger to using the pen tool. I've even made some vector illustrations with it. But I never knew photoshop had a dialogue box for it with all of those features.
Wow.
Thanks for this!
I have literally been using the pen tool in Photoshop for decades. This is one of the most useful tutorials I have ever seen on the subject, and from now on this is the one I will send my friends to!
On Windows you can also press Ctrl + Enter (Cmd + Return on Mac?) to convert the path to a selection. Dunno if there are any default shortcuts for the other functions.
that's awesome! command + return works!
OK. Total game changer. I can't believe I didn't even know about the shortcuts at the bottom of the path toolbar. That just shaved SO much time off how I've been doing it. Thank you.
I've been using the pen tool for over a decade and I never knew about the ability to outline the path in a brush stroke!! OMG! All those hours - DAYS spent going over my sharp lines! This was a game changer for me! THANK YOU!!
this is rad! always wondered how people painted so clean looking. excited to try it out
Almost threw my iPad. The pen tool is the future!
Hi laura. I loved that tutorial video. And watching the speed painting at the end was very very interesting to see!
wow why did that seemed so more more easier to understand than too many videos I've watched. I hated the pen tool but watching this I feel more confident to give it another try. Great job! Thank you too much!
This was immensely helpful. I'm just learning photoshop for illustration rather than photo editing and I can tell that the pen tool and paths are going to be my new bff as far as speeding up workflow and filling in areas smoothly and quickly!!
Such an easy and concise video. Every other video on the pen tool is almost 20 minutes. Thank you for this! As a new layout & BG Paint artist this is immensely helpful.
I couldn't thank you enough for this life changing pen tool tips! I gasped every, like, 10 seconds. Thank you so much!
You are the absolute best ever!!! I knew how to create paths and a cumbersome way of creating a selection, what you showed us just made the pen tool infinitely more useful. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you so much for your videos about the animation industry, they are so so helpful, you inspired me a lot
very neat and clean explanation...
As a graphic and web designer for my day job, I use the pen tool constantly, like all day long for vector illustration. Great tutorial for those who haven’t used it before and it transitions seamlessly to Illustrator as well.
Life saver! I could never figure out the tool and in 5 minutes you've answered all my questions!! Thank you!!
Kooky Does Stuff agreed! I’ve tried to get the hang of this tool too! Such a nice tutorial
I love the background in the video! I love the side tables and the minimal style in your room. Great video!
thank you!! I love minimalist style!
Wow! Absolutely fabulous insight into how the pen tool can be used... I feel like you've solved an issue I didn't even know I was having while doing digital art! Thank you so much!!! I have watched three of your videos today and I love your way of sharing information. Your dog is a lovely bonus 😀❤️👍🏽
Very cool...you've made a lot of people happy!
This is super cool!! I would love to see more screen recordings on how you use the tools when doing your art pieces on Photoshop! 🤩
I am at the point where I start to use photoshop seriously. Having (...mis?) used photoshop without pen tool,...pixel + pixel + pixel +... .. . you get the drift;-), it is the pen tool that turned photoshop into a tool I can use! I *love your presentation style! I found out about the pen tool a few days ago. *Until today I have endured countless videos from, it has to be said, all made by guys, who all were plagued by a need to entertain...most videos three times longer than yours, none providing the amount of content you deliver in this one video. I use photoshop as a tool to connect photography and painting. :-) Should you by now feel a calling as photoshop instructor, ... just follow your inner voice:-)
Thank you for doing this video. It's very useful.
This is a great tutorial. Thank you
I've always struggled with the pen tool in Photoshop and this cleared up so many issues I've been having. Thank You!!!
You just blew my mind! I’ve been trying the pen tool out on and off. Your tutorial is so simple, straight forward and informative! Thaaaaankyooou!
Just seeing this video... wow, I don’t use PS for now but I wish I had seen it when I was. Thanks!
I'm so going to try this
Awesome vid. out of curiousity why do you use photoshop instead of illustrator? I only ask cause it looks like you can achieve a lot of the same effects in illustrator and you'd also have the advantage of not worrying about resolution.
Maybe for the brush options. Like you can use vector brushes in illustrator but for really nice textures for really detailed work, photoshop seems better.
Yeah I'd say that was true for most of the other illustration stuff she does, but everything she does in the tutorial can be accomplished in illustrator. Don't get wrong, I'll choose photoshop over illustrator any day but I just thought since she's doing TV it would come in handy making her illustrations in vector if they need to zoom into certain areas for different shots. Anyways just a thought
I think illustrator has some issues right now? Lag issues and jittery response. I saw that somewhere. I don't personally use it so I don't know for sure.
Nick Khoo illustrator isn’t nearly as fast and ease of use as PS. You saw the way she created a selection off the pen tool, filled it, and erased the cloud with a feathered edge? Yeah, try doing that in illustrator without a hassle.
You could use Illustrator to the same effect, but I've noticed that it will lag if you use too many different brushes; usually by then you have to expand the shapes. With Photoshop, it's simply easier to work with texture while Illustrator is far superior in building shapes.
Wow this is awesome, I already tried the pen tool not only once and failed several times miserably than I watched another video where you were talking about how often you use it now and that you wanted to do a tutorial - I immediately searched for that video and here it is and it is perfect :D Finally I can get some use out of that tool :D And your little demo looks already stunning, I'm so glad I found your channel :))
yay!! so glad it's helpful! and thank you :)
I notice in one of your other videos you drew palm trees and you then made the notches in the leaves by seemingly making seperate path selections for each notch and deleting that aection of leaf colour.....how did you do that ?.. thanks : )
This might be the clearest pen tool video I’ve ever seen 🙌🏼 thank youuu!
when you started working at Disney TV Studio, did they give you your own computer to use, and if yes, was it a Mac or a Windows? I know that you said in another video that you had time to figure things out because the assignment was in an early state for the company, but if it wasn't would they have given you time to adjust to your new job?
that was a great tutorial..tq
thanks for this! im gonna give this a try... actually im not a pen tool user for same reason u mentioned before on your previous vid. but seeing your how to's made me want to give this a try.
Redbougainvilia yay i’m glad!! good luck!
Hi, Laura, I really really love your tutorial videos for brushes, pan tool, and background.
It's super useful, and your drawing is amazing.
Thank you for share these skills and information.
Looking forward to other tutorial videos! x
Thank you so much for this video Laura! Finally the pen tool will stop being a frustrating mystery tool for me!
Can't wait to try this out! Thank you so much! Watching your environment speed paints is the only time I'm ever inspired to do backgrounds haha
This tutorial was specifically recommended to me and it is a GAME CHANGER!! Thank you so much, Laura!
Laura you are a Star
Thank you for this! I've avoided the pen tool ever since I started Photoshop because I could never get it to do what I wanted. I'm definitely going to use it now!
I love your videos, they are very inspirational and the tips and how to are the best! Thank you for sharing
Thank you SO mush for what you're doing! This is really helping for artists!
Aaah Thank you so much! FINALLY I know how to use the pen tool!! Love you!
Good video. On what, and how do you get the app?
Thank you so much for this video! these Photoshop videos are so helpful
You amazing love your channel
Very good! Maybe you can try to create and paint with 10moons Graphic Tablet
So helpful, thanks Laura!
I didn't know you could do that with the brushes!! Whaaat! Thank you so much for the tutorial! I'm so gonna try this when I get home :>
Wow!!! Thank you for this tutorial, I learned a lot and you explained it very well!!! Thanks!!!
Oh my Gosh! This video changes everything!!! I used to hate pen tool, but after this video, you made me love it!! Just... mind-blowing! You're really awesome for sharing your experiences, knowledge and taking your time to help aspiring artist!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! And keep up with your amazing job!
yay so glad it was helpful!! and thank you!!
Thank you so much for this video! It makes backgrounds so much less daunting. I was wondering, when you've finished with a path, do you just delete it and start working on the next one? Because I can't seem to get rid of the pen tool without deleting the path?
I'm not really good at backgrounds but since I saw your videos I want to practice more!
loved this video!! I didn't even know what pen tool meant, and now i'm excited to try it myself! thank you!
The lined circle button that strokes the edges of the path only stays on the inside edge (giving it a hard external edge) of the path for me no matter which brush I use - how do you get the brush stroke to center along the path?
Great video btw I really learned a lot from it!
thank you! I've been looking through the pen settings and I can't find what would do this- maybe it's different on different versions of photoshop, I would try googling it and hopefully you'll find an adobe message board that explains! it's probably just a setting!
I haven’t found something this life changing since I bought my cintiq! Thank you so much for this, another great video. I did have a question. I noticed that when you were working with the clouds you were using, what I assume is the eraser tool, were you using the same for the mountains and grassy area? Or was that a brush with a different color chosen?
Brenda M. so glad it was helpful! it was just a large airbrush I used as an eraser and then I used it as a brush as well on the mountains and grass. I usually use textured brushes but the airbrush worked well for a quick paint! :)
Laura Price ohh! I see!
Thank you so much for this! I've used pen tool before on illustrator but the one in photoshop is pretty different and I was always scared to use it.
All I can say is literally holy shit. I've always avoided the pen tool because I didn't know how to work it, and this has completely opened my eyes. Thank you SO MUCH.
VERY useful, again ! I discovered your channel today by chance and I'm already suscribed. I always hated the pen tool but now I want to try it asap !!
i love it sooo much
my little cousin loves tangled the series and the art thx
Ok maybe I am getting a little crazy watching your videos. Sorry they are just so much fun. This one was very useful. Of course I will have to slow every single step down to understand it but I am going to use this when designing my sketches to paint. Thanks! (You make it look so easy and so hard at the same time.) Hard because I know it isn't easy. Ha!
hahah love it!! thank you!
Thanks for share it , you are amazing
So helpful thank you!
Thank you! as someone who rarely use pen tool, it's very useful. I use Photoshop for paint and graphic design, but doesn't really comfortable with pen tool
I'm not an artist but this is your second video I've watched....I'm soo impressed by your Photoshop skills
omg thank youuuuu 😍 so helpful
Love it !!😍😍😍
Nicely done. Thanks for putting this together. I just subscribed to your channel.
Sooo that demo at the end was MIND BLOWING!! This is coming from someone who has never seen the ‘behind the scenes’ process of computer animation. How long did that demo part take in real time? So cool!! Going to start watching Tangled: The Series again now!
This was very helpful! Thank you!
This is super helpful! I could never wrap my head around the pen tool
Im in love
Thank you so much for this video!
I've been using PS for such a long time and always thought the pen tool was useless (I used it a lot in AI). Now, it's a game changer. Thanks for this tutorial, it was super helpful!
great tutorial, very helpful! thanks!
That was awesome thank you!!! 😊
Very cool!
great tutorial! your channel is really helpful
How do you do so the brush looks pointy on the edges? 😳 mine just look squared.
Instantly added this to my photoshop tutorial playlist. This was driving me insane at work because I couldn't figure it out! THANK YOU
THANK YOU
Oh my, I've been waiting this tutorial for so long and it's so helpful! Thank you Laura
I LOVE YOU, LULU 😭❤️
THANK YOUUU!!
Hi Laura, I am frequently using the pen tool for creating shapes and them clip mask the shadows/highlights/render of the object. I however use pen tool for creating shapes on separate layers, how is that different when you are using it as a path? Isn't that different and harder to edit later? for example I use A shortcut to edit a point, V to select next shape. This cmd click confuses me, also your layer remains looking like a raster layer. I am interested why do you prefer this method? I've always found it harder making paths instead of shapes. Great tutorials by the way, I appreciate all you do for us.
Thank you so much! I can’t believe I’m just discovering your RUclips channel now.
You really should do a “paint/draw” with me video! So fascinating!
If I have a complex subject that I want to cut out using the pen tool, (if I lose my start position), what’s the easiest way for me to find it again? Thanks 🙂
I watch it the second time! Coz it so simple and so useful!
so helpful!!
Super helpful tutorial! Thank you Laura! :)
omg, this video tackles the exact issue I was dealing with today. I never knew about split curves, this is so useful. :') Thank you so much for the explanation and example!
I love your videos Lulu! New subscriber, keep it up!
omg thank you so much!
DUDE! This video’s amazing! You’re a life saver!