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Get to Know Photoshop's Pen Tool

Experts use Photoshop's Pen Tool to get the best selections for difficult masking job. Easy? No. Best? Usually!
Written by Deke McClelland on September 18, 2009
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Categories: Graphics, Graphics Image Editing, Photo Image Editing, Photography, How-Tos

The Pen Tool is one of the most powerful but labor-intensive tools in all of Photoshop. Newbies select images with the likes of the quick select and magic wand tools. Both are highly automated, but they rarely work. Experts use the pen tool.

The Pen Tool takes some work to master, but it always works for you. In other words, learn to use the Pen Tool and you'll be prepared for any masking job.

The base photograph in the following video comes to us from Stas Perov of image vendor www.Fotolia.com.

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