How to Use Pen Tool in photoshop

 

Pen tool

pen tool is much more powerful, let’s experiment.

Go to Shape Tool → 4 Color mode.

4 Color mode offers multiple options that you can manipulate your shape.

And here’s my final composite:

Some of you might be thinking that you’ve seen something like this before. Don’t worry, that was just my demo. The next time we’ll explore tools that take your composite even further.

Part 4: Environments & Procedural Textures

Lets start with environments.

Environments offer a set of tools to manipulate the level geometry and diffuse color of the scene.

You can create volume, objects and even some global settings.

Create volume is the first one. You can see it has two properties. A mesh and a stencil volume. A mesh is the terrain or the container for the rest of the scene. The stencil volume is what we’ll use to fill the scene with the rest of the scene and to place the objects in.

Environments uses stencil volume to fill the scene with objects and 3D particles.

Adding volume is done by using

“AddVolume”, I already told you the syntax, but I want to clarify the properties for now.

I usually use the standard 3D volume panel to set the volume’s position, the height and the color of the stencil.

Environments lets you place 3D objects and 3D particles in your scene.

When I say “3D objects and 3D particles” I don’t just mean normal objects and particles, I mean those 3D objects and 3D particles that are actually 3D and not 2D.

The picture above represents a cube that can be placed anywhere in the scene. I added a texture and set a size to 100x100.

You can choose a color for the stencil volume, but you can also choose a color for the 3D objects as well.

When we’re finished with an environment, we can save it, or open it later. The latter is useful if you want to change something that you’ve just created in an environment.

Now we move to the diffuse color tool.

The diffuse color tool is quite easy to use, and if you don’t know how to use the default CSP pattern, or other preset color patterns, you can also see a tutorial.

The “disable color masking” is very useful, but it can also be dangerous because it hides all the tools.

I usually have a mask around the colors I’m about to use to avoid that.

To set the color pattern

 you use the slider, and the mask disappears when you don’t use it anymore.

The rgb spacebar sets the color by combining a color with the stencil color.

Here’s the same scene, with the RGB version.

We have an light and a dark image and we have a masked stencil color and the RGB version. You can see that the “disable color masking” is useful because we can see all the tools.

When we’re done with an environment, we can save it or open it later.