How to make pen tool path a selection

The same principles can be applied to photoshop text. Lets give it a try. As before select the pen tool, right click and use the options available. Or you can export it straight into illustrator. Thanks for taking part in this tutorial, if you learned something new feel free to discuss it on our Facebook Fan Page. Tom has been a full-time internet marketer for two decades now, earning millions of dollars while living life on his own terms.

We are reader-supported. Can either of you attempt this on your machine? I'm using Photoshop Version Jonathon, I have tried various paths and options.

I am unable to recreate what you have seen. If there I a way to reset the options for this tool, that might be worth a try. I don't know how to do that. That's it! Resetting the Pen tool fixed the issue. Thank you both for your help.

Here is a walk-through I found for resetting a Photoshop tool. Related Conversations. Helpful Widget No Yes. How can we improve? Send Feedback. For this particular line of the chandelier, we used a scatter brush to evenly space the dots. Use the drop-down in pop-up shown to change the tool you're using to stroke the line with — for example, instead of whichever brush file you have selected, you may wish to switch to a pencil.

The toolbar at the top of the interface enables you to quickly decide on the Stroke and Fill colour of whatever you create with the Pen tool, instead of having to choose it manually. This article was originally published in ImagineFX, the world's best-selling magazine for digital artists. Buy issue or subscribe. Pen tool: Quick links. Mark White. Topics Photoshop.

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