Scale Up Drawing Tool

To change the thickness of the line, do one of two things: 1) Double-click on the line you just created. This brings up the dialog box. You can change the thickness of the line by adjusting the line Style or Weight. OR 2) Click once on the line you just created and then choose the Line Style tool from the drawing toolbar.

Today I am going to walk you through my process for drawing a 2D floor plan in SketchUp from measurements I’ve taken at a client’s home or business (in the field).

Select a line thickness. For more choices, choose More Lines. This brings up the Format AutoShape dialog box. Suggestion: Adjust the width of the line to 6 pt for walls and 3 pt for windows. Remember to draw in scale, using the top and side rulers as guides. Dialog box If you wish to change the color of the line, select the line you just drew and click on the Line Color tool in the drawing toolbar.

For more color choices, click on the little triangle (just to the right of the tool) and choose a color from the palette that appears. If you have been working only with the line tool, and you wish to fill in an area with color or texture (to create a floor carpet for example), • Select the Freeform tool from AutoShapes->Lines. • Click on each corner of the area you wish to fill, forming a closed shape that will be on top of the existing area. • Double-click on that new shape to access the dialog box and customize the area. • Choose Draw->Order->Send to Back from the drawing toolbar to move the filled area behind other objects it may be covering. After drafting the walls and windows, doors and closets to scale, add.

Try to draw the dimension lines outside of the floor plan of the room. Use a very thin line width and choose a arrow heads for the dimension line style.

If you choose to insert clip art of furniture ( Insert->Picture->Clip Art.) make sure that the furniture is in 'floor plan view.' That is, make sure it appears as if it were flat, with the viewer looking down from above. Suggested categories to search for clip art include 'furniture' and 'office layout.' Or, use the AutoShapes, drawing, and color tools from the drawing tool bar and create your own furniture.

Make sure your furniture is to scale and is in proportion to your floor plan.

Step 2 Straight line paths Drawing a straight line is easy, you could use the line tool or the pen tool. Choose the Pen tool on the toolbox. Select the drawing option from the options bar to draw either a path, Shape layer or fill pixels. Click once to mark the starting point, then Ctrl-click Cmd-click) somewhere else (without dragging) to mark the ending point.

A straight line connects the dots. You can also keep clicking to keep adding straight line segments—to create, for example, an irregular straight-line enclosed shape.

Just remember to Ctrl-click) at the point where you want the line-adding to end. 3 Curved Paths Choosing the pen tool will enable you to draw paths easily. Choosing a different kind of pen tool will give you a different behavior.

Curves are more difficult than straight lines, but they come with practice. The key is to drag after placing each point. That is, as you create a point, don’t just click; rather, click and drag in the direction that you want your curve to go. The further you drag, the larger the arc will be between the current point and the next one that you create. Here are some basic curves.

Once you master these, you will be all set to draw almost any shape. Step 4 U-shaped curves Create a simple U curve.

The further you drag the bigger the curve will be. To create a U-shaped curve: 1. Drag downward. As you drag you will notice that two handles are being created. These handles determine how acute the curve will be and the direction that you are wanting to draw the curve. Move your pointer to the right, parallel with the first point that you made; click and drag upward.

Click and drag up and you will now see a U shaped curve being generated. The curve goes in the direction that you are dragging. Don’t worry if it’s not perfect; you can modify any curve. Step 5 Simple S curves Creating a simple S-curve.

Notice that as you change the angle of your drag, the shape of the curve also changes. An S-curve is only slightly more complex: 1. Drag to the left.

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Drag to the left again. Notice that you have a loose S curve. As you change the angle of your dragging, you change the shape of the curve. Step 6 Complex S curves The complex S-curve. Smooth loose curves are easily created with the pen tool. Don’t be misled by the title; the complex S curve is actually easy to create.

It’s called complex because it involves three points instead of two. In the previous examples, there were only two points that controlled the whole curve.

Greater control is available with the addition of a third point. Choose a starting point; drag to the left. The direction handles are being created. Position your pointer underneath the first point and drag to the right. So far, you are creating a U curve, as described above. Move the pointer underneath the second point and drag left once again. You are now creating the equivalent to two U curves in different directions.

This is the S shaped curve. Ctrl-click away from the path to stop drawing. Step 7 M curves The M curve is a little trickier because it involves a new tool: the Convert Point tool. The convert point tool is found under the pen tool in the tool box as shown in step 3. 1 From your starting point, drag upwards. You are creating the direction handle.

Move to the right and parallel, drag downward. You are creating an inverted U curve right now. Now the tricky part: Hold the Alt (Option) Key and drag upward. You are not drawing a curve right now; you are changing the direction handle for the next curve. The way the pen tool works is this.

First you define a direction with a direction handle (The initial drag of the mouse). The next click actually draws the curve based on the direction of the first drag and the second. If you want a sharp curve (called a cusp), you need to first change the direction of the handle without affecting the previously drawn curve. The Convert point tool, is such the tool for this task. The Alt (Option) Key is a quick way to temporarily choose the Convert Point tool. • Position your pointer to the right of the second point and drag down You’ve just made an M curve.

• Ctrl-click ( c-click) away from the path to stop drawing. Tip: While holding down the Ctrl (c) key on your keyboard, you can drag any point to a new position. Step 8 Closed paths A closed path. X marks the start/end point.

To help in creating your curves, you may want to show the grid under the View>Show menu. The paths described so far are open paths—that is, they’re not fully enclosed shapes. They’re just lines, and therefore you can’t use them to select areas of your image, or fill them up with solid colors (Unless you are using the Shape Layer method of drawing.) A closed path, on the other hand, can be filled with color, texture or patterns.

It can be turned into a selection to use on an image. Perhaps you want to apply an adjustment or a filter to an isolated part of your image. You will need a closed path for that. In celebration of your new love of curves, here’s how to create a closed path. Repeat the steps for the M curve.

Follow the directions in the previous example to get to the point of an M shaped curve. Don’t deselect yet. Click to add a point beneath the other three points. In the middle, the shape of the heart begins forming.

Finally, point to the first point you created, without clicking. A small circle appears by the pointer. It tells you that your mouse is hovering over the initial starting point. Click on the circle to close the path and form a closed loop. 4 Click the point to close the path and complete your heart. The pen tool will automatically stop drawing on completion of a closed path.

You could now select the path from the Paths palette and convert it to a selection, export it to Illustrator or save it for later use. Tip: Try turning on the grid to assist in drawing paths:View->Show->Grid. EXTRA TIP The Pen tool offers two behavior-modification options in the Options bar: Auto Add/Delete. If this option is turned on, when you point to a path without clicking, you see a + sign, meaning that you can add a point here by clicking. If you point to an existing point, you see a – sign, meaning that if you click here, you will delete the existing point.

Rubberband option. If you turn on this option, then curves start to form as you move the cursor around the screen—a sort of real-time preview of the shape you’ll get when you plant the next click.

It’s a useful guide for creating paths. This is found under the Geometry option in the options bar. I hope this little run-through of the pen tool helps you. CS6 Superguide All the CS6 information and more is available as a PDF magazine called the CS6 Superguide. If you’re on our list, you will receive it free by email as soon as it’s available. Or click the image below. This free online game will help you build your Pen tool skills.

20 responses to “Drawing Paths with the Pen tool in Photoshop Tutorial”. Hi — I’m glad to have found this page — love using paths and will go back and try the Bezier game soon. But right now I’m perplexed because all of a sudden, when I start to make a path, a Shape Layer is automatically created, and the path is filled with whatever the foreground cover is. What happened? I just want to draw paths, NOT filled shapes; just want to save them as work paths, select them, and maybe make them clipping paths. I DON’T WANT a new layer or fill or anything fancy!

Where did the simplicity go? I’m on Creative Cloud — did Adobe just rip out the old Photoshop from my system? I’ve been working with some RAW images lately and wonder if some preference got bumped because of that? I DON’T WANT A SHAPE LAYER! Can someone advise how to go back to plain ole’ wunnerful paths?? Why is this bait and switch? Do you even know what that term means?

This is a free tutorial, Im not trying to sell you anything, so there is nothing to bait and switch. The title of the tutorial is drawing paths with the pen tool and that’s exactly what it teaches. If you want to draw a perspective grid, then search for that. I wouldn’t use the pen tool to do what you want, that not the right approach. So your bad search, doesn’t equate to my bad. Also I’m not responsible for the 10 books you have unless one of them is mine, which it isn’t because I haven’t written about that in my 19 books. Now if you would consider asking nicely, I might consider helping you.

Sorry to be harsh, but it’s insulting to come into someone else’s home demanding. I provide free tutorials and I don’t have advertising, so you aren’t doing anything for me by reading them. Your welcome. I’m trying to draw a new street on a map layer. However, when I use the pen tool in the path setting it does not create the path on a layer.

The path is just “out there”. Is there a better way to create straight lines and nice curves on a map so that I can match the new path with existing line widths on the map layer? The map layer is a flattened pdf image. At this point, the path will not print to the plotter. Any advice on how to best do this would be much appreciated!

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