Drawing a curved line using the pen tool, dragging the text cursor over the line but will only give me a small area to write in, in-between a circle and a circle with a cross in?

If you change your tool to the "Direct Selection Tool" (A) then you should be able to adjust the area for you to type in...

Similar Messages

RE: New process to write off balances between ($10.00) and $10.00 with reas

Hi All,
Is there anyone who knows if it is possible in SAP to automatically write off a small balance between ($10.00) and $10.00 with a reason code of ZP.
Thanks
SHK

Hi
See Note 1150062 - FS-PP: Customizing settings for Clearing of Trivial Amounts.
I hope this helps you
Regards
Eduardo

ICloud turned on system, but will only give me the welcome screen

Https://www.icloud.com will default to the /ipad_welcome URL.

Thanks. I am reading about accessing iCloud under my user name using a browser in a MacFormat magazine. It claims I can, but I tend to think you are correct. It works on the MacBook Pro, but not on any of my iPhones or iPads.

Is it possible to change the path color using the pen tool?

I know we were able to in the past but can we now>

Here is a quick step by step on how to draw a path and stroke it with color:
Choose the pen tool to draw a path.
Draw your path. Below, you can see the path I drew with the pen tool.
You then want to select the color of the path, which is the "set foreground color" block. (you can see it above in step 1, a few tools below the pen tool). Below you can see the color I selected, then click OK.
Then select the Direct Selection Tool, you can see it circled in red below.
Then right-click the path you drew with the direct selection tool. Select "stroke path".
The stroke path dialog is brought up, you can select the tool form. I selected the pencil for this example.
Below you can see the path stroked with the color and the pencil tool I selected.
Other helpful related links:
if you have any questions, feel free to post back.
enjoy,
janelle

Is there a hotkey to break the handles of points while you're using the pen tool?

When you use the pen tool, it smooths the points as you add them, but sometimes I don't want that, So far, the only way I've been able to combat this is by using the pen tool, pressing V to switch to the selection tool, clicking elsewhere to deselect the path, then pressing P to use the pen tool again, and then selecting the end point again.
This process is becoming very annoying over the course of long projects, and I'm hoping that someone will be able to solve it for my.
(I specifically want the hotkey for Mac, but it would be good if you could give the PC hotkey too for other people looking at this.)

Use the Alt-key to switch to the anchor-point-conversion tool temporarily. Use the command key to switch to the last used selection tool temporarily

Using the Pen Tool As a Guide?

Is there a way to use the Freedom Pen Tool as a guide? I used the 'Auto Blend Layers' and there a few misalignments. So I am using the Freedom Pen Tool to outline where the blend was made. After I correct the misalignments, I want to get rid of the Pen Tool outline. I tried putting the pen tool on its own layer but when I deleted the layer, the pen tool marking was still there. Is there any way to get rid of the pen marking after fixing the misalignments?
Thanks,
Lou

loudiamond wrote:
Is there any way to get rid of the pen marking after fixing the misalignments?
Delete it from the Paths panel.

Why is Illustrator filling the areas between the paths created by the pen tool?

First, I am very much a beginner with Illustrator (but have used other vector drawing programs) and always try to find the answer in the 531-page manual before bothering the community. So my apologies for what is probably a beginner's mistake.
I am marking up a drawing I imported from a raster file and and have ran Image Trace. I am trying to draw 2 perpendicular lines with the pen tool. However, when I complete the second line, it immediately files the space between the two lines with a black triangle. When I draw a square, same result - instead of a square formed by 4 lines with blank space in the middle, it fills the space with black.
Why would it do this? Is there some setting that I need to turn off? In the past, a pen line just drew a path and didn't create fills.
I am using Illustrator CC on Windows 8.1 (Surface Pro 2) if that's relevant to anything.
Thanks in advance!

Hi Buzz,
If i'm understanding correctly it sounds as though you have your colour applied to the fill instead of the stroke. All you have to do whilst having your shape selected or before you draw it is hit the arrow to the top right of that panel for it to switch to the stroke. Then click the white box with the red line through it for no fill in the areas you want no colour.
I hope that helps!

How do you change the color of the path the pen tool makes?

There must be some way to change the color of the path the pen tool makes from that grey color to something that will contrast with the image underneath. I found one thread about this from 2010 or so and the answer led to a dead link. This seems like it would be a very helpful feature that would be easy to implement. Someone please tell me in 2014, after a zillion version of photoshop have come out in the past 30 or so years, how do we do this? Thank in advance.

Why? When you zoom in too close sometimes it become too pixelated to see what's going on and the point on the pen become to close to each other. Why can't you change the path to a color so that it doesn't blend into the image you're trying to trace? Why is the unchangeable color one of the most likely colors to become invisible on most images? So frustrating!

How Do I make curved lines with the pen tool in after effects CS6

Hello, so I have been following this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKzB-CFT0MI on how to make 2d intros in after effects and at the 2:20 mark he shows how he uses the pen tool to make curved lines around the elipse. I tried to do the samething myself, and couldent make the curved lines. I looked it up online and there were tutorials on how to make curved lines but they did not work the same way, and I could not make curves like he did.So if any of you know how to do curved lines like in the video, your help will be appreciated.
Thanks !

This is basic stuff and it's basically the same way Illustrator or Photoshop works with bezier paths. You'll find a lot of helpful information if you just type masking or mask in the Search After Effects Help field at the top right corner of the app.
Adobe - Search: masking
Directly from the Help Files: After Effects Help | Creating shapes and masks
Mylenium.. sorry you thought it was an awful tutorial. I made it in under a minute just to show this member the very basic task of creating a mask with the pen tool and animating the shape. I'll try and up the quality of my quick replies to simple operations.

Using the Pen tool to create a shape with equal sides?

I am new to working with the Pen tool and started drawing a rounded button (I know I can easily do this with the rounded rectangle, I'm just practicing to learn the Pen), I draw the top horizontal line and start the curve going down the right side. How do I now continue drawing the lower curve so that it matches the one I already drew and replicate this on the other side? Is there an easy way to do this? Is there also a way for me to just copy this path and reuse it somehow?
Thanks.

I think you'll find this tutorial useful.
http://is.gd/A90Q5t

How to create a wavy line with the Pen Tool?

Let me start by saying that I am a novice to Adobe CS4, including PS.
I am trying to follow this tutorial: http://www.rnel.net/tutorial/Photoshop/11541 but I can not even get the pen to draw wavvy line. I keep get a straight line. To say the least, I am only able to complete creating the file.
How do I create a wavvy line or lines using the Pen Tool?

Check out this page from the Help Files:
Draw curves with the Pen tool:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WS08E4D386-15E9-4dcd-91E6-DF4219CC6D24.html

Help with using the pen tool

I have a few different problems with the pen tool.
1. When using the pen tool I keep finding that the shape I'm doing is slightly overlapping where I've already gone with the pen tool.
If I try and go over that area again the path I've just drawn then jumps and ruins the shape I was creating.
How can I stop this from happening?
2. Also is there a limit to the amount of paths you can create and add text to? I created two paths and typed on them fine but when I added a third path it refused to type. The cursor didn't change to show I could type and if I did click on the path line and try to type jumped to my other path and typed there. All paths were on different layers and none were overlapping, but it is 3 circles inside each other that get smaller if this makes a difference.
How can I type on the third path?
3. When I have done a path and clicked stroke it is only a thin line. How can I make this line thicker?
Thanks.

Ok, the first example would be something like this. Pretending the lines go elsewhere, say I've drawn a path with the pen tool, gone round the bottom box and that then goes round the two lines going down. So if I go down the one on the left side it hits the previous path I did, but to go up the line on the right side I'd need to go across there. But if I make a point where the two lines meet to do this it then throws the line off elsewhere.
I did have snap vector tools on but it does that without it on.
The next one I was creating a car speedometer so it has lines on the outside, dots inside of that and then, where I've done the blue circle, would be the third path where I then write the numbers in. But I can never write on that third path.
And finally, the pen tool and I think it dd have Shape Dynamics set. I've changed a couple of things and it looks a bit better now so I think that should be ok. Thanks
I know I haven't shown the panels but I haven't got any for the first as it won't go right so I deleted what I was doing. And each thing I've done is on a different layer for the speedometer, all just paths created with the circle tool with the text on.

Drawing with the Pen tools

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-73a0a.h tml

Correction: same issue -- pen tool drawing shows up only on the digital image on the screen. Not when printed. Well sounded like a good theory.
Problem remains: how to get pen tool drawing, made on photographs, to print.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Drawing with the Pen tools o photographi
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 20:08:05 +0000
Curt, believe I found the answer:
Create a new blank page, the size of the photograph to be worked on. The blank page is what the pen tool responds to only.
Add the photographic image to the new blank page (same size).
Now you can use the pen tool over the photographic image. When finished drawing, flatten the image with drawing, and print.
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 21:00:54 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Drawing with the Pen tools
    Re: Drawing with the Pen tools
    created by Curt Y in Photoshop General Discussion - View the full discussion
Perhaps you are talking about stroking the line?
Set the color and size with brush, then in Path window click on Stroke Path with Brush.
     Replies to this message go to everyone subscribed to this thread, not directly to the person who posted the message. To post a reply, either reply to this email or visit the message page: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4380667#4380667
     To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit the message page at http://forums.adobe.com/message/4380667#4380667. In the Actions box on the right, click the Stop Email Notifications link.
     Start a new discussion in Photoshop General Discussion by email or at Adobe Forums
For more information about maintaining your forum email notifications please go to http://forums.adobe.com/message/2936746#2936746.

Creating a bell-shapped (Gaussian) curve with the Pen Tool

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to create a bell-shaped (Gaussian) curve in Photoshop CS3, using the Pen Tool, however apparently I am not good enough with it... I can create a curve that resembles a simple parabola - like this one http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BhBX8ycVeL4/SIHhJYmDCgI/AAAAAAAAA-g/2Dc_Tf1Kz5c/s400/400px-Para bola.svg.png only upside-down; however I can't figure out how to further go from here in order to add the extra inflexions on the sides that make the parabola into a Gaussian curve, that would look something like this: http://naturalcureinsomnia.com/img/Bell-Curve.gif
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

Art,
Correct me if I'm wrong---I believe you want a schematic Gaussian curve rather than a mathematically precise one.
If so, set up two horizontal guide lines, one running through the desired apex and the other through the curve's baseline. Add three vertical guides, one through the apex and the other two equally spaced on the left and right sides of the guide through the apex.
Let point A be at the intersection of the left vertical with the baseline, point B be the apex, and point C be the intersection of the right vertical with the baseline.
With the pen tool at point A, drag horizontally to the right a fraction of the distance to the central guide. Release the mouse, move the pen tool to point B and drag horizontally to the right about the same distance or until the left half of the curve looks Gaussian. Release the mouse, place the pen tool at point C and drag horizontally rightward until the right half of the Gaussian curve matches the left.
To close the curve, release the mouse and click at a point on the baseline well beyond point C, connect from below with a path of any shape to a point on the baseline well to the left of point A, and then close to point A. Stroke the path, delete the path, and erase all but the Gaussian part.
Experiment with the ABC positions and the drag lengths until you get a decent curve. Should you want a precise curve it would be better to use one of the freeware curve programs out there. But if you want a bit of precision with the pen tool, that's possible by calculating one or two intermediate points between A and B and symmetrically between B and C and then dragging the pen so that curve comes reasonably close to passing through them.

My layers look messy when i use the pen tool they dont align with the layers below?

im new to illustrator, not sure if I worded it right, but I watched a tutorial, where the teacher was using the pen tool, he was drawing a bear, say if he drew another layer of shade on the bear he could quickly use the pen tool and even if he went out of the borders of the bear the pen tool would recognize this and stay with the bear layer. When I use the pen tool I have different layers but If I go out of the line of the object underneath it goes out it doesn't recognize that I want it to end there, so all my layers are mismatched and not clean
halp!

In the tutorial they were maybe drawing in "draw inside" mode.
See manual on this mode

Drawing a curved line using the pen tool, dragging the text cursor over the line but will only give me a small area to write in, in-between a circle and a circle with a cross in?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for