Using pen tool to customize font...?!?!

When using the pen tool in illustrator for adding "shiny" bits to font...how do i round the ends of the lines, for example in this speed art vid (the white lines)...
Kieran Signature | SpeedArt | By Haunt - YouTube
Also im guessing he's also using the width tool to change the width of these lines?

Billy,
Round Cap (which goes well with Round Join) in the Stroke palette.

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      it has to go to pdf comment in it, It has to select the Drawing markups and then select pen tool automatically.
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Actaully this code is printing a flower using ink tool. can to modify this
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draw my own sign or image etc.
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How to add a 'stoke path' using 'pen tool' on CS6 (mac)?

I'm a beginner at photoshop and I'm only 14 years old. I need to know this for my GCSE project.
I'm trying to create something similar to this:
Using pen tool and stroke path, but when i use the pen tool I'm not sure how to add the stroke path like that.
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In addition to conroys advice here is a video tutorial that might help you as well:
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Windows 8? Well known Windows bug that hasn't been fixed yet.
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figure made up of curves using pen tool and line segments using pen
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SANJISH wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just started using Fireworks and am unable to
close a figure
> made up of curves using pen tool and line segments using
pen / line tools. How
> do I plot points on any given shape and close it so that
i can colour the shape
> . Right now I am not able to give colour to the shapes I
have created.
>
> Please help
>
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>
> Sanjish
>
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I have noticed while using pen tool that I have to wait before the small square appears.

I have noticed while using pen tool that I have to wait before the small square appears. Tenth of a second, but this is disturbing on a daily basis. Is there any solution?

It seems that in your version of InDesign, the image preview is grayed out while you are editing the picture frame with the pen tool. Not the case with my version of CS5 for macintosh.
But I think this is a bad way to work. If you want the path only to affect text wrap, then edit the text wrap path. This is more versatile than editing the frame because you can have text appear over part of the image visible below text. This of a bird in flight in a light sky. The text wrap can surround the bird so text can appear in the sky. Your method does not permit this.
If you are editing the frame’s path because you also want to crop the image, then you’d be better off doing that in Photoshop by adding either a clipping path in the Paths panel or a mask in the Layers panel. If it’s an Illustrator file then add a clipping mask.
I find InDesign’s pen tool and general path editing to be significantly inferior to Illustrator’s. If I need to have an editable path in InDesign that I would draw much more easily in Illustrator, then I do that and copy the path back. It comes in as a simple unassigned frame, which I can then convert to a picture frame or a text frame and copy/paste the contents into the new frame. That may suit you if the above suggestions are inappropriate.

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Use the path selection tool to select the path. Then copy it: ctrl/cmd-C. Use the pen or shape tool to create a SHAPE layer. just make a small box or something to create the layer. Then press ctrl/cmd-V to paste your path into that shape layer. Select the small shape you made to create the layer and delete. it.

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Steve,
I am trying to draw a nice curvy BOW using the pen tool.How can i draw a nice curvy stroke using pen tool with thickness control.
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You may draw the spine of the bow with the Pen Tool and apply a custom made Artbrush to it; the Artbrush should be a fill no stroke shape reflecting the relative thickness along the relative length (the thickness (height) of the brushed path will be the thickness of the brushed stroke at 1pt Stroke Weight, and the length of the shape is arbitrary, so it can be set to 8, 10, 100, or whatever, because the brush strtches to the length of the path).
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Suze,
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Thank you!

Add a couple more keyframes and adjust them so the line is straighter. You can drag the keyframes along the audio line & move them up & down to adjust the shape of the curve.
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I'm encountering a persistent problem with FCP unexpectedly quitting on both version 4.5HD and version 5. The problem occurs when I open a clip from the timeline in the viewer and access the motion tab to adjust the scale of a clip or the position of a clip with the pen tool. I can enter four nodes successfully with no problems, but if I then go back to the clip or open a new one, I can enter maybe three nodes maximum before they cease to register, then the beachball appears for half a second and FCP quits with the "unexpected" message.
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Hi John,
Thanks. I figured it out so there’s no need.
Aloha,
Rick Doyle
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