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What is the easiest way to draw a curve in photoshop?

I've got to draw a really nice smooth wavy curve. I know you can use the pen tool and control points but is this the only way? As this tool needs a bit of practice I'm after just a quick way of doing it without too much fiddling.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    here is a step by step process...fast and easy!

    hope this helps.

    http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/10.0/hel...

  • 1 decade ago

    Hmm - without using the pen tool... well, you could make a straight line using the single row select tool and filling it, then you could use the warp tool to pull curves into it.

    Or you could make a circle selection, fill it, then shift the selection down a few pixels and hit delete, leaving just the top curve of the circle. Do this a few times on different layers making some up and some down, then drag the curves around using the move tool - position them with their ends overlapping so that they look like a continuous curve.

    That all seems pretty convoluted, I guess I'm just too used to using the pen tool. Hopefully it helps some, though. :)

  • 1 decade ago

    One could also create a basic line, and then enter the FILTER > Liquify tool to manually distort the line using the stroke of the mouse/pen tablet.

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