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Essential Skills for Designers Mastering the Pen Tool

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  • Mar 05, 2025
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Essential Skills for Designers – Mastering the Pen Tool, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.75, with 24 lectures, 4 quizzes, based on 224 reviews, and has 1490 subscribers.

You will learn about Mastering the Pen Tool Become familiar with the most important tool in Vector drawing Learn to work with Paths Gain an invaluable skill that can be used in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign Be faster and more efficient working on design projects This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner to Professional Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign users or Freelance Designers or Design Interns or Design Students or Creative Professionals or Anyone preparing for the InDesign Adobe Certified Expert exam It is particularly useful for Beginner to Professional Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign users or Freelance Designers or Design Interns or Design Students or Creative Professionals or Anyone preparing for the InDesign Adobe Certified Expert exam.

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Summary

Title: Essential Skills for Designers – Mastering the Pen Tool

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.75

Number of Lectures: 24

Number of Quizzes: 4

Number of Published Lectures: 24

Number of Published Quizzes: 4

Number of Curriculum Items: 28

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 28

Original Price: $34.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

  • Mastering the Pen Tool
  • Become familiar with the most important tool in Vector drawing
  • Learn to work with Paths
  • Gain an invaluable skill that can be used in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
  • Be faster and more efficient working on design projects
  • Who Should Attend

  • Beginner to Professional Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign users
  • Freelance Designers
  • Design Interns
  • Design Students
  • Creative Professionals
  • Anyone preparing for the InDesign Adobe Certified Expert exam
  • Target Audiences

  • Beginner to Professional Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign users
  • Freelance Designers
  • Design Interns
  • Design Students
  • Creative Professionals
  • Anyone preparing for the InDesign Adobe Certified Expert exam
  • About the course:

    Most of the tools of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are easy to learn and understand, but there is one major exception: the Pen tool. It is a very versatile vector drawing tool present in all three applications and can save you a lot of time and effort in many ways if you learn to use it properly. It can be used for drawing shapes and illustrations, creating custom frames for your layouts, making selections of your images, designing custom paths for your type, drawing artistic effects and so much more.

    In this course we will learn everything you need to know about the Pen tool. You can master it following many exercises and in less than 2 hours you can become a real Pen tool pro in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

    The course includes:

    1. 17 instructional video tutorials
    2. Quizzes about the techniques learnt in each section
    3. Exercise files used in the course to help follow along and practice
    4. Essential Skills for Designers & Career Guide PDF
    5. Design Terminology PDF
    6. Useful Keyboard Shortcuts PDF
    7. Collection of Useful websites for Designers PDF
    8. Certificate of completion

    How long will the course take to complete?

    This course will take?only 2 hours to complete, but it will take some time to put all the techniques into practice.

    How the course is structured?

    The course is structured into?17 videos, each explaining a technique for working with the Pen tool. It is recommended to watch the videos in order of the outline but you can also choose to watch them individually. After each section you can take Quizzes to revise the crucial techniques and definitions learnt on the way.

    Why take this course?

    Easy. If you want to get a job as a designer either being employed or freelancing, you have to know how to work with the Pen Tool ?This course will make you very confident about this essential skill for designers.?This course is for you if you are planning to take your design skills to the next level and want to become a Pro in no time.

    Course Curriculum

    Chapter 1: Useful Resources for Creative Professionals

    Lecture 1: Skills for Creative Professionals

    Lecture 2: Useful Design Terms

    Lecture 3: Useful Websites

    Lecture 4: Keyboard Shortcuts

    Chapter 2: Pen Tool Basics

    Lecture 1: Introduction

    Lecture 2: Exercise Files

    Lecture 3: What is the point?

    Lecture 4: Pen Tool Options

    Chapter 3: Drawing with the Pen Tool

    Lecture 1: Drawing straight lines

    Lecture 2: Drawing curves

    Lecture 3: Drawing complex shapes

    Lecture 4: Drawing symmetrical shapes

    Chapter 4: Working with Paths

    Lecture 1: Creating Custom Shapes and Symbols

    Lecture 2: Creating custom frames in InDesign

    Lecture 3: Selecting, Editing and Saving Paths

    Lecture 4: Combining Paths

    Lecture 5: Smooth Tool and Simplify Path

    Chapter 5: Pen Tool workflows

    Lecture 1: Making selections with Paths

    Lecture 2: Masking with Paths

    Lecture 3: Type on a Path

    Lecture 4: Stroke Paths

    Lecture 5: 3D shapes from Paths

    Chapter 6: Conclusion

    Lecture 1: Certificate

    Lecture 2: Whats next?

    Instructors

  • Essential Skills for Designers Mastering the Pen Tool  No.2
    Martin Perhiniak
    Yes Im a Designer
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  • 4 stars: 56 votes
  • 5 stars: 145 votes
  • Frequently Asked Questions

    How long do I have access to the course materials?

    You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

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