Tools of Clipping Path

Path/ Anchor Points/ Handle

Pen Tool in Photoshop

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Clipping Path is one of the most sophisticated photo editing works in Photoshop. To do the job done there are many tools in Photoshop such as lasso tool, magnetic lasso tool, quick selection tool, magic wand tool, polygonal lasso tool, pen tool etc. Most of these are used to quick work which gives a terrible and imperfect result. Such an imperfect clipping path is harmful for any businesses. However, to perform perfectly, working with hand manually is a must and to do so pen tool is the best one which is the king in the realm of image clipping path business. In the brief history of pen tool, it is created by a French engineer Paul Bezier who worked in the Renault Car Company. That’s why it has been often called Bezier Tool or Bezier Pen.Before proceeding further, we should know what the path is. A path which is also called outline is, in fact, a line that goes from one anchor point to another point. No matter if the line is curved, straight or crooked but it only happens between two points. So, to create path one needs to have two points minimum. The path is so important that often pen tool is called path tool. Most often we are discussing about anchor point. Then what is an anchor point? It is basically a starting and an ending point of a line. In a path creation there may have many anchor points. Again in drawing a curved line, we have to direct a line by a handle which is available at every anchor point. To curve a line, just click and hold the cursor on an anchor point and a straight line will be visible which is handle.To get the Pen Tool, let’s take a look at the tool palette on the left side of the screen. It is a pen shaped tool and located just under the Blur tool, in the left of Type tool and on the Path Selection tool. Now you may wonder why the pen tool is not on the upper side of the palate with other elegant tools, actually those are located based on the pixel rather than the path.