Pen tool giving you trouble? There’s a trick you see…
So you tried the pen tool and whenever you change directions it goes haywire on you and creates a stupid curve or loops around creating a circle and argggh, fuck it.
There’s a trick to the pen tool you see.
Whenever you change directions you want to drag out a handle by holding down the ALT key and dragging the point you set, this gives you a little handle.
Make sure you now point the handle you just dragged out in the direction of your next pen point. If you need to realign a point just hold down control.
If you forgot to drag out a handle just hold down alt and drag one out.
Also note that when you drag out a handle there’s two points, you can split them up so they become independant by dragging them while holding down ALT giving you even more presicion.
Voila, no more trouble with the pen tool.
