Circles and rectangles and triangles are cool.
But what if you want to create a more custom shape.
Well luckily we have a bunch of tools that give us that option.
So if you go to this tool it might look like this convert point tool for you but if you click on it
you have a few different options you have a pen tool a free form pen tool and a curvature tool and plus
a couple of other ones that will help us with these tools.
Let me just quickly show you what you can do with these.
So we're going to turn our fill To Blue.
Our stroke is still black.
Now with the pen tool you can do is click click click click.
And now we have created a closed shape and that's typically what you'll want to do with when creating
a shape is close it create a closed shape.
So this is a quick custom triangle.
Let me delete that.
Let me show you what else you can do by just clicking once you create a sharp corner.
But if you click and drag it creates a rounded corner.
Now it can close that shape.
Now what you can do with the pen tool is if you hover over these points these anchor points that you've
created if you click on it it looks or them if you see the mouse it looks like a minus point.
If you click on it it's going to subtract that one subtract that one.
So that's how you can quickly get rid of them or you can add more back.
Now say you add these two but you want to move it around the easiest way to do that is just to hold
the command key down or control if you're on a P.C..
And now you can move this around.
So it kind of changes your your selection tool or your pen tool to a direct selection tool where you
can actually move these anchor points around you can actually select multiple anchor points.
So I'm holding the command button down and then holding shift as well to select these two points and
then just with the command button down I held down I can now move these points and move them around
now you'll notice that if I click on one of these points that is a curve you see these little handles
that are protruding from it.
This helps us create or adjust the curve so you can extend it.
You can rotate it.
So see if I extend and rotate that creates a pretty incredible shape right there.
You also have these specific add Anchor Point or delete anchor point tools if for some reason you just
want to have a tool that does those things specifically.
You also have this convert anchor point tool which allows you to click and drag on a sharp edged corner
and turn it into a curved anchor point.
Cool huh.
And with this tool you can also do the reverse.
So let's go back to our pen tool.
So that's the pen tool.
So you can imagine creating some cool sort of wave of fact or waves.
So
and then you'd have to go in here and adjust the
angle of these ropes
so holding down the option key actually makes sure your mouse the convert ink anchor point tool.
So if you're on here you don't have to go change it in this menu you can just hold the option key and
that's going to change that into a sharp or a curved edge.
So just playing around here really quick trying to get some cool waves.
All right.
So you'd see this you'd have to mess round this a little a little bit more to get this to look like
actually waves.
But anyways I'm going to show you another tool that's going to make this even easier.
So there is art.
Our waves are weird waves.
It looks like bunny ears kind of to the next tool I want to show you is the free form pen tool.
So this allows you to literally just draw and it will create a shape for you.
It will add anchor points wherever it thinks it you want anchor points.
And so that's a quick way to actually custom draw something.
This would probably come out a lot better if you had a stylus and not using a mouse and then the last
tool I want to show you is the curvature pen tool and this is my favorite custom tool to use and it
comes from Adobe Illustrator.
Now what it does is it kind of intelligently creates curves for you depending on where you put your
anchor points so you can actually create some pretty custom shapes and you can see here that depending
on where I put the points it will actually create a pretty good wave or custom shape for us.
And it's just better than what I could do freehand or even with the pen tool.
Now a couple of things to note if you're just clicking once it's going to automatically create a curve.
But if you click twice or double click that point becomes a sharp edged point.
OK.
So that way let's go undo that.
And then you could also double click points after the fact to make them sharp or curved.
So this way you can actually create a pretty dang good wave.
So let's actually start from scratch and I'll show you.
So if we know this point's going to be sharp edge then we're going to put a point at sort of the apex
of the curve and then this is going to be the tip of the wave.
So we double click to make that a sharp edge.
Again we put it sort of at the inside apex.
I don't know if that's the actual correct term for it again curve curve curve apex or not the apex but
the point of the wave and double click their
and that ones double click double click double click.
So again this was super super quick but out of the three of them I would say that that bottom one we
have with the curvature tool was a lot easier to use and was way better at creating waves.
You know we can now delete these top ones because those ones kind of sucked and we can now duplicate
these ones and create sort of a cool graphic with these waves going on let's put the biggest one in
the background this one over here
and maybe even if we take the stroke off that might look kind of cool if we take the stroke off let's
take all of these to take off our stroke we could change the color of some of these.
Just make them subtly different shades of blue
so that it separates them
now are starting to get kind of a really cool wave graphic.
Maybe this goes at the bottom of our frame and at the top of the frame you know you add your tax your
graphics or whatever but those are a few different options for creating custom shapes and really that's
the best way to learn is just to to practice just click around literally just take a tool click around
see what happens hold the option buttons down hold the command buttons down see what's different and
and play around with it.
Awesome.
Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in the next lesson.