Essential Skills for Designers - Mastering the Pen Tool

Master the Pen tool in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign with our 2-hour course featuring 17 video tutorials and essential design resources.

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Brief Summary

This course teaches you all about the Pen tool, a must-know for designers! In just 2 hours, you'll tackle 17 videos, quizzes, and hands-on exercises to become a Pen tool pro across the top design apps.

Key Points

  • Master the Pen tool in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
  • Complete the course in only 2 hours.
  • Includes 17 instructional videos and quizzes.
  • Access to exercise files and additional resources.
  • Receive a certificate of completion.

Learning Outcomes

  • You will confidently use the Pen tool for various design projects.
  • Understand how to create paths and custom shapes.
  • Revise and reinforce skills with quizzes after each section.
  • Access useful resources for ongoing learning.
  • Receive a certificate to showcase your new skills!

About This Course

Learn everything you need to know about the tool that every Designer has to master!

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.

  • Mastering the Pen Tool

  • Become familiar with the most important tool in Vector drawing

  • Learn to work with Paths

Instructor

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Martin Perhiniak

Martin is a graphic designer and an Adobe Certified Instructor. He was a presenter at Adobe MAX the ultimate creative in 2018 and was recently voted one of the top 10 Adobe instructors in the world. Over 100,000 students are studying from his online courses from over 200 countries. As a designer and illustrator he worked for companies like Pixar,...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Bryan Nuytens
Bryan N.
4.0
2 years ago

goeie uitleg op een aangenaam tempo. Je kan makkelijk meevolgen.

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John B.
5.0
2 years ago

I have taken some of Martin's other courses and this one is as good. He explains everything thoroughly and in detail.

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ui-avatar of T brown
T B.
5.0
2 years ago

This is a good course so far. The rubber band option is a very good option to use and it makes tracing with the pen tool a lot easier!

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ui-avatar of Éverton Santos
Éverton S.
5.0
2 years ago

Muito bom

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ui-avatar of Kevin Shoppas
Kevin S.
1.0
3 years ago

Cannot download resource files keeps stating it is corrupted

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ui-avatar of Nickolas Aleksandar Nikolic
Nickolas A. N.
5.0
3 years ago

very knowledgeable instructor.

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ui-avatar of Julius Modesto
Julius M.
5.0
3 years ago

I got my eyes opened with the techniques and uses of the tool. It was really a great experience and I have fun playing with the exercises. Will definitely keep on practicing using Pen tool. Martin is undeniably a great mentor.

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ui-avatar of Junior Jimmy Jean Baptiste Kernisant
Junior J. J. B. K.
5.0
3 years ago

tenía una fustración con la herramienta "pluma" pero este curso me ha enseñado paso a paso cómo se utiliza... va a aser que no soy tan negado :)

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ui-avatar of Shane Apruzzese
Shane A.
5.0
3 years ago

I enjoy all the courses from this instructor, he explains things in a clear easy to understand way.

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ui-avatar of Dalia Kelly
Dalia K.
4.0
3 years ago

Unable to download my practice sheets

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