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Pen Tutorial Practice Templates

Practice Practice Practice
This page contains all the practice templates for drawing with the pen. Here are tutorials for Deneba Canvas™, Adobe® Illustrator®, Adobe Photoshop®, Macromedia® FreeHand® and CorelDRAW®. These tutorials are setup for both Macintosh® and Windows® platforms.

You might ask, "What are Photoshop tutorials doing here in the vector application section?" Using the pen in Adobe Photoshop is virtually the same as using the pen in Adobe Illustrator. Learning pen skills really belongs here with the other vector applications. I have linked the Photoshop section of the web site to these pages for learning the pen.

These tutorials are short and fun. Make sure to download the setup sheet for the application you are using. The setup is very straightforward. Except for Photoshop (which rasterizes the PDF file...turns it into a bitmap), you simply load the tutorial PDF file into the drawing application, then lock the layer containing the template, then add a new layer and draw on that new layer. The reason you keep the template on a locked layer is because the template contains vector objects which can get selected and altered otherwise. Don't worry, it's really simple. All the instructions are in the setup sheets.

The tutorials are setup in sequence starting with the easiest ones. Each one gives you a different skill. By the time you get to the last one you will see how it all comes together. They have been purposely setup to take advantage of keyboard shortcuts so you don't have to return to the tool palette once the pen tool has been selected.

The whole point is to train you to take advantage of the keyboard shortcuts so you will draw faster, smoother and more fluidly.

Download Instructions:
Instructions:

1. First download and install the free Adobe Acrobat® Reader

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3. To download in Windows®: Place mouse pointer on the link, then right click the mouse.

For Internet Explorer®: "Save Target As..."
For Netscape®: "Save Link as..."
then save it to disk

4. To download in Mac®: Hold the mouse button down for a second or Control + Click and a pop up window will appear.

For Internet Explorer: "Download Link to Disk"
For Netscape: "Save this Link as..."
then save it to disk.
   
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Pen Tutorials For Macintosh® and Windows

  Canvas 5-7 Illustrator 7-9 Photoshop 5 FreeHand 8-9 CorelDRAW 8-9
Setup Sheet
setupcnv.pdf
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setupai.pdf
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setuppsd.pdf
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setupfh8.pdf
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18.50K
setupcdr.pdf
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41.70K
Tutorial 1
tem1cnv.pdf
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tem1ai.pdf
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tem1psd.pdf
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tem1fh8.pdf
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tem1cdr.pdf
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Tutorial 2
tem2cnv.pdf
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tem2ai.pdf
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tem2psd.pdf
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5.42K
tem2fh8.pdf
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5.35K
tem2cdr.pdf
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5.50K
Tutorial 3
tem3cnv.pdf
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tem3ai.pdf
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tem3psd.pdf
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6.20K
tem3fh8.pdf
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6.19K
tem3cdr.pdf
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6.73K
Tutorial 4
tem4cnv.pdf
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tem4ai.pdf
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10.10K
tem4psd.pdf
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6.80K
tem4fh8.pdf
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6.87K
tem4cdr.pdf
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4.33K
Tutorial 5
tem5cnv.pdf
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tem5ai.pdf
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tem5psd.pdf
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3.69K
tem5fh8.pdf
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3.73K
tem5cdr.pdf
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3.82K
Tutorial 6
tem6cnv.pdf
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tem6ai.pdf
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tem6psd.pdf
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tem6fh8.pdf
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32.00K
tem6cdr.pdf
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31.80K
Complete Set
Macintosh
temcnv.sit

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temai.sit

61.90K
tempsd.sit

56.00K
temfh8.sit

73.00K
temcdr.sit

92.00K
Complete Set
Windows
temcnv.zip

82.20K
temai.zip

60.60K
tempsd.zip

53.90K
temfh8.zip

70.70K
temcdr.zip

89.10K

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