With over a decade as a writer and photographer behind him, James knows exactly which Photoshop and Lightroom tools and techniques matter most.
It might be one of the trickier tools on offer in Photoshop, but the Pen Tool rewards those who persevere by granting you control over your images like no other image-editing control. It works by letting you plot a series of anchor points. Each anchor point spouts control handles that let you determine the curvature of the line. At first it might seem complicated and unwieldy to use, but with less practice than you think, the controls become second nature.