or command-Z on the Mac, and try drawing that section again.
Sometimes you just need to go the other direction or draw a smaller line.
Alright, now notice that the path outline is selected,
and so if I move my cursor away, I'm going to see a little asterisk next to the pencil.
00:01:19 But if I move my cursor near to the open path outline,
00:01:22 I see a little diagonal line,
00:01:24 which tells me that I'm going to extend
00:01:26 that selected path like so.
00:01:29 And that is a function of a couple of settings
00:01:31 in that pencil tool options dialogue box.
00:01:34 I'll go ahead and press the enter key,
00:01:36 or the return key on the mac,
00:01:37 to open the dialogue box on screen.
00:01:39 And notice this check box right there, Keep selected.
00:01:42 You most likely want to leave that on, because that way,
00:01:45 the last path outline you drew remains selected.
00:01:48 But you can turn it off, it is an option.
00:01:50 And then notice that you can Edit selected paths
00:01:53 as long as you drag within six screen pixels from them.
00:01:58 And again, you can turn that off
00:01:59 or adjust that distance as you like.
00:02:02 I'm just gonna go ahead and click OK
00:02:04 to dismiss the dialogue box.
00:02:06 Alright, now let's say I just want to
00:02:09 extend things a little farther up and over in this direction
00:02:13 to let's say right about there,
00:02:14 or I may just decide to draw a completely different section.
00:02:18 And you can see, even though the other path outline
00:02:21 is selected because I did not drag sufficiently close to it,
00:02:24 I'm seeing an asterisk next to my cursor.
00:02:27 At which point I'll go ahead and release
00:02:28 in order to create an independent, open path.
00:02:32 Let's say you want to connect two open paths together.
00:02:35 Well then, press and hold the control key,
00:02:37 or the command key on a Mac,
00:02:38 to get the last used arrow tool,
00:02:40 which in my case is the black arrow,
00:02:42 and then add the shift key and click on this path.
00:02:46 So in other words, I'm control-shift-clicking here on a PC,
00:02:49 that's a command-shift-click on a Mac,
00:02:51 and what that allows me to do
00:02:52 is select that other open path.
00:02:55 Then you just drag from its endpoint
00:02:57 to the other path's endpoint,
00:02:59 at which point you'll see
00:03:00 that slash next to the cursor again
00:03:02 and you'll join what were formerly two open paths into one.
00:03:06 And now I'll go ahead and finish things off
00:03:08 by dragging from this endpoint
00:03:10 and then finally releasing on the other endpoint
00:03:13 in order to close the path outline like so.
00:03:17 And that, friends, is how you extend and connect
00:03:20 open path outlines using the pen tool.