: Trace an image using Photoshop without the pen tool I drew an image of a centipede and scanned it to my computer. My objective is to trace the image like how this guy in the video is doing

@Cody3331749

He paints In illustrator. You see, how illustrator fixes all the strokes to a consistent selected brush form just after the stroke is drawn. Then the exessive too long stroke tails are timmed off and some occasional paths are edited for the wanted form.

Everyhing until this but after the creation of the original image is quite mechanical. The hard part is the coloring - choosing the judicious colors, gradients and glows. That simply does not succeed without the proper visio of the wanted result - just like the creation of the original is impossible without the visio.

The tracing is possible in Photoshop, but why? Photoshop is not a tool for vector graphics. You can draw paths nearly as easily with the "Freeform Pen" but to get the colors you should still return to bitmap and that you already have.

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@Alves566

Can see in the video he has the Brush tool selected. He's just using the Brush tool on a new layer.

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