This video demonstrates how the Pen tool allows you to create vector-based masks, which work especially well for curved subjects.

Learn how to use Adobe Fireworks to create icons and sprite sheets and extract CSS properties. Tools and techniques we'll explore include the Pen tool, composite paths, the Path panel, and CSS Properties.Dave Hogue, vice president of experience design at Fluid, will explain:• How to use vector tools in Fireworks to create icons for websites or mobile apps• How to create a CSS sprite sheet of the icons and design an icon toolbar• How to extract the CSS properties of the toolbar so that it can be built in Adobe Dreamweaver or Adobe Edge Code and Brackets

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne reveals her Lightroom to Photoshop workflow used to create the still life “Cyclical”.

In this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast Terry White shows how to use the Pen Tool to create Art, Frames and to trace images in Photoshop CS6. If you've never used the Pen Tool before, this is your video!

In this episode of Ask the Adobe Ones, Kush explains how he created the "Street Party Postcard" using Adobe Photoshop Touch on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1.

The Pen and Pencil tools are very useful but require a little practice to get comfortable with. In this video you'll get a chance to play around with these tools, using the Pen tool to create clouds and the Pencil tool to create hills.

The Pen tool can be found in many Adobe applications and they way it works can sometimes be a little different. Colin Smith will take you through the similarities and differences with the Pen tool in Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and After Effects. Colin also talks about AICB, what it means and why you should use it.

Artist and Creative Director, Brian Yap, pushes the boundaries by being among the first to implement Touch app technology to design in a new way. Yap is able to achieve his pen and ink inspired look uncompromised with Adobe Ideas and saves the several steps of sketching, scanning and inking. Adobe Ideas has made his iPad his newest design tool. Although he designs in a cutting edge digital way with the iPad, the work that he creates can be printed in a very traditional method. He enjoys the freedom of working away from his desktop and he sees this as just the beginning of the changes to the way artists work. Check out Brian's Behance page: behance.net/brianyap

See how illustrator and animator Sanjay Patel uses images to craft compelling stories. From over 14 years of work at Pixar to his visually rich illustrations of the Hindu mythology of Ramayana, Patel will share his artistic methods, including how he goes from paper, pen, and pencil to highly detailed work in Adobe Illustrator.

Stephanie von Dressler of Ogilvy & Mather talks about taking visual notes of SXSW Interactive sessions, and how she is now using tablets to digitally sketch in addition to pen and paper.