Closing a Path in Photoshop

To close the path, return to your first anchor point and click. You see a small circle next to your pen cursor, indicating that you will close the path when you click. Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of a work path. Don’t worry if the path isn’t perfect; you find out how to edit paths in an upcoming section. If your path is perfect and you want to save it now, skip ahead to the section, “Working with the Paths Palette.”

If your path is incomplete and you need to continue drawing it, either click or drag on the endpoint with the Pen tool. You will see the appearance of a slash mark or small square next to the pen cursor.