How to make curves with an image editing software?

[hitmann]

I'm currently using Fireworks and having trouble making images that have curves, like this one (dark blue one):

How do you make curves like this?

 

[RandomTom]

Is there a tool called the 'pen tool'? not a brush but a vector producing tool, this is the equivalent in photoshop where you select points and draw a vectorised image.

 

[WotDa]

Is there a tool called the 'pen tool'? not a brush but a vector producing tool, this is the equivalent in Photoshop where you select points and draw a vectorised image.

My suggestion too. Flash has it, so fireworks should.

On a side note, the pen tool is the devil's creation, whatever I try to do with it it doesn't want to work how I want. :/

 

[Moredhel]

Yeah, I'd love to be able to use it properly, but whatever I try and draw with it looks nothing like how I pictured it in my mind.

 

[Messiah Khan]

The Adobe Illustrator toolset is far better than the pen tool in Photoshop for creating curves etc. But then it probably should be, considering creating vectors is its job.

 

[Chaos]

My suggestion too. Flash has it, so fireworks should.

On a side note, the pen tool is the devil's creation, whatever I try to do with it it doesn't want to work how I want. :/

Its tricky at first just takes some practice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDrtyNmp3A4

 

[WotDa]

Its tricky at first just takes some practice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDrtyNmp3A4

There's a Pixel Perfect episode on it too, but I didn't seem to master it after that, however, this video seems most helpful as it told me why I couldn't go more than 90 degrees. Muchas gracias.

 

[Moredhel]

Its tricky at first just takes some practice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDrtyNmp3A4

Thanks for that, it suddenly makes a lot more sense with that single handle curve.

 

[hitmann]

Nice. Thanks a lot for the replies. They worked great!

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Pen tool is also known as the bevel in GIMP.