I am familiar with the pen tools in other designing softwares. I can not seem to figure out how to go from a big curve to a straight line. In other softwares, you would end your line (esc) and then click on the end point to head in another direction. When I do this, it just loads the last bezier curve leftovers back in. I do not want to have that happen. What am I doing wrong here?
This is intended to offer a quick overview,
Yeah i have watched that time and time again. It does not show my issue
Maybe grab and share a quick video of what is happening on your end, so we can ‘see’ what you are observing. 
Host the video somewhere, like YouTube, and make sure to make it public, then post the link here and folks can have a look.
Here is the requested video
To get a straight line, don’t hold down the mouse button when starting the line. Simply click once and let go, then move to where you want the line to end, then click once again.
Thank you but that is not the problem. I make a biezer curve and then i need to go to a different direction but due to the curve made, it wont let me. I have to zoom way in and grab on to the line as close to the end of it as possible to go in a different direction
What version of LightBurn are you using? Some of the behavior around how this works has changed in recent versions.
To confirm your steps:
- Click and hold to start a curve
- Click again to end the first curve and releasing immediately
- Move to end of second line
- Click again to end second line
Is this what you’re doing?
ok so I dont just let go of the click-hold-drag when the curve is where it needs to be, I have to click, hold, and drag then let go and then click down before moving the mouse any more? That then puts a new point where ever my cursor is. I will try to make myself a clear as possible.
I click to start the line, i move my cursor to a different position, I click, hold, and drag to make that segment the curve it needs to be. When it is where it needs to be, my cursor is far away from the line in order to make the curve. If I release and click there, it will put a point far from where I want it. If i just let go, the curve is how I wanted, however, I can not make a sharp turn from there. I have to stop that line and click as close to the end of that line as possible and head in the direction I need. I am very used to Adobe pen tools and this does not work the same way.
In what you are showing me, you stated step 1 is to click and hold. Why? At that point, all you have is a dot. There is no line until you click the second location and then drag to make the curve
Can you please try is the way I’ve described and see if it works? I want to confirm at least this is not a bug or version difference.
It does as you show but I do not believe it will work as needed. I was tracing an image for cutting. The trace image option was not giving me the option i needed. I guess I should have stuck with Illustrator where it makes sense to me lol
It should allow you to do the trace but may require you to learn the specifics of the tool. It may be easier to connect inflection points with straight line and then add the curves after the fact using the Edit Nodes tool.
I appreciate the help. I think I am better off just using Illustrator and importing the svg files
That should be the easiest solution.
I think I got what you are talking about. What you should try to do is not clicking the end point of the desired shape, but the in the middle. You need to create multiple points along your desired curve shape. Then you wouldn’t shoot over the end, as you have to do now. I don’t know if I could make myself clear 
Though, still it will be easier in Illustrator or Inkscape to trace the image.
For dedicated design work Lightburn is not #1 choice. The biggest reason I chose it though. Works great for those of us that want to burn things vs complicated designs on intimidating software.
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