recently I was designing a site and wanted to use a curve as the divider between the side navigation bar and the body of the site. the curve would start at the top of the page and swoop down center left side to end at the bottom. It would have a small S curve to it or a coca-cola swoosh effect. I knew I wanted to use the pen tool but not being very tested with it I wasn't really sure how to go about it. Being undecided on to use the path or the shape tool I choose the shape. I wasn't able to get the outer curvature to look just like I wanted it to with one shape however. I had to make three layers, make a shape-fraternize, make another-fraternize, and so on. I ended up with the right outside line when I merged the three layers together and then proceeded to do the same for the other inside line. After about an hour and a half and many cut and pasting bla bla bla later I got the curve I needed. the problem was that it looked rough. it wasn't the clean cut edge I wanted for the site so I had to do the same thing again using the pen path tool to work on sections of the curve. I would match the curve, zoom in as close as I could and then using the erase and the brush tools and the two dif colors I cleaned up the edge. all and all the simple little curve I wanted took about 4 hours. My question and statement are this. There has got to be an easier way. Isn't there?