FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Mar 23, 2012 · 22 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Fri, 23 March 2012 at 7:42 PM
Quote - Ermm... First, what version of Photoshop do you have?.. it will make a difference in what I could tell you. second.. the Pen tool is for drawing paths.. not for lines.. those have many uses, you would use the pencil tool, to be found in same place as brush and so-on... also, in the shape, for straight lines. you CAN use several options.. depending on what you want to accomplish.. filters can help.. or even edit>transform, to MAKE a line "wandre.
Sorry, I should have said - it's CS4 extended.
"wandre"? sounds French. If you mean Transform/warp, I don't think that's acurate enough, I don't think it would make an easily controlable line in the right sort of curve - not enough crossing points to control with just 16 controlable points - it's not enough. PLUS could you then apply shadow to that line afterwards?
Yeah for straight lines the line tool is easy - I was using that to define the gaps between floorboards only yesterday. It's the curve that I find hard to manage.
I can't hold my pen steady enough to acurately draw a freehand curve, which is why I hoped the pen tool (which can manage beautiful curves) could do it for me.
Quote - for straight lines.. this is pretty universal, go to shapes in your floating palette and select the straight line looking one.. then, in toolbar, set up the characteristics.. thickness, colour and so-on... the straight line will make just, exactly that.. left-click and hold the start and release at endpoint.. poof, straight line.. a note here... this will show up a a new layer in your layers palette... a good thing to do... when you have things as you want them, select evrything that IS goung to be on the layer.. for SURE .. go to layers palette, "turn OFF anything else.. make invisible.. then use "Merge visible".
Yeah, yeah, I do that 'merge visible' and 'stamp visible' stuff a lot - helps no end.
Quote - One other thing... you CAN selectively "drag" a part of your image by using one of the selection TOOLS on your tool palette.. the one that is always floating there.. .. you van use either of the two .. the top left and the one just below, for specific selections.. just click and hold for the options to appear.
Sorry? I didn't quite understand that last bit.
Quote - I will check back.. it would really help if I knew what version you are using, though. Lou. If need's be, I will post a tutorial.. but that will take probably, a day to make.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)