I think I might have to find out what is involved in the term: ""stroke" your path with the paintbrush" because unfortunately I do not have "Puppet Warp" in this version (CS4 Extended) of PhotoShop.

Normally I have Edit/Transform/Warp, but on a line the normal number of control points (which in my opinion are already too few) are further reduced to just 2 (pairs).

As I posted earlier, (previous pic) this shows the type of transform available for a line - which is "Transform Path" - and as the pic shows, that only gives you 2 places on the line for transforming it, and what's worse is that when you try to move those points they break up to show that they are in 2 parts - one handle for each side of the line.

Giving you this mess:

Now even if I felt I could spend a few hours getting the second handle to within 1 pixel of the first handle - to create the first part of the curve (bending downwards) (I've tried everything I could think of, shift, cntl, alt plus combinations of those, to move both handles at the same time, but I can't get it to select more than just a single handle at a time) - with only 1 pair of handles left to control this line - I could only manage the second part of the curve - up to the centre of the pattern.

So I think I need to understand about this path stroking you briefly mentioned Lucie.

I apologise Archdruid, it seems all your interesting efforts will be wasted, because I don't have this puppet warp you're talking about.  Shame, that was a very helpful and highly detailed looking list of instructions - just the kind I like (cos I can usually follow those ones with pics).

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