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Post by craz on May 18, 2008 17:41:27 GMT
Does anybody know how to create dashed lines in photoshop easily?
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Post by gray929 on May 18, 2008 19:28:07 GMT
Yeah, its ridiculous that PS doesn't offer dashed lines. I found this tutorial. If you need help with it, let me know. Dashed Lines That is the easiest way, not sure if it's the fastest but I don't know any other way.
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Post by c130 on May 20, 2008 23:29:08 GMT
You can also do it with the default brushes. Load up the Square brushes, then choose one with sides as long as you want each dash to be. Now click on the Brush tab at the top right corner of your screen, choose the Brush Tip Shape option from the menu at the left, and enter "15%" for roundness, and "135%" for spacing. If you like, adjust the spacing up and down to make the dashes closer and further apart, and if you want the dashes to be vertical, click on the arrow in the crosshair box and drag it around so it's pointing up. To use the brush, click where you want the line to begin and hold shift, then drag the brush along.
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Post by ¢brandon` on May 21, 2008 8:28:42 GMT
hmm. the thing about those techniques is you can only have straight lines. or if you curved it all the dashes point the same way. heres the easiest and right way to get dashed lines. grab the pen tool. draw out your line. can be curvy or whatever. stroke your path with a 1px brush. DONT DELETE YOUR PATH. now. create a layer mask. and go into your brush palette. have a 9px hard round brush with .. lets say. about 147% spacing. now. on the mask stroke your path again with this new brush. VOILA! sharpen the mask layer. then sharpen your layer. and itll be crisp lines! example. of course you can edit the spacing to your liking. good luck =]]
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Post by c130 on May 21, 2008 17:37:47 GMT
hmm. the thing about those techniques is you can only have straight lines. or if you curved it all the dashes point the same way. Lol no. Clearly you're not familiar with the brush palette. Here's how you make your dashes follow the brush direction. Your method may make the dashes look neater at high resolution Actually, scratch that, your method doesn't work above 3px or so, and fucks up majorly at overlapping sections - comparison example. To make your method work better, use a square brush instead of a round one for the second part, and set it to follow the brush direction so each dash is rectangular and even. ExampleAnyway, my method is definitely the simplest. No pissing around with masks and going over lines twice. Square brush, squash it flat, spread it out, make it follow your mouse. Then draw. Happy days.
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Post by craz on May 22, 2008 3:16:12 GMT
Thank you so much guys! All the input will be put to use!
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Post by ¢brandon` on May 22, 2008 6:37:19 GMT
oh nice did not know this.. thanks actually. i stand corrected. but hey. i use masks all the time so thats just what i do.. but uhm. your way works jsut as well. but the AA seems to look weird.. i just use those dashed lines for simple effects in some images. i dont really use them giant like that lol. but i do see the over lapping. i thoguht it was a nice effect when it was smaller.. adds dimensionlaity or seomthing
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Post by c130 on May 22, 2008 7:20:36 GMT
but the AA seems to look weird.. Good point... a quick Blur filter seems to fix that.
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Post by Manipulator on Jun 18, 2008 23:09:08 GMT
OH MY GOD ;D Thanks c130, i was wandering how to do this forever.
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Post by c130 on Jun 19, 2008 0:33:57 GMT
Welcome. Glad it helped.
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