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Hey all,

I'm trying to make a pattern of squares but I want the lines of the squares to be dotted instead of filled. Any ideas?


Walking the Earth like Kane

Hi Bit, you could try this...

create a new brush:
diameter: 3 (or experiment to suit)
Hardness: 100 (or experiment to suit)
Spacing: 200 % (or experiment to suit)

Create a square selection marquee...... now with the selection tool still active, 2nd/3rd mouse button and choose 'make work path' (tolerance:0.5).

Now jump over to your Paths palette and at the bottom of it choose the icon second from the left. This will stroke the square path with the new brush you created. With any luck and a bit of messing with the settings of the new brush you should get what you need.....

hope that helps

~Vp~

edit: I thought I remembered a Thread on this recently also! .. check out http://www.OzoneAsylum.com/Forum3/HTML/000840.html where Warjournal and F1 also have suggestions. WJ acyaully refers to his tut that is soon to be at the GUrusNetwork I think...

[This message has been edited by vogonpoet (edited 02-05-2001).]

Much thanks!


Walking the Earth like Kane

You can stroke a selection also, save a step...

Yeah, but not with a painting tool, which is necessary to use the technique VP describes and which Warjournal has presented in an excellent tutorial just around the corner at GN. Stroke path is always a solid stroke. Stroke pat permits choice of painting tool and brush.

Would you read that last sentence to me again. please , Steve?

<edit> You ,too, VP ?</edit>

[This message has been edited by docilebob (edited 02-06-2001).]

Sure!
"Stroke pat permits choice of painting tool and brush."

An' if pat don' like strokin', try spankin'


Uhhm, guess that was what ol' VP would refer to as "fat fingers"

Here's what a more sober Steve would have written, had Steve been more sober:

Choosing to stroke a PATH permits you the option of selecting which painting tool and which brush to apply the stroke with.

When you stroke a selection, you only get to choose what color, how many pixels wide the stroke will be, and whether the stroke lies inside, outside or centered on the selection boundary.

When you stroke a PATH, the stroke is applied using whatever painting tool (brush, airbrush, clone tool ...), opacity and brush style you have selected at the time. Besides the dotted line effect, one cool technique for using the stroke path command is the "neon" effect: stroke a path with a broad, feathered brush at a low opacity; stroke again with a slightly smaller brush at greater opacity; continue as many times as you want, ending with a small, hard brush using a bright color at 100% opacity. It's a cool effect (a hot center "light" with a feathered glow around it), and can only be done with the stroke path technique.

Hey you! Yeah, you, VP! Whatcha grinnin' at?
mutter
wish Drambuie didn't cost so much
mutter

huh....

Steve, do you write books for adobe in your spare time?

hmm.... now i now how to make a light saber.... when i made mine i used bruses and the Shift key.... hrmm....

o O (Steve , photoshop , and a bottle of Drambuie?... hmm)

the mind boggles! heh!

~Vp~