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So I'm trying to create some little curly embellishments like on http://www.powazek.com/

particularly like the tile he uses to seperate the bottom panel as well as next to his header text. I'm trying to use paths which I'm sure is the right solution but i'm not getting it right. Anyone have a quick and relatively painless method for this?



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I think that's just a character from a wingdings font. If you look next to "JUST A LINK" you can see it by itself.

The bar effect is just one reversed then overlapped, then repeated.

oh jeeeees, robbing fonts is great for good vector bits (lesson from f1_error, flamejobs, old scool asylum, cheers!), that is, if you don't have to search too long to find what you're after, then the pen is good for that type of thing indeed.

what problem are you having with the pen, drawing the shape or filling it in? For either I believe there are tutorials for both at the GN, an intro to the pen by stever thing and something about path stroking from warjournal I think...

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More filling it in. I'm not really getting the variable widths that make it flow done well. I'll take a look at the GN



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Using Inkscape, you'd just draw your shape, then hit CTRL+SHIFT+F and tell it to fill.

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reisio said:

Using Inkscape, you'd just draw your shape, then hit CTRL+SHIFT+F and tell it to fill.

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Essentially the same for photoshop.

The variable width is something you need to draw - there's no way I know of to just make a curve and have the app make the pretty parts...

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The variable width is something you need to draw - there's no way I know of to just make a curve and have the app make the pretty parts...

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You can try and stroke your path with a calligraphy brush to get variable widths. This will most likely lead to some undesirable bits, but those can always be cleaned up later.

There's no quick and easy way to do this, unless you have a tablet and a steady hand.

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synax said:

There's no quick and easy way to do this, unless you have a tablet and a steady hand.

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The idea behind using the pen tool to do this is drawing the complete outline - not just the inner path of the curve.
I find it easiest to draw something roughly on paper, then scan it and trace it with the pen tool.