Is there anyway to make a dotted line in CS2? Manuals and everything I find refers to adjusting the spacing but I can’t find that option anywhere.
thanks
You can do this in layer styles – apply a layer style stroke, and set the stroke fill to ‘pattern’.
But before you to THAT, you need to create a checkerboard like pattern.
I’ve found the easiest way for me is to create a path, go to Text on path, do a bunch of hyphens along the path.
Just change the spacing on your brush until you get the type of dot you want. The standard spacing is 25%, but higher percentages will yield a brush stroke with no overlap. Experiment to get the spacing you want.
If you have a rectangular brush, you can go in the Brush Palette to Shape Dynamics>Angle Jitter and choose Direction to have the brush tip shape follow a path. (Remember to increase its Spacing as suggested).
Result is sort-of how a dashed line looks in Illustrator (a couple problems on sharp corners, but not a bad result.)
