is this possible?

"Matt" wrote:

I have Photoshop 5.5 and I’ve scanned a hand drawn illustration that a previous employee made for the company. I guess that because it was originally had drawn all of the lines have a bit of a rough look to them. This is just find for it’s intended purpose, but I need to add a new line to the illustration. Is it possible to select one of the lines and somehow bend it into a deformed S? I can isolate it just find but bending it into this shape seems to be a big problem for me… and unfortunately I simply can’t draw it myself (believe me, I’ve tried).

I can’t remember that far back. Does 5.5 have the Liquify tool? Pushing a straight line into an "S" curve is easy with that tool. ——————————-
Tom

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"Matt" wrote:

I can’t remember that far back. Does 5.5 have the Liquify tool? Pushing a straight line into an "S" curve is easy with that tool.

not that I can find anywhere

"Matt" wrote:

I can’t remember that far back. Does 5.5 have the Liquify tool? Pushing a straight line into an "S" curve is easy with that tool.

not that I can find anywhere

Then try "Filter > Distort > Wave." If you play with the settings long enough you can get a wavy line. Maybe you can then cut off an appropriate section and use Free Transform to scale to fit. ——————————-
Tom

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"Matt" wrote:

I can’t remember that far back. Does 5.5 have the Liquify tool? Pushing a straight line into an "S" curve is easy with that tool.

not that I can find anywhere

Then try "Filter > Distort > Wave." If you play with the settings long enough you can get a wavy line. Maybe you can then cut off an appropriate section and use Free Transform to scale to fit. ——————————-

thanks for the tip!! Let me ask you this… if I could get some time on a system running Photoshop 7, is the Liquefy tool (assuming it’s on 7) hard or time consuming to learn? I could drive to the next city over and go into a friends business and "borrow" some time on one of their systems while everyone’s out to lunch but I could only get maybe 30 minutes of time at the most.

"Matt" wrote:

thanks for the tip!! Let me ask you this… if I could get some time on a system running Photoshop 7, is the Liquefy tool (assuming it’s on 7) hard or time consuming to learn? I could drive to the next city over and go into a friends business and "borrow" some time on one of their systems while everyone’s out to lunch but I could only get maybe 30 minutes of time at the most.

It’s very simple. You set the brush size in the tool to approximately the size of the curve you want, then push your line in the direction you want it to go. Ten minutes of playing around and you should have the basic idea. But, the Wave filter might save you the trip. ——————————-
Tom

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You could try filter twirl then free transform it .

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Before I start, Photoshop is all I have access to… I know this would be easy in Illustrator but I don’t have Illustrator. And I’m sure that this is a simple problem to solve but unfortunately I only use Photoshop for a very limited purpose and simply don’t know many of the functions.
I have Photoshop 5.5 and I’ve scanned a hand drawn illustration that a previous employee made for the company. I guess that because it was originally had drawn all of the lines have a bit of a rough look to them. This is just find for it’s intended purpose, but I need to add a new line to the illustration. Is it possible to select one of the lines and somehow bend it into a deformed S? I can isolate it just find but bending it into this shape seems to be a big problem for me… and unfortunately I simply can’t draw it myself (believe me, I’ve tried).

sorry, use one of the marquee tools then transform it.

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You could try filter twirl then free transform it .

"Matt" wrote in message

Before I start, Photoshop is all I have access to… I know this would be easy in Illustrator but I don’t have Illustrator. And I’m sure that this is a simple problem to solve but unfortunately I only use Photoshop for a very limited purpose and simply don’t know many of the functions.
I have Photoshop 5.5 and I’ve scanned a hand drawn illustration that a previous employee made for the company. I guess that because it was originally had drawn all of the lines have a bit of a rough look to them. This is just find for it’s intended purpose, but I need to add a new line to the illustration. Is it possible to select one of the lines and somehow bend it into a deformed S? I can isolate it just find but bending it into this shape seems to be a big problem for me… and unfortunately I simply can’t draw it myself (believe me, I’ve tried).

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Before I start, Photoshop is all I have access to… I know this would be easy in Illustrator but I don’t have Illustrator. And I’m sure that this is a simple problem to solve but unfortunately I only use Photoshop for a very limited purpose and simply don’t know many of the functions.
I have Photoshop 5.5 and I’ve scanned a hand drawn illustration that a previous employee made for the company. I guess that because it was originally had drawn all of the lines have a bit of a rough look to them. This is just find for it’s intended purpose, but I need to add a new line to the illustration. Is it possible to select one of the lines and somehow bend it into a deformed S? I can isolate it just find but bending it into this shape seems to be a big problem for me… and unfortunately I simply can’t draw it myself (believe me, I’ve tried).

You might want to create a Path with the Pen Tool. Place your first point where you want your "new line" to begin, and then, by clicking and dragging new points, can create a Path, which can be manipulated with it’s handles. This is exactly like drawing the line in AI. Once you have your old line Path formed, de-form it using the handles. You now have a Path, which can be stroked with most of the painting tools in PS. Place this on a new Layer, and either Select the area of the old line and Delete, or by creating a solid color beneath the Stroked Path that will "hide" the line in the original, you can replace it. If you need to distort the new line to match the rough look of the original, you might want to explore the Filters and the effects they will have on the new line. Without seeing the original artwork I can’t begin to point to a Filter for this degredation. Once satisfied, you can Save_As PSD to keep your Layers and Path for later use, then Flatten Image, and Save_As whatever format you need.

If your line is other than black, you can Sample the original line’s color, before you Stroke your Path, and it will be in that Sampled color. Also, explore the painting tools to get a look similar to the original line, before you Stroke it. Starting close and working to a critical end, is better than starting rough, and trying to modify it all in the final.

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I can’t remember that far back. Does 5.5 have the Liquify tool? Pushing a straight line into an "S" curve is easy with that tool.

not that I can find anywhere

I remember that an earlier version of PS (not sure if it was in 5.5 or
6) the Liquify tool was there, but in a very unusual place. Like, you’d
expect it to be under Filters, like it is in PS7+. But in that earlier version it was somewhere else, like in the Edit folder or something. I forget. Alas, I don’t have anything older than 7 installed anywhere anymore, so I can’t check to see where they hid it. It might be that only 6 had it, and not 5.5.

I remember that an earlier version of PS (not sure if it was in 5.5 or
6) the Liquify tool was there, but in a very unusual place. Like,
you’d expect it to be under Filters, like it is in PS7+. But in that earlier version it was somewhere else, like in the Edit folder or something. I forget. Alas, I don’t have anything older than 7 installed anywhere anymore, so I can’t check to see where they hid it. It might be that only 6 had it, and not 5.5.

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