How to use pen tool

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Grimmy
Sep 7, 2004
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I have tried to use the pen tool to make some lines, not straight ones, and when I use a stroke on it, it’s all jagged and do not have the fine vectorized line I thought it would have..
How do I make this as good as I want it? 🙂
Thanks.

Grimmy

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Bobby Dogg
Sep 8, 2004
Muician to man on street

"How do I get to the Royal Albert Hall?"

Man "Practice"

I think the same applies to the pen tool. You can move points you have set (RTFM) but there is no shortcut for effort here

Sorry

BD
"Grimmy" wrote in message
I have tried to use the pen tool to make some lines, not straight ones, and when I use a stroke on it, it’s all jagged and do not have the fine vectorized line I thought it would have..
How do I make this as good as I want it? 🙂
Thanks.

Grimmy
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Grimmy
Sep 8, 2004
On 2004-09-08 11:28:15 +0200, "Bobby Dogg" said:

Muician to man on street

"How do I get to the Royal Albert Hall?"

Man "Practice"

I think the same applies to the pen tool. You can move points you have set (RTFM) but there is no shortcut for effort here

Sorry

BD
"Grimmy" wrote in message
I have tried to use the pen tool to make some lines, not straight ones, and when I use a stroke on it, it’s all jagged and do not have the fine vectorized line I thought it would have..
How do I make this as good as I want it? 🙂
Thanks.

Grimmy

Funny.. Not!
But it seems like my post was misunderstood. Bad explanation maybe. Making paths in, almost, every form is not a problem or issue. The only problem I tried to explain was that when I go to Path Palette->stroke path, the swirls, or whatever, after stroke, do NOT have the line of a vectorbased image, but it’s all jagged up. Which is useless for e.g. web or printing.
Hope this helped a bit…

Grimmy
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Grimmy
Sep 8, 2004
On 2004-09-08 20:43:20 +0200, Grimmy said:

On 2004-09-08 11:28:15 +0200, "Bobby Dogg" said:
Muician to man on street

"How do I get to the Royal Albert Hall?"

Man "Practice"

I think the same applies to the pen tool. You can move points you have set (RTFM) but there is no shortcut for effort here

Sorry

BD
"Grimmy" wrote in message
I have tried to use the pen tool to make some lines, not straight ones, and when I use a stroke on it, it’s all jagged and do not have the fine vectorized line I thought it would have..
How do I make this as good as I want it? 🙂
Thanks.

Grimmy

Funny.. Not!
But it seems like my post was misunderstood. Bad explanation maybe. Making paths in, almost, every form is not a problem or issue. The only problem I tried to explain was that when I go to Path Palette->stroke path, the swirls, or whatever, after stroke, do NOT have the line of a vectorbased image, but it’s all jagged up. Which is useless for e.g. web or printing.
Hope this helped a bit…

Grimmy

No worry. Was a piece of cake with illustratror
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MArtin Chiselwitt
Sep 8, 2004
Funny.. Not!
But it seems like my post was misunderstood. Bad explanation maybe. Making paths in, almost, every form is not a problem or issue. The only problem I tried to explain was that when I go to Path Palette->stroke path, the swirls, or whatever, after stroke, do NOT have the line of a vectorbased image, but it’s all jagged up. Which is useless for e.g. web or printing.
Hope this helped a bit…

Grimmy

When you stroke a path you are using brush settings and effectivley you are now working with bitmap and NOT vector. I am assuming from your description that you are stroking with the pencil or something, hence the ‘jaggies’.
Photoshop is pretty useless ifor vector graphics. It is a bitmap editor after all. For what you require, you must use a vector drawing app such as Illustrator
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daglob
Sep 8, 2004
Grimmy …
I have tried to use the pen tool to make some lines, not straight ones, and when I use a stroke on it, it’s all jagged and do not have the fine vectorized line I thought it would have..
How do I make this as good as I want it? 🙂
Thanks.

Grimmy

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If you are using a mouse, you might consider a tablet and pen. I can do somewhat better with a pen, and you can pre-draw the lines you want and trace them with some tablets.

Other than that, well, as the man said, practice. Then use the arrow tool to adjust the lines with the little handle-thingies, erase the points you don’t want with the minus tool, add points with the plus tool, and change points from one kind to the other with the transform tool.
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daglob
Sep 8, 2004
Grimmy …
I have tried to use the pen tool to make some lines, not straight ones, and when I use a stroke on it, it’s all jagged and do not have the fine vectorized line I thought it would have..
How do I make this as good as I want it? 🙂
Thanks.

Grimmy

If you are using a mouse, you might consider a tablet and pen. I can do somewhat better with a pen, and you can pre-draw the lines you want and trace them with some tablets.

Other than that, well, as the man said, practice. Then use the arrow tool to adjust the lines with the little handle-thingies, erase the points you don’t want with the minus tool, add points with the plus tool, and change points from one kind to the other with the transform tool.
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Grimmy
Sep 9, 2004
On 2004-09-08 21:01:39 +0200, MArtin Chiselwitt said:

Funny.. Not!
But it seems like my post was misunderstood. Bad explanation maybe. Making paths in, almost, every form is not a problem or issue. The only problem I tried to explain was that when I go to Path Palette->stroke path, the swirls, or whatever, after stroke, do NOT have the line of a vectorbased image, but it’s all jagged up. Which is useless for e.g. web or printing.
Hope this helped a bit…

Grimmy

When you stroke a path you are using brush settings and effectivley you are now working with bitmap and NOT vector. I am assuming from your description that you are stroking with the pencil or something, hence the ‘jaggies’.
Photoshop is pretty useless ifor vector graphics. It is a bitmap editor after all. For what you require, you must use a vector drawing app such as Illustrator

Thanks m8 🙂
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Corey
Oct 7, 2004
If you don’t have a vector program like Illustrator or Freehand, increase the resolution in Photoshop to create your graphic, perhaps to 300 ppi. The jaggedness of the stroke should diminish greatly. Once you’re finished, save it as a PNG file which will flatten it, but won’t "compress’ it. Then open the PNG file and scale it down to the size and resolution you want for the Web. A little "Unsharp Mask" sharpening (Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask) will make the smile genuine.

Corey 🙂

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