can Photoshop do this?

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:43:58 +0900, "Jenny Brandis" wrote:

I am writing a tutorial that requires diagrams of the path of threads. I would like to draw a wide line that leaves the edges visible and an equal distance apart, no matter what direction I turn it in. eg: street lines on a map. Can Photoshop do this? I have Photoshop CS2 and very little knowledge of it as I come from a Paint Shop Pro background.

Thank you.
Jenny B

Create a custom brush with the required line thicknesses, style, and distance apart. Paint with that brush. Tutorials are on-line on how to create a custom brush.

—

Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL

Jenny Brandis wrote:

I am writing a tutorial that requires diagrams of the path of threads. I would like to draw a wide line that leaves the edges visible and an equal distance apart, no matter what direction I turn it in. eg: street lines on a map. Can Photoshop do this? I have Photoshop CS2 and very little knowledge of it as I come from a Paint Shop Pro background.

Clunky idea: create an empty layer and draw a thick pencil line as required with your ultimate background colour (probably white). Now add a layer style of Outer Glow with say 1px in black.

Better idea: use Illustrator, or some other vector package!

—
Derek Fountain on the web at http://www.derekfountain.org/

"Jenny Brandis" wrote in message

I am writing a tutorial that requires diagrams of the path of threads. I would like to draw a wide line that leaves the edges visible and an equal distance apart, no matter what direction I turn it in. eg: street lines on a map. Can Photoshop do this? I have Photoshop CS2 and very little knowledge of it as I come from a Paint Shop Pro background.

Use the line tool, perhaps with added effects such as stroke, color, outer glow, and drop shadow.
—

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/

On Feb 12, 8:43 pm, "Jenny Brandis" wrote:

I am writing a tutorial that requires diagrams of the path of threads. I would like to draw a wide line that leaves the edges visible and an equal distance apart, no matter what direction I turn it in. eg: street lines on a map. Can Photoshop do this? I have Photoshop CS2 and very little knowledge of it as I come from a Paint Shop Pro background.

Thank you.
Jenny B

Hi Jenny,
I would like to second Derek’s idea but rather than using the color you ultimately want the line to be, use any color with a maximum hardness setting on the brush. Then use these pixels only to shape the style effects by setting the Fill opacity to 0% and use the color overlay to add color to the fill pixels. Then you can use inner or outer glow with a blend mode of normal and a contrasting color like black. This has the added flexibility of allowing you to add nice contours with bevel and contour plus separating the opacities of the effects. Then you can save this style config in the styles palette, called Street or whatever, and apply it to any line of any width or color.

Good luck,
Ron

On Feb 13, 12:49 pm, "" wrote:

On Feb 12, 8:43 pm, "Jenny Brandis" wrote:

I am writing a tutorial that requires diagrams of the path of threads. I would like to draw a wide line that leaves the edges visible and an equal distance apart, no matter what direction I turn it in. eg: street lines on a map. Can Photoshop do this? I have Photoshop CS2 and very little knowledge of it as I come from a Paint Shop Pro background.

Thank you.
Jenny B

Hi Jenny,
I would like to second Derek’s idea but rather than using the color you ultimately want the line to be, use any color with a maximum hardness setting on the brush. Then use these pixels only to shape the style effects by setting the Fill opacity to 0% and use the color overlay to add color to the fill pixels. Then you can use inner or outer glow with a blend mode of normal and a contrasting color like black. This has the added flexibility of allowing you to add nice contours with bevel and contour plus separating the opacities of the effects. Then you can save this style config in the styles palette, called Street or whatever, and apply it to any line of any width or color.

Good luck,
Ron

BTW, if you lay these streets down with paths you can stroke them multiple times. One stroke could be the street but another could be added using a brush with spacing set to something greater than 100%, this will give dashed center lines down the middle of the road. I cannot remember but I think that was Derek’s idea too.