Adding Fine Horiziontal Lines

Dennis Hughes wrote:

Is there a tool or filter in CS or CS2 that creates a set of very fine horizontical lines with almost no space between them?

Thanks,

Dennis

There are several ways to do this.Try Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern>Line

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I find the Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern>Line, but don’t know how to implement this.

I have an active selected area on a new layer I want to put the lines in. When I go to the filter, I receive an error message that says the area is empty. (it is) I added one line with the brush at one px and go back to the filter, don’t receive the error message, but don’t know where to go from here.

Obviously I’m new to filters.

Thanks,

Dennis

"edjh" wrote in message

Dennis Hughes wrote:

Is there a tool or filter in CS or CS2 that creates a set of very fine horizontical lines with almost no space between them?

Thanks,

Dennis

There are several ways to do this.Try Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern>Line
—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

In alt.graphics.photoshop, Dennis Hughes ordered an army of hamsters to type:

I find the Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern>Line, but don’t know how to implement this.

I have an active selected area on a new layer I want to put the lines in. When I go to the filter, I receive an error message that says the area is empty. (it is) I added one line with the brush at one px and go back to the filter, don’t receive the error message, but don’t know where to go from here.

Obviously I’m new to filters.

Thanks,

Dennis

as edjh said there are numerous ways do do the lines. The filter method does require a layer to something in it to filter.

If you want to make every other line transparent then you could make a new layer, fill it then do the pattern seleting every other line (by select>colour range rather than click click click -_-;) and remove them. Alternatively you could define a pattern with, say a 1×2 pixel image the top pixel being filled and the bottom a transparency and fill a layer with the pattern.

does that help any?

"Dennis Hughes" wrote in message

I find the Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern>Line, but don’t know how to implement this.

I have an active selected area on a new layer I want to put the lines in. When I go to the filter, I receive an error message that says the area is empty. (it is) I added one line with the brush at one px and go back to

the

filter, don’t receive the error message, but don’t know where to go from here.

If you create a new layer from the selection – ie. ctrl + J – then make the new layer active (click on it)
you will be able to use edjh’s method!!

Harry

This works like a champ and gives just the look I need. Had to first fill the selected area with white before the filter would work, as the filter won’t work on a transparent selection.

thanks,

Dennis

"Harry Limey" <harrylimey[@]lycos.co.uk> wrote in message

"Dennis Hughes" wrote in message

I find the Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern>Line, but don’t know how to implement this.

I have an active selected area on a new layer I want to put the lines in. When I go to the filter, I receive an error message that says the area is empty. (it is) I added one line with the brush at one px and go back to

the

filter, don’t receive the error message, but don’t know where to go from here.

If you create a new layer from the selection – ie. ctrl + J – then make the new layer active (click on it)
you will be able to use edjh’s method!!

Harry

edjh’s method worked just fine, once I figured out I needed something in the selected area, not just an empty transparent layer. I’ll try this pattern defination and see just how it works.

Thanks,

Dennis

"Kokoro" wrote in message

as edjh said there are numerous ways do do the lines. The filter method does require a layer to something in it to filter.

If you want to make every other line transparent then you could make a new layer, fill it then do the pattern seleting every other line (by select>colour range rather than click click click -_-;) and remove them. Alternatively you could define a pattern with, say a 1×2 pixel image the top pixel being filled and the bottom a transparency and fill a layer with the pattern.

does that help any?

I find the Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern>Line, but don’t know how to implement this.

I have an active selected area on a new layer I want to put the lines in. When I go to the filter, I receive an error message that says the area is empty. (it is) I added one line with the brush at one px and go back to the filter, don’t receive the error message, but don’t know where to go from here.

Obviously I’m new to filters.

Thanks,

Dennis

Dennis Hughes wrote:

This works like a champ and gives just the look I need. Had to first fill the selected area with white before the filter would work, as the filter won’t work on a transparent selection.

thanks,

Dennis

"Harry Limey" <harrylimey[@]lycos.co.uk> wrote in message

"Dennis Hughes" wrote in message

I find the Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern>Line, but don’t know how to implement this.

I have an active selected area on a new layer I want to put the lines in. When I go to the filter, I receive an error message that says the area is empty. (it is) I added one line with the brush at one px and go back to

the

filter, don’t receive the error message, but don’t know where to go from here.

If you create a new layer from the selection – ie. ctrl + J – then make the new layer active (click on it)
you will be able to use edjh’s method!!

Harry

You can also use the filter n a channel for some nice effects.

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http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

Great Tip!!! Thank you

How do you use this in channels?

"edjh" wrote in message

Dennis Hughes wrote:

Is there a tool or filter in CS or CS2 that creates a set of very fine horizontical lines with almost no space between them?

Thanks,

Dennis

There are several ways to do this.Try Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern>Line
—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html