How to Hatch in photoshop

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"randomthoughts" wrote in message

Would any one please help me to hatch a selection in photoshop. I have seen only filling the selected area with texture or patterns.. but I need autocad like hatching (or filling with dots or simple patters like diagonal lines) for engineering drawing.. This should be possible with photoshop i think.. would anyone please help me on this.. i wonder why photoshop didn’t make it bit easy to hatch the selections …

How is what you want to do different from making a selection and filling with a pattern? maybe I could offer an answer if i knew…..
"randomthoughts" wrote in message

Would any one please help me to hatch a selection in photoshop. I have seen only filling the selected area with texture or patterns.. but I need autocad like hatching (or filling with dots or simple patters like diagonal lines) for engineering drawing.. This should be possible with photoshop i think.. would anyone please help me on this.. i wonder why photoshop didn’t make it bit easy to hatch the selections …

Maybe he wants some kind of vector hatching instead of a bitmap fill?

Stuart

JP Kabala wrote:

How is what you want to do different from making a selection and filling with a pattern? maybe I could offer an answer if i knew…..
"randomthoughts" wrote in message

Would any one please help me to hatch a selection in photoshop. I have seen only filling the selected area with texture or patterns.. but I need autocad like hatching (or filling with dots or simple patters like diagonal lines) for engineering drawing.. This should be possible with photoshop i think.. would anyone please help me on this.. i wonder why photoshop didn’t make it bit easy to hatch the selections …

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Photoshop isn’t designed to do vector hatching. It can’t produce true vectors.
<Superhero mode>
"This is a job for Illustrator Man"
</Superhero mode>
Where’s that guy who wanted to know why you need both PS and Illustrator?? This is the answer to his question.

B_U_T
I guess it could be simulated by creating
paths with the pen or line
tool and stroking them with various
types of lines, but it would be tedious in the extreme….

Or it could be done with the right font and the text tool, which might be a *little* less tedious (need to adjust kern and leading) Even ubiquitous fonts like Times New Roman or Dingbats in the extended character set have some stuff that could be used for this ++++++++++
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Anyone for ASCII art?

Not the best solutions, but as kludges go, they work. Frankly, I’d do it once and give up and buy a vector app. You’d save enough time on one job to justify the cost of something like Xara, if not Illustrator.

"Stuart" wrote in message

Maybe he wants some kind of vector hatching instead of a bitmap fill?
Stuart

JP Kabala wrote:

How is what you want to do different from making a selection and filling with a pattern? maybe I could offer an answer if i knew…..
"randomthoughts" wrote in message

Would any one please help me to hatch a selection in photoshop. I have seen only filling the selected area with texture or patterns.. but I need autocad like hatching (or filling with dots or simple patters like diagonal lines) for engineering drawing.. This should be possible with photoshop i think.. would anyone please help me on this.. i wonder why photoshop didn’t make it bit easy to hatch the selections …

On 15 Feb 2004 20:49:53 -0800,
(randomthoughts) wrote:

Would any one please help me to hatch a selection in photoshop. I have seen only filling the selected area with texture or patterns.. but I need autocad like hatching (or filling with dots or simple patters like diagonal lines) for engineering drawing.. This should be possible with photoshop i think.. would anyone please help me on this.. i wonder why photoshop didn’t make it bit easy to hatch the selections …

What you are talking about is better done in a vector program such as Illustrator
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JP Kabala wrote:

Photoshop isn’t designed to do vector hatching. It can’t produce true vectors.

I know it isn’t, I am an illustrator man myself. It was just a question, maybe I should have
added the point about illustrator being better for the job. As we don’t know what he is
attempting to do as a whole then it is a bit hard to tell him to use illustrator.

Stuart

<Superhero mode>
"This is a job for Illustrator Man"
</Superhero mode>
Where’s that guy who wanted to know why you need both PS and Illustrator?? This is the answer to his question.

B_U_T
I guess it could be simulated by creating
paths with the pen or line
tool and stroking them with various
types of lines, but it would be tedious in the extreme….
Or it could be done with the right font and the text tool, which might be a *little* less tedious (need to adjust kern and leading) Even ubiquitous fonts like Times New Roman or Dingbats in the extended character set have some stuff that could be used for this ++++++++++
++++++++++
///////////////
//////////////
?????
Anyone for ASCII art?

Not the best solutions, but as kludges go, they work. Frankly, I’d do it once and give up and buy a vector app. You’d save enough time on one job to justify the cost of something like Xara, if not Illustrator.

"Stuart" wrote in message

Maybe he wants some kind of vector hatching instead of a bitmap fill?
Stuart

JP Kabala wrote:

How is what you want to do different from making a selection and filling with a pattern? maybe I could offer an answer if i knew…..
"randomthoughts" wrote in message

Would any one please help me to hatch a selection in photoshop. I have seen only filling the selected area with texture or patterns.. but I need autocad like hatching (or filling with dots or simple patters like diagonal lines) for engineering drawing.. This should be possible with photoshop i think.. would anyone please help me on this.. i wonder why photoshop didn’t make it bit easy to hatch the selections …

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OK you need to make some patterns to accomplish this. You can make them on the fly, for instance, say you want to "hatch" with dots. Open a new transparent file, here you will need to decide what size of dots and how far apart, let say for the sake of very small dots, make the new file 5px by 5px. Use the Pencil tool, foreground black, size 1. Click once in the center of the canvas, Edit, Define Pattern, click OK in resulting dialog. Now you can fill your selection with that pattern. Here are a few pixel patterns I made in CS, put them in your Patterns folder and see if any of them will work for you. I hope that it’s ok to post a download link here. My Photoshop site is a WIP far behind in the line of things I gotta do. http://www.digitalartresources.com/PixelPatterns.zip

"randomthoughts" wrote in message

Would any one please help me to hatch a selection in photoshop. I have seen only filling the selected area with texture or patterns.. but I need autocad like hatching (or filling with dots or simple patters like diagonal lines) for engineering drawing.. This should be possible with photoshop i think.. would anyone please help me on this.. i wonder why photoshop didn’t make it bit easy to hatch the selections …

Did either of you thnk about using paths? Make a selection, then from the selection, create a path. With this path you can form it into any vector shape you like. From here, you can turn this path into a neat little selection, and fill this selection with what you want. It’s a very simple, yet powerful sequence you can use.

I will agree though, illustrator will indeed work as well. So would freehand.

I did, see my post, but if you FILL a closed path with a pattern the end result is
no different than filling a selection with a pattern. You still have a raster
pattern. If he wants vectors…anything which uses the words Photoshop and Fill
together won’t do it.

Illustrator, Freehand, Corel, even Sara
"Joshua Gosse" wrote in message

Did either of you thnk about using paths? Make a selection, then from the selection, create a path. With this path you can form it into any vector shape you like. From here, you can turn this path into a neat little selection, and fill this selection with what you want. It’s a very simple, yet powerful sequence you can use.

I will agree though, illustrator will indeed work as well. So would freehand.

This is true and knowing absolutely nothing about autocad and it’s workings I assumed the user simply wants a pattern which is not included in the standard supplied patterns in Photoshop, not an actual vector image. As per Joshua’s suggestion you could easily create a path with that pattern "fill" on a new layer, (the fills are simple pixel patterns on transparent). "JP Kabala" wrote in message

I did, see my post, but if you FILL a closed path with a pattern the end result is
no different than filling a selection with a pattern. You still have a raster
pattern. If he wants vectors…anything which uses the words Photoshop and Fill
together won’t do it.

Illustrator, Freehand, Corel, even Sara
"Joshua Gosse" wrote in message

Did either of you thnk about using paths? Make a selection, then from

the

selection, create a path. With this path you can form it into any vector shape you like. From here, you can turn this path into a neat little selection, and fill this selection with what you want. It’s a very

simple,

yet powerful sequence you can use.

I will agree though, illustrator will indeed work as well. So would freehand.

Hey, T! 🙂
Hell, *none* of us really knows what he wants, because he asked a pretty vague question, and hasn’t popped back in to clarify yet.

Which is why my first response to the original poster
was basically, "Huh? why is filling a selection with a pattern not working for you?"

The pseudo-vector alternatives were a response to Stuart’s assertion that Random probably wanted vectors…. but you and I both know that trying to make PS act like a vector app is clumsy at best. And if someone doesn’t have anything better to do than create ASCII art……I want that job. LOL

As to CAD— CAD is CAD… more like Illy than PS, but more like itself than anything else. In some ways brilliant, and in others so clunky you have no trouble understanding why they
export files for enhancement. I’m not a CAD guru, but I’ve had to deal with my share of AutoCAD files from engineers and architects for about the last 7 years… (I do my "take a CAD house and a digital photo of the site and combine into a ‘watercolor’ rendering" routine for them…)

Hey, completely OT—do you remember that guy from Binney & Smith? (the Crayola guy who had us all playing on the Silly Putty site for a couple of days) His stuff began as CAD…and *he* was just amazing with it. I’ve seen a lot of CAD, but his stuff was so cool!!!! I wonder what did with that metallic Silly Putty I bought?

"Digital Art Resources" wrote in message

This is true and knowing absolutely nothing about autocad and it’s

workings

I assumed the user simply wants a pattern which is not included in the standard supplied patterns in Photoshop, not an actual vector image. As

per

Joshua’s suggestion you could easily create a path with that pattern

"fill"

on a new layer, (the fills are simple pixel patterns on transparent). "JP Kabala" wrote in message

I did, see my post, but if you FILL a closed path with a pattern the end result is
no different than filling a selection with a pattern. You still have a raster
pattern. If he wants vectors…anything which uses the words Photoshop

and

Fill
together won’t do it.

Illustrator, Freehand, Corel, even Sara
"Joshua Gosse" wrote in message

Did either of you thnk about using paths? Make a selection, then from

the

selection, create a path. With this path you can form it into any

vector

shape you like. From here, you can turn this path into a neat little selection, and fill this selection with what you want. It’s a very

simple,

yet powerful sequence you can use.

I will agree though, illustrator will indeed work as well. So would freehand.

Oh yeah I remember that also name the crayon, I remember his cad work, reminded me a bit of some output I have seen from 3d stuff. My old neighbor used AutoCAD for designing stencils for his airbrush work on motorcycle tanks, I always wondered why he would use such a mind boggling program. "JP Kabala" wrote in message

Hey, T! 🙂
Hell, *none* of us really knows what he wants, because he asked a pretty vague question, and hasn’t popped back in to clarify yet.
Which is why my first response to the original poster
was basically, "Huh? why is filling a selection with a pattern not working for you?"

The pseudo-vector alternatives were a response to Stuart’s assertion that Random probably wanted vectors…. but you and I both know that trying to make PS act like a vector app is clumsy at best. And if someone doesn’t have anything better to do than create ASCII art……I want that job. LOL

As to CAD— CAD is CAD… more like Illy than PS, but more like itself than anything else. In some ways brilliant, and in others so clunky you have no trouble understanding why they
export files for enhancement. I’m not a CAD guru, but I’ve had to deal with my share of AutoCAD files from engineers and architects for about the last 7 years… (I do my "take a CAD house and a digital photo of the site and combine into a ‘watercolor’ rendering" routine for them…)

Hey, completely OT—do you remember that guy from Binney & Smith? (the Crayola guy who had us all playing on the Silly Putty site for a couple of days) His stuff began as CAD…and *he* was just amazing with it. I’ve seen a lot of CAD, but his stuff was so cool!!!! I wonder what did with that metallic Silly Putty I bought?
"Digital Art Resources" wrote in message

This is true and knowing absolutely nothing about autocad and it’s

workings

I assumed the user simply wants a pattern which is not included in the standard supplied patterns in Photoshop, not an actual vector image. As

per

Joshua’s suggestion you could easily create a path with that pattern

"fill"

on a new layer, (the fills are simple pixel patterns on transparent). "JP Kabala" wrote in message

I did, see my post, but if you FILL a closed path with a pattern the

end

result is
no different than filling a selection with a pattern. You still have

a

raster
pattern. If he wants vectors…anything which uses the words Photoshop

and

Fill
together won’t do it.

Illustrator, Freehand, Corel, even Sara
"Joshua Gosse" wrote in message

Did either of you thnk about using paths? Make a selection, then

from

the

selection, create a path. With this path you can form it into any

vector

shape you like. From here, you can turn this path into a neat little selection, and fill this selection with what you want. It’s a very

simple,

yet powerful sequence you can use.

I will agree though, illustrator will indeed work as well. So would freehand.

On 2/15/04 11:49 PM, in article
, "randomthoughts"
wrote:

Would any one please help me to hatch a selection in photoshop. I have seen only filling the selected area with texture or patterns.. but I need autocad like hatching (or filling with dots or simple patters like diagonal lines) for engineering drawing.. This should be possible with photoshop i think.. would anyone please help me on this.. i wonder why photoshop didn’t make it bit easy to hatch the selections …

Create a grayscale job and convert it to bitmap. In the bitmap conversion process, the dialog box will give you an option to use lines and the angle you would like them.
The lines will be spaced according to the percentage of gray that you convert.
Once you have your hatched lines, create a brush from the job and paint the areas you need hatched.
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