Freehand drawing with curve support

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malojo
Jan 2, 2009
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Hi there,
I have here a more complicated question. Maybe you can follow me. Is there a way within PS to support freehand drawings. What I mean is a support in that way which makes hand drawed curves more smooth. You know what I mean. I think Marcomedias Flash does such things. Is this also in PS availible?
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KatWoman
Jan 2, 2009
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Hi there,
I have here a more complicated question. Maybe you can follow me. Is there a way within PS to support freehand drawings. What I mean is a support in that way which makes hand drawed curves more smooth. You know what I mean. I think Marcomedias Flash does such things. Is this also in PS availible?

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walton
Jan 4, 2009
I agree that using Bezier curves (pen tool) can make very smooth lines/curves. Tablet and pen are a must.

I have noticed that brush size and available resources can effect the quality–usually creating corners where there are none (like the line is drawn in chunks). Check your brush presets and make sure that things like jitter and scatter are off (unless you want them). Select a smaller size brush.

Drawing with styles can deteriorate nice lines too.

With previous computers, I have had to purge all to keep resources up.

Walton

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Mylenium
Jan 4, 2009
Not that I know of. Since PS does not draw Bezier curves, there is no way to smooth them. Any curvature in PS is merely a result of the stepping and accumulation while drawing the strokes. Maybe it does some smoothing on the fly under the hood, but not in the way you can in other Adobe apps.

Mylenium
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Wesley_Norman
Jan 4, 2009
The closest you can get, I think, is to use the Pen freeform tool. That way you will be writing or drawing in bezier curves. Some one tell me if I am wrong.

Wes

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