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Tutorial:
Making Dashed Lines in Photoshop |
20 April 2007
Since Photoshop
doesn't provide a tool to make dashed lines, I
want to share a tutorial that I got from the internet.
This tutorial using brush and do some settings
on brush properties. Cool :). I hope this tutorial
is useful for Photoshop users.
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Credits to Pete
Bauer
While Photoshop doesn't offer a dashed line option,
such as that found in Illustrator's Stroke palette,
you can easily simulate them by editing a brush
in the Brushes palette.
Remember that you need to open the Brushes palette
from the Palette Well or the Window menu (or the
F5 key). The small Brushes palette found at the
left end of the Options Bar is for brush selection,
not brush editing or creation. And what if the
Brushes palette is grayed out and unavailable?
Switch to a brush-using tool, such as the Brush
tool (press B on the keyboard).
Reducing
the Roundness makes a square brush flat. Increasing
the Spacing moves each "instance" of
the brush tip imprint farther apart. (Think of
Photoshop's brushes as applying the brush tip
many times close together as you drag, rather
than as a continuous stream of color, like an
ink pen.) And, of course, the "dash"
doesn't need to be at 50% roundness.
Don't forget that you can make vertical dashed
lines rather than horizontal by changing the Angle
setting in the Brushes palette to 90 degrees.
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