I need to draw a thin white line across an image, infact several lines in different places. The lines need to be permanent. I want to key in the number of pixels for the the thickness of the line and if possible key in the position of the line. I know I can use a new grid line to position a grid line, but how do I then turn that grid line into a permanent line where I can decide the width and colour? I'm trying to refrain from the long way round of zooming up to 1600% and physically using the rectangular marquee tool then filling the rectangal with colour.
In Illustrator CS6, I would like to draw these trails for a map I'm making. Is there a way I can draw using the "Pencil" tool where when I draw, it draws a second line next to it? Is there a setting for that? Â Here is an old map where you can see the double broken lines. I know how to set it so the line has gaps in it, but I need a line to be the same next to it.
I'm using the Pencil Tool to draw shapes (not good enough for the Pen Tool yet) and some of my paths are not as smooth as I'd like, so I go over them with the Smooth Tool, though it seems like it either smooths the path a little bit or completely changes its shape.
Does it exist? If not, why not? I discovered it in SAI and it's amazing how easily one could draw smooth curves with the brush/pencil without a need to mess with vectors but SAI is seriously lacking in many basic things that Paint.net has (i couldn't even change the size of a cut/pasted object). It would be perfect if Paint.net had it.
Working in PS CS6. I want to use the pencil tool at 1px, and I've changed my settings accordingly (even typed it in to be sure) but the minumum size it will actually go is 3px.  To be clear, the size is set to 1px, but when you zoom all the way in so that the individual pixels are visible, the pencil is a 3px x 3px square and will not go smaller.  The brush tool does not behave this way, and I would use it instead but for this project I need the square precision of the pencil. I'm working in a 72dpi RGB document. I do not have this issue in CS5.
I am painting various pixels with transparency, and I don't like that pixels previously painted become more opaque when I paint over them. I would like the opacity information to remain the same, regardless of how often I paint over an already-painted pixel.
For example, suppose I paint the color (100,100,100) on a pixel with 60% opacity. If I paint over this pixel again, it should still have 60% opacity. I don't want it "stacking".
Also, just as an off topic question, is there any reason why so many people use photoshop over paint shop? I see them both as very identical and I'm having difficulty finding differences. Paint Shop Pro X is very nice, I think CS2 and PSPX are all the same.
My pencil tool has randomly stopped working, everything else in that pallet works fine. But when I select pencil and try to draw or change stroke size it has no reacion. I did try uninstall and reinstall but no good?
I´ve been making pixel art for a while now and recently I upgraded to cs6. all was fine till I tried to stroke a circular path with the pencil tool. The Circles it makes are completely uneven.  These are the paths i traced in different sizes  this is the stroked path with a 1 x 1 pixel pencilÂ
as you can see the the bottom and right part of the circles is different from the top left. it is more noticeable on smaller circles.it also happens with bigger stroke sizes.this diddn´t happen in cs5.
Since changing from my 3 month trial with CS6 the other day my dry media and pencil brushes have lost some of their texture and look over saturated. As I'm trying to do pencil roughs via photoshop for a client I would like to resolve this ASAP.
Is there anything I can do to get the detail in the brush strokes back?
How do I control being able to see the pixel size of the pencil tool so its not just a small x but I can actually see the size of the area I am going to draw with?
It's been awhile since I've posted. Still been doing graphics work, but not had enough time to really push myself and grow in a way that required a community. I posted this on another forum with no response, I'm hoping perhaps I'll get a bit more out of the place where I started out.
I was wondering if there was a way to take a shaded pencil drawing and make the lines pure black in phososhop. Also I cant put color in the parts that are shaded, maybe it cant recognize the color or something.
way to make outlines look like they were scribbled with a pencil. i created several objects in illustrator and imported them into psp. the have just black outlines and no fill color. any idea how i can achieve a scribble look?
My buddy(tattoo artist) has a pencil drawing that he wants cleaned up, and printed for a tattoo.
Other than all the manual goodies are there any quicker methods? He has a big ol stack of drawings and I dont want to work on them all if I have to do everything touch up here and touch up there.
1) I have a pattern that I'd like to use with the pencil tool. Is there a way to do this?
I mean something similar to painting with patterns - that is, with the paint tool, you can select "Pattern" from the Fill drop-down menu, select a pattern from the Pattern drop-down menu, and then paint that pattern into your image. Supposing you set the Brush for the pencil to be big enough, how could you do this with the pencil tool?
2) Is there a way to make a selection and paint the whole region selected with one click? That is, even if the colors and shapes are heterogenous and contrasting sharply such that the paint tool would never paint beyond the bounds of any shapes or colors.
I am drawing with a bamboo tablet a road on a map and the edges of my stroke look bumpy, i.e. not smooth, using the pencil tool.
I have the hardness set to 0. If I hold the shift key and draw parts of the road that are straight I get a nice smooth edge but when I add in the curves I must have terrible shaky hand cos its so bumpy. Is there a smooth tool or something similar?
I am using PS to create a bitmap for another tool (not PS) that requires shapes to be completely closed. I am drawing using paths and then stroking with the pencil. The problem is that a 45 degree line will be stroked like this with a 1px pencil: Code:
I mean what you got when you write something in a paper with more papers underneath and you scratch in the second one (where the impresion off what you wrote on the top one leaves a marck) with a pencil to reveal what was written?
I'm in a trial Photoshop Elements 12 til my copy arrives from amazon.com. I want to get into photo to pencil drawing. There is no problem importing the photo subject. After watching repeated you-tube how to I can't seem to get a layer.  I must of bought the wrong version for photos to pencil drawings.Â
How do I turn off anti-aliasing for the pencil tool in Photoshop CS6. I want to draw a single pixel. I do not want to draw a shape or a line. I do not want additional low-opacity pixels on either side. Â I set the pixel size to 1 and hardness to 100%. The pencil tool produces an anti-aliased line. I do not want this.