Draw a simple dotted line?
Posted 08 December 2007 - 05:58 PM
Posted 08 December 2007 - 06:23 PM
Is that a fairly recent feature? cool! didn't notice it lol
My old way of doing it would be to create a pattern with 1 dot then drop the pattern onto your selection using the rectangular select tool
Posted 08 December 2007 - 08:57 PM
What do you do to get it to "stick?"
I draw the line, click Stroke Selection, choose the paintbrush and line style, and click the Stroke button. The construction on the image that the path the tool draws just disappears when I click on something else.
I can draw a curved line and when I stroke that I get the curved line, no dotted line though. :s:
Posted 08 December 2007 - 09:02 PM
or if you want to use a paint brush you will have to increase the spacing over 100 (the slider at the bottom of the brush dialog) before you stroke the path
Posted 08 December 2007 - 10:12 PM
Taking a wild stab, is your line width set to "1"? If so, then activate the Rectangle Select Tool after performing your "Edit->Stroke". Your dotted line should be there (it was there all along, you just don't see it while the Paths Tool is active).
Posted 08 December 2007 - 10:16 PM
When I look in the paths dialog in the layers menu, if the line is curved or angled, then it shows up in the paths layers; a straight line doesn't show anything.
Posted 09 December 2007 - 12:16 AM
As you can see in the paths, nothing shows in there. A curved line would have been a black curve up there next to where it says Unnamed.
I used bright pink as the color so it would show if a line was there and made the line width 32 px; added white bg layer so it would show better.
Click here to see
Posted 09 December 2007 - 12:24 AM
select the path tool click to place the first point then click somewhere else and there should be a line between them, thats the path
saul your 2nd wild stab was close XD
if you want to know more about paths fenceposts tutorial is a great place to start
Creating and Using Paths
Posted 09 December 2007 - 01:03 AM
Clicking from one end to the other works!
Hey thank you all so much. Now I can have all the dotted lines I want. :w:
Had to show you. Such a simple thing to do, but if you don't know how ...
Posted 09 December 2007 - 08:09 AM
If only I hadn't fallen asleep while sharpening my knives, I would have gotten the sucker. :l: