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Drawing thin, curved lines (newbie question)
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| Hi!
I am a newbie to adobe photoshop/illustrator and would like to draw
thin, curved lines, the ones that appear on the Acrobat 6.0 splash
screen or in the graphic on this website:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/main.html
It would be nice if somebody would explain to me, how to do, curve and
colour them. Lame question, I know, but I have to start from
something...
Thanks in advance.
Wayne
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| "Wayne" <wayne123@o2.pl> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> I am a newbie to adobe photoshop/illustrator and would like to draw
> thin, curved lines, the ones that appear on the Acrobat 6.0 splash
> screen or in the graphic on this website:
> http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/main.html
>
> It would be nice if somebody would explain to me, how to do, curve and
> colour them. Lame question, I know, but I have to start from
> something...
You could use the pen tool, or Illustrator instead.
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| Gadgets 2004-09-14, 11:14 pm |
| Pen tool, then 'stroke path' from the pullout menu of the paths palette.
Stroke with small pencil or brush (set size before you select stroke
command)
Cheers, Jason (remove ... to reply)
Video & Gaming: http://gadgetaus.com
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| Autodidact 2004-09-14, 11:14 pm |
| Wayne <wayne123@o2.pl> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> I am a newbie to adobe photoshop/illustrator and would like to draw
> thin, curved lines, the ones that appear on the Acrobat 6.0 splash
> screen or in the graphic on this website:
> http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/main.html
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> It would be nice if somebody would explain to me, how to do, curve and
> colour them. Lame question, I know, but I have to start from
> something...
>
> Thanks in advance.
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> Wayne
Use the pen tool, which lays down a series of points to make smooth curves.
The points have "handles" that come out to control the segments between
points, which gives you complete control of the resulting curve.
The key thing to remember is to "click, hold, and drag" when you make a
point, which causes the handles to extend outward from the point. If you
just click and release to make a point, you will not get any handles.
http://www.iland.net/~england/pen1.html
There ya go
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| In article <10kelp83go61g18@news.supernews.com>, jj@jj.jj says...
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>"Wayne" <wayne123@o2.pl> wrote in message
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>You could use the pen tool, or Illustrator instead.
If you intend for them to stay in Vector format, AI definitely. In PS, the Pen
and then Stroke, but the result will be Rasterized and you will experience
some jaggies. Practice with the Pen, in either program, will benefit you, as
it does not work in the linear fashion as a Pencil, or paint Brush, because
the Path that it creates is a mathmatical function, not a pixel related one.
Hunt
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| Wayne 2004-09-15, 11:14 pm |
| wayne123@o2.pl (Wayne) wrote in message news:<44f6873.0409141235.40a7d5bb@posting.google.com>...
> Hi!
>
> I am a newbie to adobe photoshop/illustrator and would like to draw
> thin, curved lines, the ones that appear on the Acrobat 6.0 splash
> screen or in the graphic on this website:
> http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/main.html
>
> It would be nice if somebody would explain to me, how to do, curve and
> colour them. Lame question, I know, but I have to start from
> something...
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Wayne
Thanks everybody.
The replies and links are great - this is what I was searching for.
Wayne
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| SamMan 2004-09-17, 12:14 pm |
| "Wayne" <wayne123@o2.pl> wrote in message
news:44f6873.0409141235.40a7d5bb@posting.google.com...
> Hi!
>
> I am a newbie to adobe photoshop/illustrator and would like to draw
> thin, curved lines, the ones that appear on the Acrobat 6.0 splash
> screen or in the graphic on this website:
> http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/main.html
>
> It would be nice if somebody would explain to me, how to do, curve and
> colour them. Lame question, I know, but I have to start from
> something...
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Wayne
Have a look at Sinedots at http://www.philipp-spoeth.de/
Much easier than doing this sort of thing by hand... but then again, if you
want to.... ;-)
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SamMan
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| Danhiel - SoupOrNews Admin 2004-09-17, 12:14 pm |
| in article xwA2d.45602$6h7.34056@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com, SamMan at
sam@psfdevrip-it.com wrote on 09/17/2004 5:12 AM:
> "Wayne" <wayne123@o2.pl> wrote in message
> news:44f6873.0409141235.40a7d5bb@posting.google.com...
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> Have a look at Sinedots at http://www.artistmike.com
> Much easier than doing this sort of thing by hand... but then again, if you
> want to.... ;-)
Good link.
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| Bart van der Wolf 2004-09-17, 7:14 pm |
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"Danhiel - SoupOrNews Admin" <danhiel@soupornews.com> wrote in message
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SNIP
> Good link.
Lame forgery attempt on your part. A good link to your site is a
contradiction in terms.
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| Danhiel - SoupOrNews Admin 2004-09-17, 7:14 pm |
| in article 414b2301$0$43451$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl, Bart van der Wolf at
bvdwolf@no.spam wrote on 09/17/2004 10:46 AM:
> A good link to great site is http://www.artistmike.com
I agree.
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| Agree with that ... on both "counts."
Really pretty LAME ... isn't he !?!
"Bart van der Wolf" <bvdwolf@no.spam> wrote in message
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> "Danhiel - SoupOrNews Admin" <danhiel@soupornews.com>
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> news:BD704F24.12708E%danhiel@soupornews.com...
> SNIP
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> Lame forgery attempt on your part. A good link to your
site is a
> contradiction in terms.
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| Danhiel - SoupOrNews Admin 2004-09-17, 7:14 pm |
| in article 6QH2d.166$vd1.30@trnddc03, RSD99 at rsdwla.NOSPAM@gte.net wrote
on 09/17/2004 1:30 PM:
> Agree with that ... http://www.artistmike.com is a great site, full of
> useful stuff.
About time you realized that.
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| SamMan 2004-09-17, 7:14 pm |
| "Danhiel - SoupOrNews Admin" <danhiel@soupornews.com> wrote in message
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> About time you realized that I'm an idiot troll.
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Oh... I do... I do
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SamMan
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| Danhiel - SoupOrNews Admin 2004-09-17, 11:14 pm |
| in article hoJ2d.22649$B51.3914@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com, SamMan at
sam@psfdevrip-it.com wrote on 09/17/2004 3:17 PM:
> "Danhiel - SoupOrNews Admin" <danhiel@soupornews.com> wrote in message
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> Oh... I do... I do.
Good.
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