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

"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.

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)
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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...
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> 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

Okay, that was a bad tutorial. Sorry, I was lazy.

Use this much better one instead:

http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorial/pen/

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In article <10kelp83go61g18@news.supernews.com>, jj@jj.jj says...
>
>"Wayne" <wayne123@o2.pl> wrote in message
>news:44f6873.0409141235.40a7d5bb@posting.google.com... 
>
>You could use the pen tool, or Illustrator instead.

If you intend for them to stay in Vector format, AI definitely. In PS, the P
en
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

wayne123@o2.pl (Wayne) wrote in message news:<44f6873.0409141235.40a7d5bb@posting.google.co
m>...
> 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

Thanks everybody.
The replies and links are great - this is what I was searching for.

Wayne

"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...
>
> 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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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... 
>
> Have a look at Sinedots at http://www.artistmike.com
> Much easier than doing this sort of thing by hand... but then again, if yo
u
> want to.... ;-)


Good link.

"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.