Stroking a path pedantically - should be easy

I want to do a little black border for something, that involves a few curves and a few orthogonal straight lines.

I want there to be aliasing on the curves - so they look nice :D - and for the straight lines to appear as 2 pixels wide only - for efficient web design .

So, I define myself a little path. I'm fairly new to photoshop and this is my first real attempt to use paths. The making of the path and the parametric curves goes well. So, I try to define my little black line. First I select the pencil tool and stroke using that but :eek: there's no aliasing! So, I switch to the paintbrush tool and stroke using that but :eek: it aliases the straight lines making them 2 and a bit pixels wide (even though I'm using a 2 pixel hard brush).

:( Is there a way to do this without having to do each bit of the path separately with the pencil and paintbrush tools? :confused:

Splitting up the path could take a while... :o

Cheers for any help... if I get any. ;)

Hmmmm....Give this a try.

Create the path you need, at the size you need, at standard 72 p.p.i. Now, go to Image--->Duplicate... Hit Enter/Return. When your copy comes up, go to Image--->Image size, and set the resolution to 288 p.p.i., making sure the "Constrain Proportions" and "Resample Image" (Bicubic) boxes are checked.

Select the Paintbrush, and create a Custom Brush 6 pixels in diameter, at 90% hardness, and spacing set to "1". Select the Path Component Selection Tool (A), select the entire path, and stroke with the Paintbrush.

Now, go to Image--->Image Size...and reset the resolution of the duplicate iamge back to 72 p.p.i. Choose the Move Tool (V), Select All (Command/CTRL-A), hold down the Shift key and drag the layer to your original document window.

You should be pretty dadgum close to a straight, Pencil-made 2 pixel line. If necessary, you can do some thickness adjustment using Brightness/Contrast and/or Levels.

and Look up "Pedantically" in your dictionary!

heh heh heh MarkZ....really funny.

I chose to ignore the easy joke. I simply have to much book larnin' stuffed into ma haid.

If I wanted an english lesson, I'd have asked for it! I guess you learn something new every day... :rolleyes:

Shouldn't you be giving us Americans the English Lessons! LOL
Later,
Justin
PS-I have too many small unimportant details to attend to, than to look up pedantically. lol

For those of you who are TOO busy....

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=pedantically


Hope that helps! :p

I was using the word pedantically in the context of the informal definition of pedantic, but according to my correctors and to dictionary.com pedantically does not appear to acknowledge that.

So head on down to dictionary.com if you really care. Nope? Didn't think so. :rolleyes:

I don't worry so much as I laugh at malaprops, but what I'm really curious about is whether my suggestion worked for you?

hmmm the UNIMAGINATIVE, PEDESTRIAN line - and how to stroke it !