Pen tool

OK... I know how to use the pen tool (I asked you guys how to
though the line don't get smooth... how do I get the line smooth without doing some gussian blur??

cheers

Dont know man. I wish i did. Someone will reply soon.

Please, both of you.....

Explain exactly what you are doing, step-by-step, and include any relevant settings in your descriptions. Then post the image so we may have a look.

I have no trouble getting perfectly smooth curved shapes simply by drawing the shape and filling with a color.

here's a pic off it
http://www22.brinkster.com/eyelessfaces/capture_08082001_145220.jpg

I just do a new "line" and the I ad some more points and bend them. then a right click and (I don't know what it says on the english version but I'll translate from the swedish one.) fill with pencil tool (and that one set to 1 pixel)

"Requested image cannot be loaded offsite."

I tried to mess with the URL but I still couldn't find the image.

Perhaps you need to set up an account at a place that allows this. I use f2s.com...not too bad at all despite some complaints you may hear.

Part of the problem may be that you're trying to fill with the Pencil Tool. First...the Pencil Tool is by its very nature a jaggedy, non-aliased method of laying down pixels. The edges can ONLY be jagged. If you're actually using the "Line Tool"—the one grouped with Custom Shapes—you may not know that the "Line" you're drawing is actually a rectangle with an open interior. The only option you have available to you when right-clicking (Control-Click on Macs) that involves the Pencil Tool would be stroking the subpath(s), and of course this will be jagged. What you want to do is either set a hard edged brush before you stroke (and then select that brush), or Control/right-click and select "Fill Subpath(s)..." and use the color you want.

It may suit your purpose better (can't tell since I wasn't able to get to your image) to use the Pen Tool and draw a non-enclosed line...then just stroke that path with the properly sized brush.

http://www22.brinkster.com/eyelessfaces/forum.htm

this will work (I hope)

Okay...there we go, now I see what you're talking about Orgy....

And I see by the palettes that you aren't using Photoshop version 6. This means that you can ignore what I was saying about the "Line Tool" being an open-interior rectangle. The way the (straight) Line Tool works has been changed in version 6...it's now considered a part of the vector objects.

But, yeah, even without seeing the image, I was right.

I see that you ARE using the Pen Tool to create a path (start calling it that instead of a "Line" to avoid any confusion). You need to stroke the path you've made with a brush, which you set first, before Control/Right-clicking and choosing "Stroke Subpath..." from the menu. Something I've found that helps as well when doing fine Path work like this is to work at a high resolution, such as 288 p.p.i., then scale down to 72 p.p.i. when I've finished the piece. Knowing that you're working at 4 times standard web resolution, you can determine that you'll need to stroke with a 4-pixel diameter brush. When you scale your resolution back down to 72 p.p.i., you will now effectively have a 1 pixel stroke. Think about it....at 288p.p.i. you could use , for example, a 6 pixel brush, so that when you down-res the image it looks like you usaed an otherwise-impossible 1.5 pixel stroke.

That's why I like working at high resolution...I get a lot more precision in the final 72 p.p.i. image.