The "Status" Line...

hi all.
well i just wanna know, how can u do this thing, i'm new in photoshop, and i don't know the name of this, i've made an example in paint (lol)...

if u could help me (an detailed explanaition would be great), it would be great..
thanks in advance.

ps:sorry my english.

You could design the path with the pen tool. Then you could stroke the work path. You should look at a real picture of a heartbeat monitor (which is what that is). You could either trace it with the pen tool or draw it freehand.

Hope this helps.

I would use the polygonal lasso tool, stroking the selection and then delete the excess.

Honestly I would probably paint one section with the Paint brush (shift-clicking to get straight lines) then duplicate the section to make the full line.

The trouble with that method Crypto is that you would be constrained to 45 degree angles.

No that is if you hold the shift key.

if you click then move to a destination point and shift click it wil connect those two points with a straight line.

works with most brush like tools, (paint brush, history brush, clone stamp tool, etc.)

Try it, it's fun!

Sorry misunderstood your post, I thought you were constraining, obviously not :p

Hey I stayed up until 3 AM last night making a heart monitor. check it out.

click here

If you click on the link directly below the heart monitor it will take you to a tutorial on how to make it, With hopefully detailed instructions.

Good call Crypto, think you more than answered his question now ;)