[minkee]

how do i do that then?

i use photoshop and a wacom but i can never seem to get nice clean lines.

any suggestions appreciated!

[specialbrew]

Do you mean on output or on screen?

sb

[colonel kurtz]

Which model wacom?

[Frog]

Photoshop sucks at clean lines, it simply can't do them. Painter and illustrator have smoothing algorythms that get over the jitter from the wacom/usb port, photoshop doesn't.

when I need clean lines I use illustrator, it's by far the best program for that and makes your wacom strokes smooth and lovely. Painter is also good but doesn't give you quite the control that illustrator does.

[-HoodZ-]

flexible elf uses painter to ink...he has some nice linework...i think he uses the inking tools on painter

[minkee]

looks like i'm gonna have to give painter a whirl then

i just can't get on with illustrator for some reason, spose i should give it a better go really but .. well, i'm lazy and just as i get fairly adept at ps too fs

thanks for your help, and hopefully i'll be able to do something good enough to show you soon!

[Frog]

For what you're trying to do, it's really easy to use illustrator. Scan in a sketch, import it into illustrator, double click on the layer and set it to template, create another layer above it. Then select the brush tool, create a new brush (the default ones aren't round enough) set it to calligraphic and make it 2-4 points in size and pressure sensitive, double click on the brush tool in the tool panel to set the tablet response and off you go, paint away.

As I said, Painter is also very good for this (although the line quality won't be quite the same so it's a matter of taste). But two mega advantages in illustrator is that the tablet response can be set very precisely and the strokes are still editable once they're painted, because they're vectors.

[Joachim]

I would suggest using pencil and paper or pen and paper and then scan it in. Nothing beats that

[egerie]

I agree Plus it's a heck of a lot faster..