[Katie_Designs]

does anyone know how to make curvy dashed lines? what i mean is, dashed lines, as in ------- around say text or a circle, i need to know how to do this in Photoshop 7 and i can't believe that there isn't a simplier way other than doing it manually by hand with the eraser.
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[Katie_Designs]

like this

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[eyewoo]

I may be wrong,... but I don't think there is an automatic way to do that in Photoshop...

Perhaps in the next version they'll add that capability to the growing vector options.
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[Max]

don't know if you mean this but: you have a text layer for example - now press alt and click on the layer....you'll see

[B0b]

nah Max thats just making it a selection marquee..

there is no simple way to make it dashed in PS, the best way to do it would b to make the text in Freehand or Illustrator, convert it to paths and then make it a dashed stroke and save as an eps to import in2 PS

[Tinusch]

It amazes me how many basic features are not included in PS. I'm still using PS4.0, so I don't know what's changed in 7.0, but in 4.0 there are no shape tools (circles, squares and the like), the stroke only goes up to size 16 (making it worthless for huge resolutions), and there are hardly any distortion controls, aside from the normal skewing and stretching. Text only goes up to 240 (again, useless for large resolutions), and the vector capabilities are laughable, requiring me to open both Illustrator and PS simultaneously for any find of large text work. Sucks up my resources in about 20 minutes until neither program works anymore. What bothers me most about the lack of features is that it was obviously done to push Illustrator, and I don't really think that's right, for a huge paint program such as PS to be robbed of some basic, very important features just so the user will have to spend a few hundred on yet another program.

Some say I'm long-winded.

[HaRdC0rePixxX]

do what MaxKullich said, then make a snapshot while the marquee is on...
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[glody]

haha....true....but i am sometimes astonished at what photoshop DOESNT have...it will always be a photo editing program at heart *sigh*

think of it this way....if adobe decided to add all that stuff into photoshop....whats the point of purchasing adobe illustrator version whatever!?!?

[haohmaru]

photoshop is a pixel-based program. all those annoying vektor-functions ps6 and above have are not what photoshop should be.
if adobe really gets serious and fully integrates illustrator into photoshop which is rumored to happen until version ten, then goodbye to what has once been my personal most used program.
message to adobe: get rid of all that useless crap, fix the color burn/dodge tools(means: make them work like they did in ps5 again!) and make it store the history permanently into the psd-file(so that i am able to undo any step the next day as well) and you have an almost perfect program.
with emphasis on almost.
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[B0b]

that would b 1 mutha of a PSD file

as for the dashed lines, god if you can't use another app appart from PS, start learning..

[lorry]

� To make dotted/dash lines in Photoshop
In the option bar hit the edit brush button and then change the roundness of the brush to make a dash/dot. To get the spaces between strokes increase the spacing percentage. Higher the Spacing the further apart the dote will be.
Hope this helps.

[oDD]

PHOTOSHOP 4 EVER !!

well i came up with something like this :/ probably there is a better way for doing this


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[Kingofcups]

THIS IS WHAT YOU DO!!!
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make a selection
save this selection
Convert the selection to a path
select a brush and give it spacing (brush tab -> brush tip shapes -> spacing)
stroke the path with this brush
load your original selection
Select->modify->border, say two pixels or whatever
Select inverse
delete.
Done.
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Better yet, use Adobe illustrator
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