[mac65]

I just got a trail version of Photoshop, it is supposed to have all options enabled. I've have been using Paint shop Pro for awhile now and it has a feature that allows you to draw a free hand curved line. It will anti-alias it and you can adjust the curve tracking on it. It takes an average of the path you draw and when you end the line it draws a smooth line along the basic path. This gets rid of smal imperfections of movement and allows you to draw smooth free flowing lines even with a mouse. Does Photo Shop have anything similar to this? I've played around with the pen tool but it's not the same. I've looked through alot of tutorails but can't find any information on this. I really like PhotoShop but find it hard to draw nice curved lines using a mouse. Any help would be appreciated.

[SporQ]

use the lasso tool. when it makes a selection, you can right click in it an select "convert to path" then you can use the path tools to edit it if need be.

SporQ

[mac65]

Yeah I know I could do that or use the pen tool to drag and adjust the line, but when doing things like hair or where you are drawing many different lines it would be nice if you could just draw nice smooth lines without having to minipulate them individually. I don't know if you've ever used PsP it's kind of hard to explian how the freehand curved line thing works, all I know is I find it extremely usefull. I was hoping Photoshop had something similar that I just havn't figured out yet.

[Collosimo]

I have PSP and I know what you mean. I dont have Photoshop though. This is a vector tool imbedded in PSP. The Photoshop equivalent Pentool, may not have this feature. I dunno. Adobe Illustrator probably would though. Thing is that PSP has more vector drawing options than PS, simply because PSP doesnt have a partner like illustrator.

Any PS guru's know if the vector drawing tools have curve tracking!?

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/COLLOSIMO

[Kaligula]

If I understand what you're saying, no, Photoshop doesn't have that feature, but both Illustrator and Flash do.

[mac65]

If I can figure out how to post images on my server I'll post some examples of lines drawn in PsP using the freehand line feature.