Making a Spiral

Can anyone tell me how to make a nice looking
Spiral in Photoshop?

I just need to go around about 3 times.

Drawing it by hand doesn't look so hot.

Thanks,

Andrew
Photoshop 6.0

There should be one in your Custom Shapes tool. On mine, it's in the custom shape file called "All." I think is came with Photoshop, but then I've downloaded hundreds of custom shapes from the Adobe Exchange (http://share.studio.adobe.com/)

Peadge :-)

"Andrew" wrote in message

Can anyone tell me how to make a nice looking
Spiral in Photoshop?

I just need to go around about 3 times.

Drawing it by hand doesn't look so hot.

Thanks,

Andrew
Photoshop 6.0

Andrew wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to make a nice looking
Spiral in Photoshop?

I just need to go around about 3 times.

Drawing it by hand doesn't look so hot.

Thanks,

Andrew
Photoshop 6.0

There is a spiral shape in the Custom Shapes. Or, it could be done by making a line and applying Filter>Distort>Twirl and erasing half of the spiral,but I would use the Spiral Tool in Freehand. Illustrator may have something similar.

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Peadge wrote:

There should be one in your Custom Shapes tool. On mine, it's in the custom shape file called "All." I think is came with Photoshop, but then I've downloaded hundreds of custom shapes from the Adobe Exchange (http://share.studio.adobe.com/)

Nope. Ain't got that shape. :(

There was a nice pair of "feet", however. :)

If you're feeling generous, maybe you could email it to me.

panospace at hotmail.com

Thanks,

Andrew

Andrew wrote:

Peadge wrote:

There should be one in your Custom Shapes tool. On mine, it's in the custom
shape file called "All." I think is came with Photoshop, but then I've downloaded hundreds of custom shapes from the Adobe Exchange (http://share.studio.adobe.com/)

Nope. Ain't got that shape. :(

There was a nice pair of "feet", however. :)

If you're feeling generous, maybe you could email it to me.
panospace at hotmail.com

Thanks,

Andrew

What version of Photoshop? Do you have all the Shapes loaded?

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edjh wrote:

What version of Photoshop? Do you have all the Shapes loaded?

Photoshop 6.0

I loaded a file called "Custom Shapes.csh", which was the only ..csh file I could find. It was in the Custom Shapes folder.

Andrew

Andrew wrote:

edjh wrote:

What version of Photoshop? Do you have all the Shapes loaded?

Photoshop 6.0

I loaded a file called "Custom Shapes.csh", which was the only .csh file I could find. It was in the Custom Shapes folder.
Andrew

Unfortunately, Custom Shapes in 7 and 8 are not backward compatible to 6.

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Try this:
First open a new file at about the desired size and with the pencil tool draw a line from the center of the canvas to the edge, holding down the shift key to keep it straight. Then go to Filter>Distort>Twirl and run the slider all the way to one or the other side. Apply this and it will give you a nice spiral. When I did this I got a line that was dotted, so I selected the line and stroked it , which turned it to a solid line. My original line was 10 pixels wide and the stroke was 15 pixels. When selecting the line I used the magic wand and then Select>Similar to get the whole line. My original new file was about 6 X 6 inches. Once you have the spiral you can copy it and paste it as a layer and resize it at will.

"John Forest" wrote in message

Try this:
First open a new file at about the desired size and with the

pencil tool

draw a line from the center of the canvas to the edge, holding down

the

shift key to keep it straight. Then go to Filter>Distort>Twirl and

run the

slider all the way to one or the other side. Apply this and it will

give

you a nice spiral. When I did this I got a line that was dotted, so I selected the line and stroked it , which turned it to a solid line.

My

original line was 10 pixels wide and the stroke was 15 pixels. When selecting the line I used the magic wand and then Select>Similar to

get the

whole line. My original new file was about 6 X 6 inches. Once you

have the

spiral you can copy it and paste it as a layer and resize it at will.

Interesting. I tried what you said except I set the brush size to 9 pixels and then used the pencil tool. The resulting spiral was not dotted. Cool trick.