Have you tried using the dash from the Text Tool?
Ian,
or adjust the ‘spacing’ for the tool
Hello Ian.
Posably this may do the job.
Use the brush tool but set the spacing to whatever suits, if you hold down the shift key while draging you will have a straight line of blobs of whatever brush shape, size and colour you chose.
Hmm, i must be learning something here to think of that. Regards
Malcolm
Thanks for the suggestions. The text dashes may work, but I need to draw the dashed lines at various angles, eg from ‘point’ A to ‘points’ B and C respectively, the three ‘points’ not being in a straight line. This would involve rotating the text dash lines after drawing them. It would seem far better if the line tool had aditional options like the other tools.
Malcolm, as I said, I tried the brush tools but the effect was not what was needed for the kind of drawing I’m working with.
If I had paper, ruler and pencil, I’d place the ruler at whatever angle was required then draw dashes along it with the pencil. That’s the effect I want.
I’ll go and have a look at that tutorial.
Regards,
Ian
Ian,
Have you tried this? Use the Pencil tool and click where you want the first dash to begin and then click at the other end while holding down the Shift key. This will give you a straight solid line. Then use the Eraser tool to remove parts of the solid line to create the dashes. This method allows you to fire the line at any angle you want.
Barb
Ian
If all else fails you can:
Move your photo to Microsoft Word. >Format > Picture > Layout > Behind text, this will also let you move your photo.
In the Drawing toolbar Select Line. Draw your line From Point A to Point B. Select format on the menu bar > AutoShape, here you can modify your line with dashes or other options.
HTH
Ben T
Ian,
As Imacgirl suggests, try using the pencil tool as she suggested, but change the tools spacing (in the options) so it forms the dash without having to fiddle with it (I think this should work).
Nancy,
Great idea, but unfortunately there are no spacing options for the Pencil Tool like the Brush has. He could try using a Hard Brush with a few pixels and then the spacing would be available in the Options Bar.
Barb
Imacgirl,
I appreciate the correction…
Nancy
hmm, there are spacing options in PE1 for the pencil tool…they took it out of PE2 ??
I just looked at my PSE 2, and I couldn’t find any way to change the spacing, just the size in pixels.
hmmm, very interesting indeed.
Gee, maybe this is why I kept my PSE 1! 🙂 Except I can’t think of any projects I need to do with a dotted line. I do like the thread on printing the grid, though, because I’d been wondering how to do that!
