What are the pixel dimensions of the images? Are they all the same size, or various? Are you viewing them at 100%?
the images are usually around 1200 height, though sometimes they can be up to 2500. I view them at various percentages.
Do you see a variance in border size when viewed at 100%?
Yes. Since 3px pencil is pretty small and shows up as a round dot, I ofter zoom in so I can see what I am doing. I notice that when zooming in, sometimes I have to zoom in further to see the pencil pointer change into a square.
I may be missing something here, but . . .
What’s the Image Resolution on the pictures (height x width x resolution)? Are they all the same? A three pixel border on an image 1,000 pixels wide is going to look significantly different than a three pixel border on an image 50 pixels wide.
That said, why are you drawing the borders? Couldn’t you Select All then Select > Modify > Contract (set to 3 pixels), Then Select > Inverse and do an Edit > Fill to make your border?
The images are usually 1200px height, around 830px width, and 72px resolution.
I should have mentioned this earlier, but I draw my own comic book, and the borders are not for the whole page as that method you posted is intended for, but for single panels. I have a quick way of doing them. And it’s not just the borders that lost the intensity that 3px should have, but I assume all my painting tools.
I would give you a comparison pic, but photoshop seems to be working correctly now, even after a restart. Not that it hasn’t worked before. I could be doing 7 pages, and then on the 8 it would just stop working correctly (the pixel problem that is). I mentioned before that I also had a text tool problem, where sometimes I had to double the size of text where previously 14px worked just fine. So I still think it’s an all around px problem.
Have any of you heard of a pixel problem like this before, and should I just reinstall? The border problem is a big issue because I can’t just double the size. The borders become rounded, and I really don’t like that (not to mention obviously not at the same size as before). I really just want my photoshop to be accurate.
Oops . . . missed posts 1 & 2 where most of my questions were asked & answered (too early, not enough caffeine — D-oh!).
If the problem crops up again, before you reinstall, have you tried trashing prefs? (see the FAQ section if you don’t know how.)
reinstalling and keeping your old prefs leaves you in the same place as before you reinstalled.
@OldBob
Thanks. I trashed my prefs and things are still working, so hopefully it will continue working and I won’t have to reinstall.
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