Now this must be simple!

Repetitive drawings (or pattern!) are best done using the Pattern Layer Effects 😉

– Create a document (say 2 px high, 1 px wide)
– paint 1 px black
– ctrl-a for selecting all
– Edit / define pattern, name it… (you can close the 2 px document without saving now)
– create a layer with solid fill (like all black or all white) in your composition
– apply Layer Effects and choose the proper pattern with Pattern Overlay.

Alternatively:

– Draw 1 single horizontal line on it’s own layer
– Alt+Shift+Arrow down (repeat this for as many duplicate lines you want!)

Greets

Littleboy

"Rommel" wrote in message

How do I paint several 1 pix straight horizontal lines onto a picture equidistant in the vertical direction – ideally on the same layer –

quickly,

easily and accurately?

I finished off painting 4 horizontal lines onto one layer as best I could and then duplicating this layer 3 times (for a total of 16 horizontal

lines)

and moving the three layers accordingly. Of course, any error in my first ‘master’ layer also get duplicated. But this highly inaccurate way can not be the best, surely.

I am using PS 7.0

R

the transline and transtone plugins from flaming pear might be helpful. http://www.flamingpear.com/download.html

they are free

"Rommel" wrote in message

How do I paint several 1 pix straight horizontal lines onto a picture equidistant in the vertical direction – ideally on the same layer –

quickly,

easily and accurately?

I finished off painting 4 horizontal lines onto one layer as best I could and then duplicating this layer 3 times (for a total of 16 horizontal

lines)

and moving the three layers accordingly. Of course, any error in my first ‘master’ layer also get duplicated. But this highly inaccurate way can not be the best, surely.

I am using PS 7.0

R

Rommel wrote:

How do I paint several 1 pix straight horizontal lines onto a picture equidistant in the vertical direction – ideally on the same layer – quickly, easily and accurately?

I finished off painting 4 horizontal lines onto one layer as best I could and then duplicating this layer 3 times (for a total of 16 horizontal lines) and moving the three layers accordingly. Of course, any error in my first ‘master’ layer also get duplicated. But this highly inaccurate way can not be the best, surely.

I am using PS 7.0

R

Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern is one way. There are many others, as mentioned.

—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html

Littleboy, I tried both your ideas. Unfortunately neither worked:

1) I got to the layer effects, clicked on pattern overlay, but couldn’t find a way to change the pattern – must be there somewhere, but I couldn’t find it!
2) I tried creating a line and continually clicking on Alt+Shift+Arrow down but all I seemed to be doing was creating layers with no lines in them – I guess I’m missing something here too!

but…you pointed me in the right direction with recommendation 1). I completed my task by defining a 1*9 pattern using a transparent bg, selecting a rectangular area on a new layer and then filling this area with my pattern. I could then change the opacity of the layer giving me the desired effect! Of course, this technique allows me to alter the pitch of the lines just by changing the size of the single pixel wide graphic. Brilliant!

Thanks.

"Littleboy" <littleboy_at_emp3mail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

Repetitive drawings (or pattern!) are best done using the Pattern Layer Effects 😉

– Create a document (say 2 px high, 1 px wide)
– paint 1 px black
– ctrl-a for selecting all
– Edit / define pattern, name it… (you can close the 2 px document

without

saving now)
– create a layer with solid fill (like all black or all white) in your composition
– apply Layer Effects and choose the proper pattern with Pattern Overlay.
Alternatively:

– Draw 1 single horizontal line on it’s own layer
– Alt+Shift+Arrow down (repeat this for as many duplicate lines you want!)
Greets

Littleboy

"Rommel" wrote in message

How do I paint several 1 pix straight horizontal lines onto a picture equidistant in the vertical direction – ideally on the same layer –

quickly,

easily and accurately?

I finished off painting 4 horizontal lines onto one layer as best I

could

and then duplicating this layer 3 times (for a total of 16 horizontal

lines)

and moving the three layers accordingly. Of course, any error in my

first

‘master’ layer also get duplicated. But this highly inaccurate way can

not

be the best, surely.

I am using PS 7.0

R

Ruth, thanks – certainly some interesting free stuff – great input, although I couldn’t use your recommendation as I wasn’t able to alter the pitch of the lines.

But the transtone plug-in is superb for simulating semi-transparent gifs. Brilliant!

Thanks

"Ruth" schrieb im Newsbeitrag

the transline and transtone plugins from flaming pear might be helpful. http://www.flamingpear.com/download.html

they are free

"Rommel" wrote in message

How do I paint several 1 pix straight horizontal lines onto a picture equidistant in the vertical direction – ideally on the same layer –

quickly,

easily and accurately?

I finished off painting 4 horizontal lines onto one layer as best I

could

and then duplicating this layer 3 times (for a total of 16 horizontal

lines)

and moving the three layers accordingly. Of course, any error in my

first

‘master’ layer also get duplicated. But this highly inaccurate way can

not

be the best, surely.

I am using PS 7.0

R

Rommel wrote:

How do I paint several 1 pix straight horizontal lines onto a picture equidistant in the vertical direction – ideally on the same layer – quickly, easily and accurately?

There is a plug-in available at http://www.users.cloud9.net/~gparet/photoshop/ that might help you do that.

-Greg.

Thanks for the i/p edjh, but the halftone pattern is just that – a pattern – it doesn’t give me my horizontal lines!

R
"edjh" schrieb im Newsbeitrag

Rommel wrote:

How do I paint several 1 pix straight horizontal lines onto a picture equidistant in the vertical direction – ideally on the same layer –

quickly,

easily and accurately?

I finished off painting 4 horizontal lines onto one layer as best I

could

and then duplicating this layer 3 times (for a total of 16 horizontal

lines)

and moving the three layers accordingly. Of course, any error in my

first

‘master’ layer also get duplicated. But this highly inaccurate way can

not

be the best, surely.

I am using PS 7.0

R

Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern is one way. There are many others, as mentioned.

—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html

Gregory,

Absolutely brilliant!

My prayers have been answered.

Thanks for the excellent product!

My postcard will be winging its way, your way soon……

R

PS
Is there any help anywhere? Not sure what I’d use a grid ‘path’ for. Also not sure what ‘Interpolation’ does. ‘Edge’ seems to put a box around the grid – is this right?

"Gregory Paret" schrieb im Newsbeitrag

Rommel wrote:

How do I paint several 1 pix straight horizontal lines onto a picture equidistant in the vertical direction – ideally on the same layer –

quickly,

easily and accurately?

There is a plug-in available at

http://www.users.cloud9.net/~gparet/photoshop/

that might help you do that.

-Greg.

ah, i know 🙁
they are most useful for creating that kind of effect on web graphics. i find the easiest way to do this sort of thing is to draw the lines (takes a second) in an illustration/vector type program like illustrator or corel draw.

much quicker do do this sort of thing in a vector prog.

and make sure you DON’T anti-alias them when you export them.

Ruth

"Rommel" wrote in message

Ruth, thanks – certainly some interesting free stuff – great input,

although

I couldn’t use your recommendation as I wasn’t able to alter the pitch of the lines.

But the transtone plug-in is superb for simulating semi-transparent gifs. Brilliant!

Thanks

"Ruth" schrieb im Newsbeitrag

the transline and transtone plugins from flaming pear might be helpful. http://www.flamingpear.com/download.html

they are free

"Rommel" wrote in message

How do I paint several 1 pix straight horizontal lines onto a picture equidistant in the vertical direction – ideally on the same layer –

quickly,

easily and accurately?

I finished off painting 4 horizontal lines onto one layer as best I

could

and then duplicating this layer 3 times (for a total of 16 horizontal

lines)

and moving the three layers accordingly. Of course, any error in my

first

‘master’ layer also get duplicated. But this highly inaccurate way can

not

be the best, surely.

I am using PS 7.0

R

Rommel wrote:

Thanks for the i/p edjh, but the halftone pattern is just that – a pattern – it doesn’t give me my horizontal lines!

Actually it does. The dropdown gives you a choice of dots, lines or concentric circles. But Greg’s plugin is excellent too.
—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html

I have tried in vane to get skyies correct on natural pictures. For some reason photoshop 5 will not blur, smudge or do anything helpfull with grainy skyies (despeckle helps a little sometimes). I have replaced a sky with a blue and then did a gradient fill and it ended up very nice in photoshop. When saved it looks like a rainbow. So, my questions are; Why the rainbow on a gradient fill and how can I homogenize a natural sky?

I’m not sure what your natural sky problems are???

The jpeg compression can aggravate the rainbow effect. Try higher quality with saveas or save as a tif.

Jack wrote:

I have tried in vane to get skyies correct on natural pictures. For some reason photoshop 5 will not blur, smudge or do anything helpfull with grainy skyies (despeckle helps a little sometimes). I have replaced a sky with a blue and then did a gradient fill and it ended up very nice in photoshop. When saved it looks like a rainbow. So, my questions are; Why the rainbow on a gradient fill and how can I homogenize a natural sky?