It's
easy to draw straight lines, using the Line tool.
Whatever your current brush is, it can be drawn along a perfect
straight line with the line tool. (also called Linear tool).
Keyboard
shortcut: v (as in vector)
But can you easily make a horizontal line, or a vertical one?
Let's take a look at some options:
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When you use the
Linear tool, whatever your currently active brush is, that's what gets
'thrown' along the linear path.
If it's an airbrush, it'll be a clean airbruhed straight line.
However, if it's flowers with random poition, it may follow the line's
straight path, but it will still have randomness in the flower's
positions.
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In the
case of crisp, sharp brushes, like pen, pencil or the simle brush, it
may be relatively easy to line up the rubberband line in such a way
that there's no jaggies (stair steps) and it must be horizontal (or
vertical).
But it's not easy if you have a high resolution screen.
The staircasing becomes more difficult to see or eliminate because
we're drawing a dashed line, not a solid rubberband.
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The Display Settings panel
open the Display Setting panel:
menu: Windows
> Display Setting...
This tool lets you do a few things. ne thing i to display a grid which
you can use to manually and visually use as a reference markers. This
is the "Visible grid"
Even more, you can use it to force the grid into locking down the mouse
poition of the painted brush to a discreet set of values along the
grid. That's the "Drawing Grid"
And there's also rulers and artist guides.
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Here's the Visible
Grid enabled, and with rulers enabled too, but WITHOUT DRAWING GRID,
i.e. without grid snapping:
You can still freely draw any way you wish: (color = blue)
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Below is the same
path in the brush stroke but rendered with Drawing
grid ENABLED.
(and color red) The brush is stuck against the nearest
grid lines as it progresses along the brush stroke's path:
Note that it's not strictly going to the nearest grid element: it
drifts to the nearest one in the upper-left direction.
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With a little bit of practice and a good choice of brush, you can draw
diagonal stairs in a single brush stroke from lower left to upper
right. You can also draw along vertical or horizontal lines.
However, some 'knots' may apear along the grid points:
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If
you now use the
Linear tool again, while Drawing Grid (snapping) is still enabled, you
can easily create perfectly horizontal or vertical lines.
<== Here's the result after turning off
the visible grid.
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