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Geek Culture / Photoshop... its weakness...

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Arkheii
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Posted: 1st Apr 2004 17:10
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Anyone else have a pen tablet? When I use my pen tablet with Photoshop and I draw circles/curves really fast, it comes up all "edgy" and polygonal, not a smooth curve (I'm talking about the actual shape of the curve, _not_ jagged edges/aliasing). When I use Corel Painter and I draw curves, it's always smooth and near perfect. Anyone else have this prob in Photoshop (I guess you could try drawing circles using the mouse)? I'm thinking that maybe PS doesn't have mouse/stylus input smoothing that works as well as Painter's. This is PS7 btw, in case anyone out there doesn't have the same problem with PS:CS.


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Mussi
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Posted: 1st Apr 2004 18:03
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2004 03:40 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2004 03:45
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Use the brush tool not the pencil tool. Your circles will be more natural. Set your flow rate, and the circles will be dithered using pressure. Or, use the pen tool to make vector type strokes like you do in corel.

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indi
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2004 03:54 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2004 03:55
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if u want a good method for a perfect circle use the pen tool and then perform and action on that path with a stroke.


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Arkheii
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2004 09:23 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2004 09:28
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Erm, this is for drawing with a tablet. I sketch my lines fast so I need the curves as smooth as possible. Drawing, not photomanip.

@Mussi: I've already had the smoothing set a long time before. Still not as effective as Corel's smoothing.

I'm not talking about aliasing. This is all about the shape of the curve. If I was doing lineart, I'd use the pen tool, but it doesn't give the lines much depth.

Here's what I'm talking about:


http://www.freewebs.com/kabouter/ps_vs_cp.png

That's already with brush smoothing on.


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indi
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2004 10:28 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2004 10:29
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mine only does that if i work really fast, perhaps your tablet has some options or photoshops timer tick for interpreting the tablet is too slow.

it does it in mspaint as well here.


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las6
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well, if you could get it to use some other form of interpolation rather than linear, it could be very different.


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M00NSHiNE
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Ive got a tablet and I dont believe Ive had the problem, but I think my drivers arent working properly and I'll have to wait till I get home to test this out.

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Van B
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2004 15:56
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You will have options on your tablet to set the resolution and speed.

I have the same problem with my art package project - those jaggies are real hard to program around unless your into coding bezier curves to trace the flow of the pen - although without blowing my own trumpet: I'd have to move the pen pretty fast to get results as bad as that. I don't think PS is too great for that style of work, it's really more a touch-up package than an art package, so most people would use the pen for shading rather than line-art. Corel art packages were always better for vectors and line-art.


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