Lines, as well, and other geometric elements, are an integral part of the work of the Photoshop wizard. Using lines, mesh, contours, segments of various shapes are created, the skeletons of complex objects are built.
Today's article will be fully dedicated to how you can create lines in Photoshop.
Creating lines
As we know from the course of school geometry, lines are straight, broken and curves.Straight
To create direct in Photoshop, there are several options using various tools. All major construction methods are given in one of the already existing lessons.
Lesson: Draw a straight line in Photoshop
Therefore, we will not linger in this section, and we will immediately move on to the next one.
Loan
The broken line consists of several straight segments, and can be closed, constituting a polygon. Based on this, there are a couple of ways to build it.
- Unlocked broken
- The easiest solution to create such a line is the pen tool. With it, we can portray anything, starting with a simple angle and ending with a complex polygon. Read the instrument in the article on our website.
Lesson: Pen tool in Photoshop - Theory and Practice
In order to achieve the result we need, it is enough to put several reference points on the canvas,
And then bring the resulting contour by one of the tools (read the lesson about the feather).
- Another option is to make a broken line of several straight lines. You can, for example, draw the initial element,
After that, by copying the layers (Ctrl + J) and the "Free Transformation" options, turned on by pressing the Ctrl + T keys, create the necessary figure.
As we said earlier, such a line is a polygon. The methods of constructing polygons are two - using the appropriate tool from the "Figure" group, or by creating an arbitrary shape, followed by stroke.
- Figure.
Lesson: Tools for creating figures in Photoshop
When applying this method, we obtain a geometric figure with equal angles and parties.
To get directly lines (contour), you must configure the stroke called "Stroke". In our case, it will be a solid barcode of the specified size and color.
After turning off the fill
We will receive the required result.
Such a figure can be deformed and rotated with the help of the same "free transformation".
- Straight lasso.
With this tool, you can build polygons of any configuration. After setting a few points, a dedicated area is created.
This selection should be circled, for which there is a corresponding function, which is caused by pressing the PCM on the canvas.
In the settings, you can select the color, size and position of the stroke.
To preserve the acute angles, the position is recommended to do "inside".
Curve
Curves have the same parameters as the broken, that is, can be closed and unclipped. You can draw a curve in several ways: tools "Feather" and "Lasso" using figures or selection.
- Unlocked
- Closed
Such a line can be depicted exclusively "pen" (with a circuit stroke), or "by hand". In the first case, a lesson will help us, the link to which is above, and in the second only a hard hand.
- Lasso.
This tool allows you to draw closed curves of any form (segments). Lasso creates a selection that, to obtain a line, must be included in a known manner.
- Oval area.
In this case, the result of our actions will be the circumference of the correct or ellipsis form.
For its deformation, it suffices to call "free transform" (Ctrl + T) and, after pressing the PCM, select the appropriate additional function.
On the mesh that appears, we will see markers, pulling for which, you can achieve the desired result.
It is worth noting that in this case the impact applies to the thickness of the line.
The following way will allow us to save all parameters.
- Figure.
We use the "Ellipse" tool and, applying the settings described above (as for a polygon), create a circle.
After deformation, we obtain the following result:
As you can see, the thickness of the line remained unchanged.
On this lesson on creating lines in Photoshop is over. We have learned how to create straight, broken and curves lines in different ways using various program tools.
You should not neglect the skills, since it is they who help build geometric shapes, contours, various grids and frames in the photoshop program.