any way to get symmetry in photoshop?

ZacD

Just thought it'd be useful for making modeling sheets and designing characters

Isaiah Sherman

Interactive symmetry? Not that I know of. You can just draw half of the character, duplicate your layer with the art, then go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal.

Then just line them up and you've got symmetry. Is that what you mean?

renderhjs

or make a macro script - though yeah thats very limited.

ZacD

I was hoping for Interactive symmetry

Isaiah Sherman

Interactive symmetry would be amazing.

jocose

Haiasi wrote: »

OMFGBBQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sean VanGorder

New zBrush has 2D sketching with interactive symmetry, then you can go straight to modeling over top of it.

gaganjain

http://al.chemy.org/ Nice thing to doing thumbnail/designing for characters

Isaiah Sherman

Wow, I watched the video on the front page of that thing. I'm downloading that program right now. Getting such random shapes will speed up my concept process astronomically.

CrazyMatt

Always a pleasure seeing what Andrew Jones does when it comes to doodling shapes!

Alchemy looks pretty neat.

Steve Schulze

ZBrush's 2d painting tools are quite nice for concepting with. Plenty of options there including the symmetry that you're after.

Avanthera

dunno, I really like autodesks sketchbook pro, very nice drawing tools, very smooth,
and has resetable symmetry axis. closest thing to paper i've found so far.
only seventy bucks off of amazon.

Rhinokey

i'd love to see a few things like this put into photoshop,, symetry would be nice, but i would kill to have photoshop do the ~ pan auto tiling that zbrush can do,, that would make me love things

achillesian

Rhinokey wrote: »

i'd love to see a few things like this put into photoshop,, symetry would be nice, but i would kill to have photoshop do the ~ pan auto tiling that zbrush can do,, that would make me love things

seconding both of these,

i make tiling textures in zbrush because of this, but there still no color layers, FML

whoever picks up the other feature first wins.

so either zbrush needs color layers so i can do all my texturing there

or photoshop needs symmetry and the auto tiling

ZacD

O.o Auto tilling would be sweet, maybe someone could write a plugin?

leslievdb

from what i can find brushactions arn`t recorded anywhere you could catch them.
What you could do is make an active listener tool in for example c++ that catches a mousemove from clickstart tot clickend and then redo it after the mouserelease with an offset so you get the symmetry effect.

you could also get a timer in there to define if it was a normal click or if it was a stroke of some sort (adjusting sliders with your mouse would be viewed as a stroke so i don`t know what to do with that )

I even think you could use a wacom api to catch the mouseevents to then get the result you want with the same pressure, opacity etc... applied to the brush

the offset for the exact symmetry would be done by getting the screensize - the mousecoordinates
the only problem with that would be that you should make sure you have your canvas centered to the screen or you use a slidebar to adjust the offset (you could draw a line over the entire screen during adjustment so you see where you are setting the center)

i`m probably going to adjust this post some more if i come up with some more problems