I've been wondering this for a while: Does Photoshop have an equivalent to zb3's lazybrush, or something for drawing clean/smooth lines outside of working in vector?
Other then using fast swooshy lines, your best bet would be to use paths. That's one of my gripes with photoshop, you'd think being slow and careful with a line would be good but that's when it looks all squigly. BUT if you do use vector, I actually like the way FLASH handles lines... you can be slow and careful and get the exact line that you want. Unfortunately I don't think FLASH would be suitable AT ALL for texture work in games.
I kind of pissed that that adobe hasn't added a constrain to path function like painter 10 did. You make a path and you can benefit from using your wacom. I'm not sure how Painter handles it, I really dislike that program even though they added a more standard ui to it but love how you can mix things with the brushes.
The point was to do it outside of working in vector. I've been wanting something like a lazy brush in Photoshop as well for some time. As conventient vectors are, I can't stand using them when I'm trying to be "organic" and do some digital painting in Photoshop.
I just tried Painter X demo and it seems to have gotten a lot better since the last time I used it, you might like the constrain to path option they have. Of course a lazy brush like what zbrush 3 had would be better.
Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) has an actual lazybrush featured built in, and it's great. I'm a total Illustrator-fan, but Inkscape is a lot cooler for its brushes, and it has a few cool little features.
Inkscape is a vector editor though. Of course it has the option to export as a bitmap, but that seems to be going way out of your way just to get some good brush strokes. But it could work well if you're drawing cartoons or something.
Man, I thought it was just me with those squiggly lines in PS. Whew. But I had hoped it was also because my Graphire is slippery...
i dloaded inkscape to try it out, i like doing cartoons, and was curious about lazy brush, what is it called in inkscape i can't find any mention of it
It's just the calligraphy brush on the left toolbar. Try increasing the "Mass" variable in the toolbar just above the canvas, it's the variable furthest to the right. The more "massive" it is, the smoother the lines, and, well, the slower the lines are drawn. Kinda weird, but very handy for when careful line work is needed.
You might get frustrated when intersecting lines cancel each other out (you'll see what I mean)--just go to Fill and Stroke properties under the Object menu and click on the little heart-shaped icon in the upper right corner of the window (the solid one). You can change all sorts of parameters of the brush and add interesting effects, quite fun once you get the hang of the app's way of doing things.
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Man, I thought it was just me with those squiggly lines in PS. Whew. But I had hoped it was also because my Graphire is slippery...
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Also check the spacing setting on your brushes, I think PhotoShop's default is 25%, if you set it lower it will smooth out the brush strokes quite a bit.
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Yes, even has tilt, but I couldn't get it to work on my Graphire. Could also be a bug in the release I tried it with.
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Man, I thought it was just me with those squiggly lines in PS. Whew. But I had hoped it was also because my Graphire is slippery...
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Also check the spacing setting on your brushes, I think PhotoShop's default is 25%, if you set it lower it will smooth out the brush strokes quite a bit.
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Thanks, but I didn't notice a difference.
Don't the tips that come with the Intuos pens provide surface resistance akin to the friction provided by pencil and paper?
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Man, I thought it was just me with those squiggly lines in PS. Whew. But I had hoped it was also because my Graphire is slippery...
You might get frustrated when intersecting lines cancel each other out (you'll see what I mean)--just go to Fill and Stroke properties under the Object menu and click on the little heart-shaped icon in the upper right corner of the window (the solid one). You can change all sorts of parameters of the brush and add interesting effects, quite fun once you get the hang of the app's way of doing things.
Man, I thought it was just me with those squiggly lines in PS. Whew. But I had hoped it was also because my Graphire is slippery...
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Also check the spacing setting on your brushes, I think PhotoShop's default is 25%, if you set it lower it will smooth out the brush strokes quite a bit.
so no presure sensitivity?
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Yes, even has tilt, but I couldn't get it to work on my Graphire. Could also be a bug in the release I tried it with.
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Man, I thought it was just me with those squiggly lines in PS. Whew. But I had hoped it was also because my Graphire is slippery...
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Also check the spacing setting on your brushes, I think PhotoShop's default is 25%, if you set it lower it will smooth out the brush strokes quite a bit.
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Thanks, but I didn't notice a difference.
Don't the tips that come with the Intuos pens provide surface resistance akin to the friction provided by pencil and paper?