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Photoshop and shapes
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I'm very familiar with Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. What I'm trying to do, though, is create a map. I can work with the pen tool like nobody's business, but I can't seem to figure out a way to do the following without it being extremely tedious:
1) Roads. I want roads. Do I need to draw the roads as a rectangle and carefully build them out that way, or is there a way to just draw a path, then tell it to make that path X pixels thick in Y colour, with this stroke, etc?
2) Dotted lines. This seems like a no brainer but I can't get it going. Is there a way to do dotted lines similar to the above, or am I forced to create a path and then add a text layer to that path with a bunch of dashes?
1) Roads. I want roads. Do I need to draw the roads as a rectangle and carefully build them out that way, or is there a way to just draw a path, then tell it to make that path X pixels thick in Y colour, with this stroke, etc?
2) Dotted lines. This seems like a no brainer but I can't get it going. Is there a way to do dotted lines similar to the above, or am I forced to create a path and then add a text layer to that path with a bunch of dashes?
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ed: I haven't used it in a while but I'm pretty sure a dashed-line stroke is a default option
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
edit for usefulness: if you have to do it in P-shop, you should be able to customize a brush and use that brush to stroke the path, which should work for both of your issues, though it's not probably as ideal as the AI/PS hybrid. Here's a quick link I dug up that explains the basic idea.
I never thought of using Illustrator and bringing it back in....
I still don't see how to use dotted lines this way.. maybe a stepped brush.
Photoshops' vector tools are butts.
Choose a circular brush, remove pressure sensitivity, and increase the spacing of the brush so it basically paints a dotted line. And then as Knight said, right click, stroke path.
But still, illustrators tools are better for this
This is the easiest way to make roads. The set up is a pain in the butt, however, it will save you time afterwards.
This thing is a freaking beast, covering 56km and over 3,200 acres
Here is a tiny part of it so far: