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klaura aka Laura is a girl, has been a member since April 24, 2008, has scored 279 submissions, giving an average score of 2.73.

Jun 25 '08 by klaura

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using wacom tablet for designs

I'm having trouble making LINE ART from my drawings. I want the best way to make nice solid line art that would be good for the screen printing.

I have Photoshop CS2 and I'm really good at it. I know how to use the pen tool and just recently purchased a Wacom Tablet. I'm trying to understand how to use the wacom tablet for line art, however. Doesn't the simulated pressure make several different shades which means many different colors (shades of grey) are being used?

How was this line art achieved?-
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what was the method?

I can pick up on any tutorial cause I'm really familiar with photoshop I just need someone to point me in the right direction please!

-Laura

mz. kat-ii on Jun 25 '08 at 1:21pm

hmmmmm i usually draw in illustrator, are u any good with it?

klaura on Jun 25 '08 at 1:27pm

nope. tried to use it before but I am so crippled at it. I'm going to art camp this summer and will learn there hopefully

mz. kat-ii on Jun 25 '08 at 1:29pm

at first i hated illustrator but after a while i found it a lot easier to draw in than photoshop....hope art camp helps, sounds like fun! what other kinds of stuff you doing there?

Steve The Great on Jun 25 '08 at 1:29pm

you can change what the pressure actually does I think in the brushes palette/panel/menu/whatever...you can set it to brush size or whatever

klaura on Jun 25 '08 at 1:33pm

I'm taking drawing, painting, digital illustration, and character animation. It's 4 weeks long so I better learn something! haha. It'll be fun :)

btw, how do I change it so there is no pressure simulation

fat pigeon on Jun 25 '08 at 1:35pm

Yeah, set the pressure sensitivity to brush size. Make sure your brush is at 100% opacity and flow. Should give you nice solid lines. Also, to make things a little cleaner, once you pick your brush size go to the options and set the spacing to 1 rather than the default 25.

klaura on Jun 25 '08 at 1:37pm

mm. thanks

=]

klaura on Jun 26 '08 at 10:36am

hey, actually I'm not sure how to get to the pressure sensitivity option. I have the brush size at 9 with 100% opacity and flow and spacing=1 but pressure sensitivity is still on. where do I change that?

zachary.edward on Jun 27 '08 at 12:41am

Go to the brushes menu and click on other dynamics. Where it says Opacity Jitter set the control to off and leave at 0%. If you want your line art to be a constant thickness then go to Shape Dynamics and set your Size Jitters control to off as well. Then just stroke the path with the brush as you normally would. Hope that helps ^o^

klaura on Jun 27 '08 at 9:48am

thanks so much =]

zachary.edward on Jun 27 '08 at 9:52pm

did it work for you?

klaura on Jun 28 '08 at 9:53am

yes. it's helped a lot! btw, when i still have the constant thickness on, does the line fade (as in go to greys) or does it stay solid and just get thinner?

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