'Spirographic' brushes This is our fifth exploration into the Paint Engine in Adobe Photoshop 7. Since so many of the remaining parameters in this program are self-explanatory, I thought we'd break away for a while from simple feature explanations to a more practical look at what you can do with some of the Paint Engine's dynamics-in this case directionality for creating geometric and "Spirographic" line effects. The goal of this particular tutorial is to work with various directionality settings in Photoshop 7 to create two sorts of effects: intertwining lines and "Spirographic" patterns, similar to what you could produce. | Part 5 Delving into directionality to create Spirographic brushes This is our fifth exploration into the Paint Engine in Adobe Photoshop 7. Since so many of the remaining parameters in this program are self-explanatory I thought we d break away for a while from simple feature explanations to a more practical look at what you can do with some of the Paint Engine s dynamics-in this case directionality for creating geometric and Spirographic line effects. The goal of this particular tutorial is to work with various directionality settings in Photoshop 7 to create two sorts of effects intertwining lines and Spirographic patterns similar to what you could produce with a Hasbro Spirograph game. That is effects that produce repeating overlapping lines like meshes. This needn t be applied simply to lines however. You can use this same trick on ore complex brushes for producing repeating but shifting patterns out of any brush tip shape including images. In the end we ll wind up with a paint brush that can accomplish this effect interactively by simple freehand drawing or through path stroking. Creating line-effect brushes Since the goal of this tutorial is to produce brushes that create line effects we ll begin with the creation of a single-pixel-wide brush. But again you can use any brush tip shape for this process. Later in this tutorial we ll look at more Spirographic brushes as well. Open Photoshop and create a new document. Switch to the Single-Column Marquee Tool and click somewhere in your canvas. Then choose Edit Stroke. In the dialog that pops up enter a one-pixel stroke width using black as the stroke color. 22 Deselect your column Command-D Macintosh Control-D Windows and you should be left with a simple vertical line. 8 0 0 Untitled-1 @ 100 Layer 1. RGB J J. . . . 5Ö . . . bộõ. . . 150. . . 2Ọ0. . 250 . Ĩ3Ộ0. . 1350. . . 400. 450. 0 J 0 7 Ộ- 7 Tj 5 7 u 7 F 0 0 7 IJ 7 i i a WZSSSSSSWZSSK a aavaaaaaavaaaaa wZSSSSSSSSSSSS laaaaavaaaaaavaa . WSSSSm sÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ .
