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TheJiggyMonster β Smooth Lines Tutorial - Photoshop CS5
Published: 2012-09-09 01:09:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 54638; Favourites: 340; Downloads: 232
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Tutorial of how I make my lines so smooth in Photoshop CS5.I am not sure if this works in any other versions of Photoshop, but there is probably a similar process.
Please comment below if you have any questions!
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Whenever I try to select my lines, it just keeps selecting the whole area, then saying "No pixels were selected" when I try to do Inverse Selection. Am I doing something wrong?
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Hej, I've created a global pen smoothing app for mac OS X. Check it out -Β Hej Stylus!
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You madam, are a gentlewoman and a scholar. This was so magnificently helpful I've added it to my custom list of saved Actions.
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This was immensely helpful. Thanks a million!
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annnnnd downloaded for later!!! thanks for making photoshop easier for me to draw in :3
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when i right click the path, the option to fill it has been grayed out and cant be selected. o_0
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ok i have no idea how i made it work. random clicking back and forth between the tabs suddenly brought it to life, but it filled in whole chunks of picture that were not part of the lineart lol
aaah technology hates me!
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if you have illustrator because you have the suite or adobe online, you can tell it to live trace and then expand. very similar process, but you have a control box to adjust for different results. You can then move the whole thing over into photoshop.
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no help gor sketchbook users? Β I am using the new ink happily actually....but that is still not as productive Γ€s your method. Β Anyone?
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Hi there. This tutorial worked for me once, but now the lines won't fill. I re-followed this to the T, but the path lines just won't fill. Do you have any idea why this might be?
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This was a life saver, at least for a photoshop beginner! thanks so much Β
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I have a problem. i work with Ps CS6 and after i did all of this the lines are not smooth and they have some kind of grey outline that makes it look horrible. i selected black colour but it doesnt work. please help
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This is an older post but in case you still have the same problem, you need to delete the work path once it is filled. So you create your work path from selection, then right-click and fill work path. After that you drag your work path to the bin, and it will leave only the outlines 
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Could you provide me a screenshot with what you're experiencing?
-Jiggy
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gonna try this out on my next work. Thank you so much!!!
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I was looking for a way to make smoother looking lines for a while now and I just came across this! Thank you so much for posting such a wonderful tutorial! I really find this helpful and useful. 
Thank you! ~
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No problem! I'm glad it helps.
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Do you know how I could do this in photoshop elements 8? There is no "paths" tab (that I can find)
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Sorry for the late reply!
I'm not entirely sure that there are paths included in Photoshop Elements, or at least this feature of the paths tool.
I suggest looking online for any helpful tips!
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Thank you!
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That's awesome! I need to practice my lineart more often.
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this helped me with my most recent piece. thanks alot!
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No problem, glad it could help!
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Interesting. I know GIMP has something similar to this, but not sure whether or not it will do exactly the same thing. I will have to mess around and see what happens.Β
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Let me know if you can find a similar way to do this in GIMP! I'd love to know how.
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Alright, after some experimentation, I've discovered that it's pretty much the same thing up until the part where you are converting the selection to a path. You go to the Paths tab like in this tutorial, and then.....
1. Look for the button that says Selection to Path (in roughly the same area as shown in this tutorial), and hold SHIFT while clicking that button.Β
2. This opens a window with a bajillion slider bars. The value you want to edit is named Error Threshold; set it to 2-4 pixels like in this tutorial. Click OK.Β
3. Now you have a path named Selection. Unfortunately, GIMP will not let you fill a path directly, so you have to turn this path back into a selection. Still in the Paths tab, click the button called Path to Selection.Β
4. Choose the bucket fill tool. Under Tool Options for the bucket fill, you may want to have Fill whole selection checked, just to make lining several disconnected objects easier. (Tool Options is most likely docked under the Toolbox; if not, go to Windows -> Dockable Dialogs -> Tool Options)
5. Fill the selection with black.Β
6. Turn off your selections/paths/whatever and tada!
(written out for the benefit of anybody else reading the comments)
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hey, tried you method, since i cant get it to work in PS, the only issue is, since it was drawn in PS, the lines are anti aliased, but selecting the RGB (even with transparency) does not include the AA bits, do you have any fixes?
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I'll make sure to keep this on the deviation for gimp users! Thank you so much, you're much more experienced with gimp than I am!
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No problem
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Thank you so much for this. I usually have to mess around in Illustrator. This might make it much easier
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Let me know if you need any help, eh?
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I'll try it out for my next drawing and let you know how it went... Unless I throw my laptop out the window, of course
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if you have illustrator because you have the suite or adobe online, you can tell it to live trace and then expand. very similar process, but you have a control box to adjust for different results. You can then move the whole thing over into photoshop.
live trace appears on the upper bar when you have some art selected, fyi.
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I hope it helps!
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This is actually really cool! I'll have to give it a go. I hate doing lineart because of how hard it is to get it to look neat, so I'll give it a try next time I draw something with thicker lines. :>
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I'd love to see it!
I find that if you make your picture pretty big with fairly thick lines it works best, so don't be afraid to use the entire page!
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dude..dude..DUDE YOU ARE A GENIUS THANK YOU
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I literally can't live without this cheat ok.
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I can understand why, my poor litte bro has trouble with messy lines (he's just starting to learn), if he had something to smooth out his lines it would be a life saver for him. I should show him this 8D
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