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Inspiring
April 5, 2011
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P: Support for true Dashed and Dotted strokes

  • April 5, 2011
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Enable dashed strokes

18 replies

Inspiring
June 7, 2012


Love having this feature, but when I have more than one single line segment created with the pen tool (not a tiny rectangle created with the line tool) the dashed lines act as if the single line is a box and double up (stroke on outside, shown) or appear to be a solid line (middle stroke) or disappear (inside stroke).

I want to have multiple lines on a single layer so I don't have to edit multiple layers to make changes. Single / solo lines work fine.

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PS Extended CS6 version 13.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.8
Inspiring
February 9, 2012
it's awesome! but i have a question. can we convert these dotted or dashed outlines into shape? if not, there will be problem when scaling image if photoshop try to aspect thickness of path.
Participant
February 9, 2012
Great stuff!
PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 9, 2012
Some of you will be happy to see this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfL02...
Inspiring
February 2, 2012
Just found this discussion...I recently upgraded from PS CS 1 to CS 5.1 (talk about late!) and noticed when I use a solid brush with the Wacom, it kept appearing as a dotted line!

Drove me crazy as I could not get a solid drawn line. Then noticed that when I check the "Spacing" box as Brent originally suggested, I get my solid line. Problem is, I have to check every single brush variation/size (hard brush, soft brush, 1, 2, 3, and so on) to get it. That sounds ridiculous. There must be a way to get that spacing bar checked as a default, isn't there?

Any help gratefully appreciated. (Meantime, all those wishing to draw with a dotted line, you got your wish, at least somewhat!)

Thanks,
Mike
Inspiring
November 19, 2011
It would be better if it would be shape not brush.
Inspiring
November 15, 2011
Dear Adobe Gripe #7084

"The people have spoken... dotted lines in photoshop (pixel perfect ideally) please!"
Inspiring
November 10, 2011
It would certainly be a nice addition.

I actually wrong an article on creating dotted and dashed lines in Photoshop this morning. http://iceflowstudios.com/2011/articl...

Might help a bit, but I agree, I would love to see this implemented in a future version of Photoshop.
Inspiring
November 10, 2011
It is the same thing if the code used to create this capability can be used in both scenarios, but the current stroke functionality within the layer style dialog is very distinct and different from the line tool.
Inspiring
November 10, 2011
yeah, it really does amount to the same request as this one.