Brush Tool Produces Sectioned Line

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July 25, 2017
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Here's what a line drawn with the Brush Tool looks like:

What can I do to get a solid line instead of one composed of a series of sections?

I'm running Photoshop CS2 in Win 10.

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Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

If you indeed want too use the Pencil Tool you could decrease the Spacing.

c.pfaffenbichler

Correct answer

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If you indeed want too use the Pencil Tool you could decrease the Spacing.

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JacquesBDAAuthor

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Thanks BarbBinder and c.pfaffenbichler ~

I hadn't known about the Spacing slider.

Isn't there a line tool for solid lines? I tried the Line Tool, but it too looks sectioned when drawn as a diagonal

Barb Binder

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The key here is to remember that Photoshop images are based on a square pixel grid. When you draw a straight line (H or V) the line is drawn right on the grid. When you draw a diagonal line, Photoshop softens the edges with lighter pixels (this is called anti-aliasing) to avoid the look that you showed us in your very first screen shot. This is the difference between the Pencil and the Brush tool, but the way. Look closely at my second screen shot (enlarging the left side of both lines in the first screen shot), everything is drawn by coloring in whole pixels, so the grey pixels are added to soften the diagonal lines. If you have enough pixels per inch (resolution), you don't see them, unless you zoom in. Here's a post I wrote for my students a long time ago—though still valid today: Adobe Photoshop: Can You Define Anti-Aliasing? - Rocky Mountain Training.