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VmusicV
Inspiring
May 2, 2011
Question

Turn A Path Into A Rasterized Line

  • May 2, 2011
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Hi,

I am using CS2 (sorry.... I'm old skewl) - I created a path, and what I want to do is turn it into a rasterized line, rather than a vector line.

It seems I can not stroke the path, and even then I don't see how to turn a path, which is really a line (ok, set of points) into a set of squares, that is a rasterized line or curve.  I DO NOT want a shape, I have a line it is NOT ENCLOSED, it's a line......

I noticed that when I "select" the line using the paths pallette, photoshop extends the selection BEYOND the path to adjacent pixels...........how absurd

Is there anyway to create a rasterized line or rasterized curve from a vector path?

Thanks!!

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    Anonymous
    May 2, 2011

    If you created the path with the pen tool, are you not able to right click

    on the active path and choose stroke path or go to the paths palette

    and choose stroke path with the paint tool of your choice?

    Using the pen tool set for paths:

    MTSTUNER

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    VmusicVAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 2, 2011

    Hi,

    Thanks for your answer... it turns out there are quite a few "conditions" to get things to work. Things like you can't be or have selected certain types of layers (in the layer palette), you can't use a working path it must be a real (for lack of a better word) path....

    My thought is they should combine the path and layers palette into one - and provide some kind of indicator as to what the 'thing' is, becuase it's too complicated and too easy to be in the wrong condition.

    They should also STOP assuming or extending a path when you say "select path", in general a path is a line or set of lines  - unless you close them into a closed shape.


    After making a clean "empty" layer, and creating a path in the path palette I was able to get it to work.

    Thanks for your help again!!

    alex

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    May 2, 2011

    VmusicV wrote:

    Thanks for your answer... it turns out there are quite a few "conditions" to get things to work. Things like you can't be or have selected certain types of layers (in the layer palette), you can't use a working path it must be a real (for lack of a better word) path....


    While I agree that you sometimes have to set a lot of things up just right to get real work done with Photoshop, it's not like it doesn't make sense...

    For example, if you're going to stroke a path, you have to be ready to stroke it onto something - i.e., an image layer.  Simply put, you have to tell it where to put the pixels before you stroke the path.

    It's the combinability of operations in Photoshop that gives us the extreme power to be creative with it.

    -Noel

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