Dotted stroke when applying the Rotation Tool

[Nordic256]

Photoshop Version: CC 2018 19.1.5 Release

OS: Windows 10 22H2 19045.5487

Hi! When I use the Rotation Tool, the brush stroke becomes discontinuous. The effect is most pronounced when rotated 45 degrees. (Clearly in the video) This doesn't happen in other graphics editors, so it's not a problem with the Wacom Intuos tablet I'm drawing on.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Your document window is zoomed in to 396% and you are using a 2 pixel brush preset.  What you are seeing is probably a display artifact caused by the angle, zoom ratio, and anti-aliasing.  What do you see if you hit Escape to cancle the roation, and set the display zoom ratio to 100%.  That's the only thiong that counts or matters.

[Nordic256]

Yes, I scale the image quite a bit for better drawing. But look at the previous strokes under the grid, they are also done at the same scale and the same brush size. But in other graphic editors the brush size is set to 2 pixels, and there are no such problems, the stroke is uniform.

[Nordic256]

And by the way, if you draw without applying Rotation Tool the stroke is fine, very strange all of this

[BrettN]

How solid or dotted a brush stroke appears is controlled by the Spacing setting in the Brush Tip Shape section of the Brush settings panel. Reducing this value causes each brush tip shape to overlap the previous one more readily. I'm guessing the angle settings are interacting with the rotation in an unexpected way here. What is the Angle value? Maybe aligning the brush angle to the canvas angle is making the spacing more apparent than usual.

[Nordic256]

Yes, it got much better, but the jagged edges of the stroke are still there, compared to the ones in the background. I changed the angle of the brush, tried different values and chose the most optimal one