How do i set my brush so it draws refined lines?

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March 25, 2014
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Im trying to draw in Photoshop but im not liking how the brushes are. im trying to go for flat colors with no fade to the strokes (i guess vector like, almost how flash does it)

The paint brush even tuned up to 100% is still a little bit faded especially on the edges

and the pencil is how i do want it to be but it has jagged edges

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Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I don't think I ever use the pencil. As you have found, reducing hardness makes no difference, so you never get any anti aliasing with the pencil tool. Just nasty jaggies on any by perfectly horizontal or vertical lines. I expect you know you can force horizontal, vertical lines by holding down the Shift key. Or in any direction by touching down, and then holding the Shift key while touching down at the other end of your line?

Are you using a tablet, or mouse?

If a tablet, then I am a big fan of Lazy Nezumi that allows me to draw wonderfully smooth curves,, and all sorts of other clever features.

http://lazynezumi.com/

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DennisJaAuthor

Inspiring

Mouse and its not just when I make make curves. Smoothness isn't the issue its hardness.

The green was is a screen shot from flash That's what i want the colors are nice and full with almost no bad edges

The red was done using a brush of 100 opacity and hardness and Its to faded for some reason

The blue is with the pencil tool. Full colors but to jagged it makes my drawings look like they were done in ms paint

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Oh wow im a complete idiot. Well I almost never use the brush tool so i forgot about the presets all i did was change the brushes and boom it works better then flash :b.

Thanks for the help

I don't know what sort of work you do. I'm guessing it is web related if you use Flash, but I don't have any of the web related apps installed here. But the brush tool is without a doubt my most used tool, whether I am doing Illustration, layout, composite, or Photography. And I couldn't imaging using Photoshop without a tablet. They really free you up.

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