Re: no fill in paths


I've run thru help, and I just can't find how to turn off the fill
function
when using the pen tool..

I'm trying to draw a line that's not exactly 90 degrees, and when I stop
drawing, I have a colored curve between the start and end point.

It's driving me crazy..

Make sure you have 'path' selected (left on the toolbar, middle icon)
Now you draw a path, which you can stroke (path-panel)
It doesn't work the same as in eg. Illustrator, but is very powerful if you
get the hang.

This has happened to me before. What I did was reset PS defaults, CTRL ALT
SHIFT. What the pen tool did was it selected the far right icon vs the middle
or left one[shape]. I think there's only 3, and the far right's always grayed
on me.
Kind of extreme, but it worked. They need to remove that 'show full menu items'
thing, or at least allow a config as in MS access 2003 to show full menu items
with 1 toggle. I had to modify each and every menu item on the basic menu to
show all. I think it took an hour to toggle all the items 1 by 1. Sheesh.


You can save your workspace, your keyboard shortcuts and your menu in PS. (CS3 & 4)


What I was trying to do was follow along with Monroy and his newest pixel
perfect demo 'Create a Realistic Beer Bottle - PixelPerfect'. I realize he's
using a Mac, but there's not a lot of difference. But I just could not do the
mirror in Illustrator as he did. But I did it almost verbatim in PS, once I got
it to stop filling in the points.

Practice! ;-)

.

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