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How To Change A Pencil's Thickness Once Drawn?


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Hello! Thanks for considering my question, and thanks for patience with my Photoshop ignorance. I've been using the program for a while, but never in any depth. Now that I've started, I've found I'm quickly out of my depth!

I've spent quite a bit of time tracing a scanned image with the pencil tool set to 2 pixels, only to determine that I need the pencil thickness to be 3 or possibly 4 pixels wide!

Is there a way to alter this without redrawing everything? Please say yes!

Thanks very much
 
Hi mwsmedia,

Welcome! There are a number of ways to accomplish your goal depending on the starting point of the project. Did you do the tracing on a separate layer which is otherwise transparent? That would be easiest! If so, you could hold Control + click (Command + click on a Mac) on the layer in the Layers palette. That would load all your drawing as a selection. Then Edit > Stroke... and a dialog comes up. You would want to pick Centered and one pixel to end up with a three pixel total result if you started with a 2px line. Outside and 1 would equal 4 pixel total etc. Experimenting will provide your most satisfactory result.

If this idea doesn't work because it starts with an incorrect assumption (the drawing is on a transparent layer), let us know.

Cheers!
Welles
 
Worked like a charm! Thanks!
 
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