Inking in PhotoShop.

[Chillin]

I have attempted to try and use PS to ink some of my images. What I have been told to do is use the pen tool. I am very competent with the bezier tools as I use Freehand quite frequently to give my images that are scanned the "inked" looked.

When I tried to do it in PS, it just would not work. You know how if you use the pen tool, it will automatically fill in the area your working on?
Well how can i have it so that I just see the line I am manipulating, and it not always have it default to fill and make it look like some abstract shape?

my second dilema is the stroke. Adding a custom stroke to the pen lines. It normally tells you to right click on the line and it will bring up a sub menu, where you can choose how your stroke will look. I run a mac, so its control click, when i do that, the Stroke feature is not available (faded out)

What am i missing?

I hope this made sense.

 

[Welles]

In all likelihood you have your menu set to Shape as in image A. B shows setting the pen tool to Path. You will create a work path which then can be filled with the contextual menu or you can go to the bottom of the Path's palette and click on the second icon from the left at the bottom which is 'Stroke path with brush.' If you option click on that little icon another menu appears (D). In the stroke path dialog you have all kinds of options which don't appear otherwise. For example you can stroke with just about any tool.

I hope that helps!

 

[Chillin]

ncie....yes that helped immenesly...thanks :} :} :}