{"id":418,"date":"2023-02-13T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2022-12-29T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:19:55","slug":"drawing-straight-lines-in-paintshop-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/2023\/02\/drawing-straight-lines-in-paintshop-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing straight lines in PaintShop Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were to draw on paper, you would have the option to use a ruler to draw straight lines. That is not the case when you use a graphic program. However, when you are working with PaintShop Pro, there is a simple way to draw those straight lines you need.<\/p>\n

A simple trick<\/h2>\n

The Shift<\/strong> key is the secret to drawing straight lines. Using the tool you have, click on one end of the “line” you want to draw, hold the Shift<\/strong> key, and while still holding it, click on the other end of the “line”. Then, you can let go of the Shift<\/strong> key.<\/p>\n

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With this trick, you can draw lines in any angle you want.<\/p>\n

Using the Brush tool<\/h2>\n

This is the most common tool you can think of using to make straight lines.<\/p>\n

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While holding the Shift<\/strong> key for more than one click, you can get creative and draw longer continuous lines at any angle.<\/p>\n

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And since the Brush<\/strong> tool can have different settings, those will also be maintained all along that straight line. If you have a Step<\/strong> value of 100, you will see the dots appear separately, yet, in a straight line too.<\/p>\n

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The Eraser tool<\/h2>\n

Since the Eraser<\/strong> tool is just like the Brush<\/strong> tool, but in reverse, you can use the exact same trick to cut out in a straight line too.<\/p>\n

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And just like the Brush tool, if you change the Step value, you will get individual dots being erased, but still in a straight line.<\/p>\n

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The Picture Tubes<\/h2>\n

You can also use this straight-line trick to draw picture tubes. Although many picture tubes don’t need to be in a straight line, some directional tubes can give a great result when they are straight, as they can be used as edges or others.<\/p>\n

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Or this one too.<\/p>\n

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The Warp Brush tool<\/h2>\n

Although we might not think of using the Warp Brush<\/strong> tool to draw straight lines, it can be quite effective to create some unique designs, on a background that has different patterns. Here is an example of a gradient background.<\/p>\n

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Other tools<\/h2>\n

Although you can still use this trick for just about any tool, you might find it just less useful than when using the Brush<\/strong>, the Eraser<\/strong>, and the Picture tube<\/strong> tools. But don’t let that stop you. Experiment with other tools and you might find something you like.<\/p>\n

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If you want more tips like these, check out the book Tips and Tricks for PaintShop Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you were to draw on paper, you would have the option to use a ruler to draw straight lines. That is not the case when you use a graphic program. However, when you are working with PaintShop Pro, there is a simple way to draw those straight lines you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[36,14,35,38,33,13,37,12,34],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-and-tutorials","tag-brush","tag-corel-paintshop-pro","tag-drawing-lines","tag-eraser","tag-lines","tag-paintshop-pro","tag-picture-tubes","tag-psp","tag-straight-lines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paintshopcampus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}