Comments When most people think of stroking a path, they think of adding a frame around an image. But don’t forget, you can stroke a path with any of the painting tools set to any brush tip shape! I have used the feature in a variety of ways from adding a highlight with the dodge tool to cloning an image to a new document, using the path to limit area that I want to display.
This sounds intriguing but I admit I can’t visualize it. Can you show an example of how the cloning of a path would work? I’d love to add this to my bag of tricks!
As a Photoshop instructor myselfnI’ve been a big fan of your work and would be on the Iceland workshop in a heartbeat if I could. Thanks for all the information you share.
I think this illustration will help – the example is painted with the brush tool, but you could select the Dodge tool instead and apply the “dodge” along the edge of light that you want to enhance. http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2011/05/simulating-pressure-when-stroking-a-path.html
I am wondering how to apply a rough pencil “brush” to a path in Photoshop, your comment above showed up in the Photoshop Help, but it doesn’t say how . . . could you direct me to instructions? The client wants it to look rough, but when I trace freehand without using paths it’s too wiggly. Thank you so much for any help you can give me.
I’m not sure if you mean rough like you’re painting on a rough textured surface – in which case I would suggest that you add a “Texture” to your brush in the Brush panel.