Stroke path with brush / art media brush

[Virtual DarKness]

Hello,
from what I've read PSP doesn't have this feature, that I found from google, in photoshop is called "Stroke path with brush"..

I think it is a very useful feature and I'll add it to the wishlist post in the next days as I collect all the other small things I'd like to have in the next PSP version..

Quoting from http://loriweb.pair.com/psp9.html:

And could we please have the ability to stroke a path with a brush or Picture Tube! Hey, even Microsoft's Digital Image Pro has this ability. In fact, PSP is perhaps the only mainstream image editor that lacks this feature. Gary Barton's VectorPaint and VectorTube scripts are a help, but they can't substitute for real path stroking.

I agree to the author of that webpage, and that was related to psp9, so not exactly a "fresh request".

I think this feature should be added for brushes, tubes and also for art-media brushes..

Also, as has been said in the quoted text.. for now we can use that scripts: http://pixelnook.home.comcast.net/~pixe ... rPaint.htm ..but last release is from december 2003..

so I think that this feature would be a very important one to have old psp users to switch to the new release..


and now my question is:
how do you do things like that? do you use that scripts? or are there other methods?


If you want to see some practical examples of how this feature could be used:

http://www.createblog.com/photoshop-tut ... ire-lines/
http://gimp-tutorials.net/gimp-contamin ... t-tutorial (from step 10)


bye,
Giovanni.

[Virtual DarKness]

Hello,
I've did some tests and I was able to edit the VectorPaint script to have it works with the art media brushes like the pastel tool

The result is very interesting but for now I just did it as a test.. I'd like to contact the original authors to know if I could make some works based on his scripts and how I could use it (if I'll write some scripts I'll do for free and probably I'd choose the new bsd license or lgpl ..)

The problem is that I can't find a way to contact the original authors :p do you know how I could do this?

thanks.

bye,
Giovanni.

p.s.
sample image:

[allicorn]

Great work there. You're right about VectorPaint's authors though - no idea how to get hold of them. The pixelnook site is devoid of any contact mechanism and none of the scripts I have from there seem to contain anything more than a link back to the site. It was all rather a long time ago now it seems...

Alli

[Virtual DarKness]

The pixelnook site is devoid of any contact mechanism and none of the scripts I have from there seem to contain anything more than a link back to the site. It was all rather a long time ago

Yep.. I was considering to rewrite it from scratch but first I'll need to understand how the bezier curves works, from a math point of view.. (and I'm not good with math :p).

The rest of the script is not that hard to understand and maybe I could also merge the two scripts (Brush + Tubes) and then implement also the art media brushes..

For now I've made from scratch a little test script that draws a sine wave but I'm not sure that it is 100% correct eheh..

I'll have to do some more tests before I know if I can make it or if I'd better give up (Quite confident for now, only wish to have more free time hehe)

bye,
Gioavnni.

[allicorn]

Hehe - I'm a coder myself and I totally get what you're saying there!

Very cool - good luck man!

Alli