You’re normally thinking that drawing a straight line with a pen and paper is hard sometimes. Trying to draw a digital straight line must be more difficult. It is incorrect. In Photoshop, users can draw a perfectly straight line. There is much you can do with lines in Photoshop. Creating lines with different tools can produce different results. Arrange lines in different styles to decorate text information, but trust me, a straight line can be changed into many different things, such as elegant brushwork, dotted or dashed lines, etc. This tutorial will teach you How to draw a straight line in Photoshop? Here are four quick and easy tips to draw a straight line in Photoshop, and also how to style it.
Line Tool
⦁ The Line Tool will appear in the submenu of the shape tools when you click the rectangle tool on the toolbar.
⦁ Create a straight line by moving the mouse on the canvas.
⦁ You can see the line if you click the return key. If not, a way will be shown.
⦁ Holding down the Shift key when clicking and moving to the right on the canvas will help to create a horizontal straight line. To create a vertical straight line, click and drag downward when holding down the Shift key.
Brush Tool
⦁ From the toolbar, select the Brush Tool.
⦁ From the Brushes panel, select a brush style. Users can access the Brushes panel from the top menu by clicking Window > Brushes if you’ve not completed so.
⦁ The brush size is set.
⦁ To make a straight brush line, hold it down the Shift key when selecting and dragging.
Pen Tool
⦁ Selecting the Pen Tool.
⦁ You add an anchor point and begin a path, select on the canvas.
⦁ You add another anchor point and click once again. Photoshop draws a line between two anchor points automatically. Hold down the Shift key when clicking if you do want a horizontal line.
⦁ To stop adding anchor points, click the Return key to stop the journey.
Pencil Tool
⦁ A pencil tool should be selected.
⦁ Decide on a color and the pencil’s size. The brush picked is square.
⦁ You draw a straight line, click and drag while holding down the Shift key.
Conclusion
The key is the Shift key. With the help of the Shift key, you can make a straight line in Photoshop to use any of the above tools. Drawing lines is the aim of the Line Tool. You can create artistic strokes using the brush tool, and the pen tool works well when you want to mix straight and curved lines in one design. Truly, mostly use the Pencil Tool to draw lines, but if you chance to be using it and only want to do that, why not? I hope this article will be helpful for you.
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