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[AD] constrain brush stroke horizontally/vertically


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Hi Markio :)

It certainly is! You can use a one finger modifier on screen, then tap between the points where you wish to draw a straight line. This can be seen in my screen recording below - 

I hope this helps!

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1 minute ago, Dan C said:

You can use a one finger modifier on screen, then tap between the points where you wish to draw a straight line.

That just gives you an arbitrary straight line, not a perfectly horizontal or vertical one.

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26 minutes ago, Alfred said:

That just gives you an arbitrary straight line, not a perfectly horizontal or vertical one.

My apologies, I misread the original post :$

23 minutes ago, Markio said:

Yes, and it would be nice to keep the pressure sensitivity along the stroke.

Unfortunately I don't believe this to be possible in the Pixel Persona of Designer for iPad, the closest workaround I can think of is using the above method with a grid for guidance, however this will not guarantee perfectly horizontal/vertical lines.

May I ask why you cannot use vector objects here? (or alternatively you could create the design in Vector with perfectly straight lines, group these objects and then rasterise the group to a pixel layer?

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48 minutes ago, Dan C said:

May I ask why you cannot use vector objects here?

I guess that would be a possibility. But I would like to emulate sketching freehand, with the added possibility to use constraints on the strokes.

I am an architect, so I would benefit from straight but 'sketchy' lines. Sketchy in the sense of making a sketch, not just as an end-result.

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