Can the pen tool stroke make pixelated lines?

[Kell]

Hi,

Basically I'm wondering how I can get the pen tool to make pixelated lines?

By default the pen tool makes soft edge brush tool style lines, but I want pixel tool style lines.

Thanks!

[Fixx]

Pen tool in Photo makes bezier curves... you can use Pixel tool to make pixelated lines. You can find it as Paint Brush variant (click the little triangle at the bottom corner of Paint Brush Tool icon at the Toolbox).

[Kell]

Thanks for the reply, but I think you may have misunderstood. I want to use the pen tool to make bezier curves and then have the stroke LOOK like a pixel tool stroke rather than a brush stroke.

I'm sorry if I'm not explaining it well, I'm new to all this.

[GarryP]

If you Rasterise a layer drawn with the Pen Tool then it will be pixelated (as far as the document DPI).
If you need further help with this it might be better if you give us more information about what you are trying to do. In other words, why do you want to “make pixelated lines”?

[Fixx]

I guess you can draw your lines with pen tool and apply threshold adjustment layer above. Note that you have to have a solid layer (fill, image or pixel) below lines as threshold does not apply to transparency.

[v_kyr]

See also this thread.

 

 

[Kell]

Okay, if I rasterize the layer then I can select and fill it to get the look I want. But it's problematic, once rasterized I can't edit nodes, and I have to rasterize, select and fill every time I make an addition.

I'm making some custom assets for a program called Dungeondraft, it allows you to quickly make battle maps for role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons. It has an old school style with 256 dpi and no AA, hence the desire for pixelated lines. And what I'm making specifically is spiderwebs, hence the desire for nice curves.

Threshold adjustment layer might work, but I'm unable to get right effect without losing the color. If it was just black and white it would be the best option I've found so far.

I'm inserting a few images. First was done by hand with pixel tool, right look but the curves aren't nice.

Second was done with pen tool, nice curves but it's not pixelated.

Third was done with pen tool then rasterize, select and fill. I have to adjust thickness of the lines but the effect is right.

They have white backgrounds but the final product won't, and the color doesn't seem right on the uploaded images but they should still help show what I'm talking about.

I'm still hoping there's a way to get the pen tool to just output pixelated lines.

Thanks a lot for your guys' help so far!

[telemax]

[Kell]

Thank you! That's working well! 

[Fixx]

10 hours ago, Kell said:

Threshold adjustment layer might work, but I'm unable to get right effect without losing the color.

You could recolor by adding solid colour layer above and adjust blend mode... but it may be fiddly.