Shipbucket

First, a short back story:
A tragic accident has wiped everything in the "Documents" folder on my computer, and, as my SB folder was in there, I have lost all my WIP's. File resoration did not work because all things were saved over about 20 times and "corrupted". But, I am taking this as a fresh start, and am using a new meathod of drawing, Photoshop. Actually, most of the drawing is done in MSPaint, but all the little parts are put together in Photoshop.
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Anyway, when I try to do anything in Photoshop, it comes out as anti aliased, and I have figured out how to turn it off for all tools except for the line tool. When I google it, all I find is instructions that sound like they came from some sleep deprived person on tech support. Anyone know how to turn this off and explain in the vernacular?

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"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

What tools are you using?

For the marquee, paint bucket, pencil, and lasso tool you should uncheck the "Anti-Alias" box at the top. For the eraser make sure it is set to Block mode.

Keep using photoshop, with its layers you will discover that it is hands down the best tool for the job.

Edit: Do not use the line tool. Rather use the Pencil tool (available as the alternative to Brush, right click it on the toolstrip and select Pencil) at 1px diameter. Click the start point of the line and then shift-click the end point to create neat MSPaint-style 1px lines in Photoshop.

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

Thanks.

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"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

It will require a bit of practice and some getting used to if you are a paint user, but once you figure it all out the different is astounding. I'm able to make such effective use of keyboard shortcuts that I can't even stand MSPaint anymore.

Here are my basic settings for my tools:

Pencil tool (hotkey "B"): defaults

Paint bucket tool (hotkey "G"):
- Fill: Foreground
- Opacity: 100%
- Tolerance: 0
- Contiguous checked
- Anti-Aliased unchecked
- All-Layers unchecked

Marquee tool (hotkey "M"):
- Feather: 0px
- Style: Normal
- Anti-Alias unchecked

Lasso too (hotkey "L"): (I use Polygonal Lasso, but Magnetic Lasso is a very useful tool as well)
- Feather: 0px
- Anti-Alias unchecked

Line tool (hotkey "U") (only useful for drawing long horizontal or vertical lines):
-"Fill Pixels" (button at the top of the toolstrip, looks like a plain box)
- Weight: 1px
- Mode: Normal
- Opacity: 100%
- Anti-Alias unchecked

Other useful things I know:

- Double click the zoom icon to return to actual-size
- Edit->Transform->Flip Horizontal/Vertical to flip an item (I made an Action tied to Ctrl+Shift+F11 to do this instantly)
- Layer groups: create a new layer group for camouflage, draw the camouflage within it and then disable its visibility to see the original ship
- Create layers for the ship itself, then layers for armaments, light AA, equipment, propellers, rigging, railing, cranes, catapults, planes, etc. (infinite possibilities here)
- The Paint Bucket (fill) tool can be used with Contiguous unchecked to fill in all instances of a specific color with a new color.
- Use the polygonal lasso tool to select splinter shapes to apply camouflage on another layer

Any other questions just ask!

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

The only downside I've found to using photoshop is curved lines. Any attempt at bending or warping a line in photoshop has resulted in an anti-aliased line for me. So I have to manually draw all my curves, and I'm really not very good at it.

I don't suppose you know of a way to fix that do you?

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Equality is by nature unfair ~ Hail Britannia.

None that I know of. It's all about patience and taking your time.

IMO the benefits of Photoshop more than outweigh the cons (lack of proper line tool, no curves).

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I do agree

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Equality is by nature unfair ~ Hail Britannia.