I am trying to make a rope border on an 8.5 x 11 brochure. I downloaded a free set of ROPE BRUSHES and chose one to accomplish the rope on the top edge of my image which is attached. I did not have to brush on the rope with multiple clicks. It was one long, straight, rope.
I clicked on the image and the 8.5” top border was magically filled with a long thin rope-border. Next, I clicked on the bottom edge and an identical rope filled the bottom edge. But, the rope on the bottom edge was partially hidden by a layer on top of it. So I went out of brushes to work on the layering issue.
When I went back to the brushes, I saw 15+ jpegs. I assumed the jpeg’s were downloaded with the free brush, and I did not know that one could create a brush out of a jpeg, so I thought I was being scammed and deleted all of the jpegs.
I went back to the brushes, but realized that one of the jpegs must have been used to create the rope. I reloaded the brushes and spent 6 hours attempting to recreated my long-thin rope.
I want the rope to be long and thin, but if I increase the 1” identical brush size to 1600 pixels to get the rope long enough, then it becomes enormously wide (2″) as shown in the attached image. HELP! I want my rope to be approx 1/4 in x 11″.
The 2nd rope in the attached image is exactly the width I need. How do I elongate it without increase the width?
Answer
Hmmm . . . It would seem these are just images of a rope, not actual properly made Photoshop brushes.
Instead, better to make your own rope brush preset in Photoshop. It can be done in a few minutes, not hours.
All you need to begin with is a photo of some rope. Either take your own photo or find a stock photo.
Use the Pen Tool to make a path around one segment of the rope, and turn the path into a selection, then click Edit > Define Brush Preset
Open the Brush Settings menu (F5)
Under the Brush Tip Shape settings, change the size to make the brush smaller, then set the Spacing to something like 72%. This percentage will differ depending on the actual rope, so you will need to tweak it until you get something that looks like a rope. Obviously the segments should slightly overlap each other.
Then in the Shape Dynamics, change the Angle Control to Direction.
Click the tiny menu icon at the top right of the Brush Settings, and click New Brush Preset, give your Brush Preset a name.
That’s it!
Have fun painting ropes!
To paint a straight line, click once with the brush, hold down Shift, then click another point, and a line will be drawn between the two.
Change the thickness of the rope by changing the size of the brush
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Source : Link , Question Author : Curt Norman , Answer Author : Billy Kerr