Stitching Brushes in PSE

[Terri Gardiner]

Does anyone know if there's a way to use a stitching brush to follow a circle...I also have bought stiches...is there any way to make them actually bend, say around a half circle??? I'm not sure if you have to create a path which I can't do in PSE.

[Kathleen]

Brushes can stroke on a path in PS, but I don't think in PSE.

As for bending a straight line of stitches ... you could use the transform options and use skew or warp if you have them, but I would think that would only work for a subtle bend.

Something I have done in the past is if there is space between the stitches you can copy paste parts of a line and then rotate the part and continue the process until you get a circle.

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Sorry to be an enabler!

[Terri Gardiner]

Thank You! I'll see how that works...I have some of the stitches but not some of the ones listed above!

[Kathleen]

I have some of the stitches but not some of the ones listed above!

I found a few that I didn't have either ... I really like the groups of just the stitches... there is always something on my wish list!!

[webfrau]

The other thing you could try with a straight line of stitches would be filter>distort>polar coordinates>rectangular to polar
a straight object is turned into a circle, the line needs to be longer than you'd think to get a decent size circle and sometimes it looks distorted and odd but it's worth a try.

[Terri Gardiner]

Hey there...I tried the polar coordinates...I couldn't get it to work.... it looked more like a flying saucer...I basically want to follow a half circle around my page...so far I can't get my stitches straight with the brushes....

[Lauren]

For the polar coordinates to work the item needs to be placed dead centre in your layout

[Terri Gardiner]

I noticed above that you mentioned that you can take a straight line of stitches and use skew or distort...I'm wanting to make some soft curves in them...is there a way to do this?? Skew doesn't do anything for me...

[Lauren]

you can do this with distort - shear - or warp

[Terri Gardiner]

Ok Lauren, I'm using KeepinEmIn Stitches...I've tried this 3 times on shear...I must not have the warp setting...it's not doing anything....what am I doing wrong? What it seems to be doing is distorting the stitch but not making a slow bend in the whole thing.

[Lauren]

Shear only works on vertical lines so you need to turn your stitching so its vertical and then use the filter

[Terri Gardiner]

Oh, I'll try that!! I like your picture!! Looks pretty freaky!! I got it!! Thank you!