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Draw straight lines
There are other ways to draw a straight line than using the line tool. After this tip, you may find your need to reach for the line tool reduced, in fact this may even break your addiction. While using any of the drawing tools; Brushes, Pencil, Dodge and Burn, Eraser, Blur, Sharpen and Smudge holding down the shift key will cause you to draw in a perfectly straight line either vertical or horizontal. An added feature will let you create straight lines between points by clicking, Hold down shift and click again anywhere to join the 2 points.

written by: sarmistha_me, 75 days ago

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Pantoufle [lvl 1] [vp 0] [vote medals 0]:
no avatar Thanks! This was very helpful to me!
(10 days ago)
Pxl_chicken [lvl 6] [vp 390] [vote medals 7]:
avatar Pxl_chicken omg...duh..i never knew..i knew you make perfect circles this way..but not straight lines!!..thanks
so much!

(6 days 20 hr ago)

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