Custom brush/line tool?

[Ropey]

Hi

 

Maps often use lines with different colour and pattern edges  - eg, a red fill with solid black edges for a highway, red with one solid and one dotted for a secondary road, etc; blue with dark blue for a major river, blue with no border for a dry or seasonal river.

 

Assuming no one has created one already (I did search!), how easy would it be for a technical person to create such a tool? I am picturing options for width; fill and edge colours; edge styles.

 

Would anyone be willing to take on the task, as I am not such a technical person?

[AndrewDavid]

@Ropey Welcome to the forum

 

Have a read of this post and see if you find something that fills your needs.

 

 

 

[HyReZ]

Greetings Ropey,

Sometimes cartographers will use patterned or textured lines to represent what you described.
I have created a tutorial screen capture that shows a basic way to do that using the out of the box features of PDN. (See Below)

The PDN forum member; null54; has developed plugins that will let you take that to the next level:
 

Here is a link for a Paint.NET plugin that lets you use Photoshop Brushes
( https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/25792-photoshop-brush-filetype-2018-12-23/ )
 

Here is a link for a Paint.NET plugin that lets you use Photoshop Patterns
( https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/25696-photoshop-pattern-filetype-2018-12-25/ )



 

 

[Ropey]

Thank you for those suggestions - I'll take a look.

[Ropey]

The Neutral Wire zip contained a single .dll. Which folder should that go in?

[AndrewDavid]

Hi again @Ropey

 

C:\Program Files\paint.net\Effects

assuming you are running the classic version