Brush strokes reshape themselves to smoother lines after I draw them. Solutions?

I am currently working on a drawing that involves many jagged lines, and I was using a 3pt Pressure brush to work on the outline. However, once I draw the lines and lift my pen off the pad, the lines are reshaped into smoother forms. Alot of the detail that I am trying to accomplish is smoothed out and taken away, especially with my sharp shapes. Is there some sort of setting, or something i am missing that will stop this from happening?
The pencil tool doesnt do this, and I would probably resort to it since it keeps my lines in tact. However, it sometimes deletes my original line when i draw too close to it, or it connects the lines. In the end, I am going to merge all the lines and marks ive made into one big shape.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!

AAA! thank you! i knew there had to be an easy way to get to a solution, but searching the internet for answers is easier said than done. thank you!

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Can you smooth out a brush stroke?

I am using an animated brush stroke to provide the Indiana Jones look on top of a picture of a google map for a trip I took. I can draw the brush stroke and set a key frame on the "end" attribute so that it paints on the stroke, but the stroke is not as smooth as I would like it and I can't find a way to edit the vertices of the brush stroke and can't apply the smoother to it either. Once you draw a brush stroke, can you smooth it out? Also, since I drew the brush stroke on top of my layer, is there a way to put a shadow underneath the brush stroke?
Thanks in advance!

I'd use a shape layer and the Trim Paths path operation rather than a paint stroke.
There's a link to a video tutorial showing how to do this in the
"Alter shapes with path operations" section of After Effects Help on the Web.
But, if you are using a paint stroke, then you can decrease the value of the Spacing property to make the strokes more smooth and continuous. See the
"Brushes and the Brushes panel" section of After Effects Help on the Web.
[Edit: Oh, I just realized that just meant "smooth" as in having fewer and less sharp turns. For this, you should copy the Path property of the paint stroke, paste it into the Position property of a temporary dummy layer, run the Smoother on that motion path, copy the motion path, and then paste that into your paint path. If you just want to edit the path a little bit, then you can copy it into a mask path and use the mask path editing tools and techniques. David Wigforss has a tip about this
on this page. The basic thing to take away from this is that you can copy and paste between the various kinds of paths and use the tools for one to help you with the other. (See
"Create a mask or shape from a motion path".)]
Regarding the shadow: There are many ways to do this. The first that comes to my mind for the paint stroke is to duplicate the stroke, make it a dark grey, reduce its opacity, and offset its position slightly from the other stroke. (Each paint stroke has its own Transform properties, so you can just go into the duplicate stroke's Transform property group and add a little to its Position values.) If you decide to go with the shape layer option, you could do essentially the same thing or you could use a Drop Shadow
layer style.

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http://i.imgur.com/orGsIwv.jpg
Cheers

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h,
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I'm running CS2 on a 6 year old computer.
This never happened before, but rather started 2 days ago.
When I pull a brush stroke through my image, the stroke is not smooth. The stroke looks like it's made up of all circles, and I can see edges as I pull the stroke.
I use my CS2 for coloring my lineart and cartoons.
Could this be an indication of not enough RAM?
What could it be?

Mark20112099 wrote:
Okay, so how can I change this?
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Click on Brush Tip Shape at the upper-left.
Change the Spacing value near the bottom.
-Noel

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