Problems Stroking Path with the pencil cs6
I´ve been making pixel art for a while now and recently I upgraded to cs6.
all was fine till I tried to stroke a circular path with the pencil tool.
The Circles it makes are completely uneven. I cant figure out a way to fix this. Help please.
These are the paths i traced in different sizes
this is the stroked path with a 1 x 1 pixel pencil
as you can see the the bottom and right part of the circles is different from the top left. it is more noticeable on smaller circles.
it also happens with bigger stroke sizes.
this diddn´t happen in cs5.
I would appreciate any input.
If a path is in precisely the same location in CS5 and CS6 then strokes made with the Pencil will be almost (or possibly actually) identical in both versions. However, CS6 has an added preference to restrict the positioning of paths with respect to the pixel grid and I think that the positioning of your paths is not as you intended. You'd have got reasonably symmetrical Pencil-stroked circles if the N, E, S and W points of the circular paths lay mid-pixel. These points in your example are lying on pixel boundaries, hence the asymmetrical strokes.
To get CS5's free positioning of paths in CS6, disable Preferences > General > Snap Vector Tools and Transforms to Pixel Grid. Then it'll be possible to get in CS6 the result that you got in CS5.
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