Custom brush

**jvila** · 20 January 2009, 09:45 PM

I made a custom brush and when I apply that brush over a line it appears like a saw when I zoom it out
What can I do?.
I upload a drawing to show you the effect.

**iamtheblues** · 20 January 2009, 10:32 PM

Hola Javier. I made a similar brush to yours. I had the same "saw" effect, but I altered the line width, and edited the brush settings and had some better results.
Attached is my brush "hose brush".xar. It looks like a flexible shower (ducha) hose.
Saludos,
Bob.

**steve.ledger** · 20 January 2009, 10:34 PM

Have you set the spacing in the brush edit properties to minimum?

Jaggies can also appear when the display quality is set too low.
Also check that Xtreme is set to display Very High Quality
(Windows>>Quality>>Very High Quality)

Ooops - Bob got ahead of me

**jvila** · 20 January 2009, 10:36 PM

thank Bob, The saw is there anyway,
Sledger I have set it to minumum but it appears in the same way

**steve.ledger** · 20 January 2009, 10:51 PM

Using Bobs brush I get no serious jaggies when drawing a gently undulating line.

Spacing become an issue with tight curves and quick drawing movement, otherwise it seems fine to me.

I wonder what I'm doing so differently?

**jvila** · 20 January 2009, 10:59 PM

I set the line with to 6px and the spacing to minimun and the image appears sawed.
I attach the jpg
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, may be exists a setting I'm forgetting

**handrawn** · 20 January 2009, 11:11 PM

things to check

brush smoothing on info bar
settings in edit brush for offset and random spacing and scaling

can you post up a xar file with just the brush in?

**jvila** · 20 January 2009, 11:15 PM

here it goes

**handrawn** · 20 January 2009, 11:35 PM

ok two things

your shape is a bit big

but also your gradient is too saturated at the edge of the shape ['too black'] if you soften this by altering the gradient it should help - see attached

**steve.ledger** · 20 January 2009, 11:36 PM

Javier you might just be seeing the result of monitor display limitations.
Often things might look jaggy at certain zoom levels because the size of the pixels on the monitor do no precisely match the pixel area required at that zoom level.

Unless the jaggies exist at every zoom level, you won't see them when printed.

Here's a quick curve created with your brush with the spacing set to minimum %

See how the same image shows a little jaggy when zoomed out?