Is there a way to make my lines slightly 'wobbly' as if drawn by hand in XDPX?

[shiphen]

could not agree more - and it would do what shipen wants very quickly and easily keeping the sides of the lines parallel, but xara does not have one

but you have remined me of the xara tool shipen could use:

select the vector line go to shape painter tool [previously called shape builder] and from the info bar drop down on the right choose warp

that will enable you to warp the line by dragging over, keeping the sides equidistant ['parallel']

Well the Shape Painter is certainly an interesting approach. And it does more or less do the job!

However my slight problems are:
1. I only want to create a very subtle tweaks (that look "hand drawn" [!]) and quite lot of amount of skill and/or time is required to make it look hand drawn.
2. I want to do multiple lines at once and make them wobble randomly rather than systematically
3. Fwiw, I can't work out what effect if any "Smoothing" has.
4. Also is there any way to straighten the line (slightly afterwards) rather than trying to sort of brush them back into shape?

J

[handrawn]

I'd have to check to be sure, but smoothing slider probably only has effect when you are drawing a line with this tool [paint mode]

and quite lot of amount of skill and/or time is required to make it look hand drawn

in my case about 5 years before I could draw a line freehand and make it look 'easy' - skill and time is what it takes... although AI is going to help with the routine stuff more and more

I don't think you can batch it randomly, xara does not do randomisation afaik; maybe a plugin someone knows about....

if you still have a magix version you could look at the live effect > deformation filter > liquid color and use the draw setting tool to tweak your original line - with care it will look more hand drawn, but you will loose the strict equidistance between the sides which of course you do not have in a true hand drawn line outside of tech drawing where the lines do not wobble

smoothing it out is another task altogether

[Acorn]

3. Fwiw, I can't work out what effect if any "Smoothing" has.

Select the shape, open the Shape tool and Click+Drag across those controls you want to smooth.

Acorn

[Acorn]

4. Also is there any way to straighten the line (slightly afterwards) rather than trying to sort of brush them back into shape?

The power lies is the random controls of Edit Brush for a scatter brush but you didn't want any lumpiness in the line.

I have found the best effect is to shape the Warp to be 100px, 45deg and 150 roundness.
If you have the Nib inside the shape you can move to the edge NSEW and achieve a gentle pucker.
Holding the Shift key also can add to the distortion.
Finally switch to the Shape tool, select all controls and smooth., deleting or moving unwanted controls.

Acorn