I use this dotted line trick in illustrator on a lot of my projects. Turns out it works perfectly to create these string art templates too. Thanks for checking out the video.
Dave - someone needs to get in touch with Adobe to give you credit for showing us how powerful illustrator is. Hell since the last post about photoshop I switched back to illustrator :) I thank you again for the well easy to follow tutorial. Keep up the great work.
This is wonderful, thank-you! And you are more than welcome for the suggestion, glad I helped you to come across something new. Just getting into string art myself, so this is going to be a huge help, I can already tell. Love your maple leaf as well, it just pops against the wood you used for it. :)
That's awesome! Glad to hear that this will end up being helpful. I had a blast making the video and the maple leaf piece I made will certainly find a home in my studio.
Hi Vanessa - Thanks so much for the comment. This technique works best in Illustrator because of the built in control of the location of corner points. You can create similar dashed lines in photoshop around the border of a shape but there isn't a feature in PS to force the dashes into the corners. I did however find a PS script online created by David Jensen called "dashed_line_nice_corners" that looks like it can achieve the same result.... it will just take some more steps to get there.
