I'm trying to draw a circle made of cirles/dots in PSP 9 - I'm using an elipse and setting my line style to dot, width to 50............I get a nice circle - made of SQAURES! what am I doing wrong?
While I'm asking - when I use a brush flower - it keeps changing the size and flipping it all over - I've changed the settings and can't make it stay the same size...help too!

thank you
Angela

For the brush, open the Brushes Palette and check the Rotation and Size Jitter % boxes. Make sure they're at zero. Jitter is the amount of randomness, so if Size is hight, the size will vary randomly, and if Rotation is high, the angle with vary randomly. This is a good or bad thing depending on what you're doing.

for the circle dots, dunno why they're squares. Did you try going in the Edit the line style and making another one? What happens when you choose another line style? Are they all distorted?

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Emma the Pal
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thank you, Emma - I definitley learned how to make better use of my brushes from you. I didn't know that I could change those things.

The dotted circle from the dot option still doesn't work - but dash dot does I'll just use that.

thanks again.

okay, the reason they're square is because the line style uses tiny little squares to make the dotted line. Choose the line you want (dotted) and then at the bottom of the menu choose Custom. Change the segment from the square to the ball bearing and you'll get it to be round. It looked dotted until you make it big, where it's apparent that it's in fact just squares.
Unfortunately, I don't see any way to get rid of the line connecting the two. I made each end cap as close as possible, and made one big and the other tiny. So it has the dot, but a tiny post sticking out of it like a lollipop...

hth! And if anyone knows a way to get rid of the connecting lines between caps, please tell me how you did it!

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Emma the Pal
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yeah! it worked. I didn't get lines - just nice dots all around. And it is so neat that I can change the gap between the dots there...I chose ball for the fist and last cap and then clicked on different segment caps and made those the same thing.
now I'm going to try to make it into a brush and see what I can do with that.

thanks for all your help. I never even noticed the custom button.

Angela