
Oh, and this works with virtually every brush, so you can quickly make straight lines of circles, diamonds, ovals, and even butterflies, like I did in the image at the top of the post. Adjust the size of the brush and/or the spacing on the brush settings to achieve different looks. Press and hold the Shift key and then draw your straight line.

In my example below, the spacing was 199% and scatter was 0. In the Brush Settings dialog box, move the spacing option slider (red arrow above) to change the distance between each point of the brush. Open the Brush Settings dialog box (blue arrow). Select the Brush Tool, then in the Brush Tool Options bar, select one of the square brushes (red arrow). Here is an image of the Move Tool Options bar. Select all the square layers and use the Move tool to distribute the squares evenly. Select the Custom Shape tool (red arrow), pick the square shape (green arrow), and then duplicate the shape. Well, at some point Deb looked at my file and taught me that there was an easier way to make a straight line of squares.


When I was making some graphics for our first online classes, I wanted to make a straight line of squares (we like using squares because they’re pixels!). This is Kris with another one of those Tech-Tuesday-Slap-My-Head-Stories.
