There several ways of drawing dashed lines in Photoshop and in this tutorial I will explain my two favorite techniques. I will show you how to use vector shapes and set their stroke up properly and then I will explain how to create a custom brush, which can be used to draw with dashed lines. To make the tutorial more interesting I’m going to use these techniques to draw the pocket of jeans from scratch. Let’s get started!

About the author 

Martin Perhiniak

Martin Perhiniak is a Certified Adobe Design Master and Instructor. He was voted to be one of the top 10 Adobe instructors in the world by student feedback in 2015. In his online courses besides the technical knowledge you need, Martin will also teach you a lot about design principles, compositional techniques and plenty of best practices that he picked up and developed while working as a designer and retoucher on projects such as Pixar’s Cars and Toy Story, BBC’s Dr Who or Mattel’s Team Hot Wheels. He feels it his mission to share his insights of the design industry and its latest trends with beginners and creative professionals around the World.

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