How to make political borders?

[Coyotemax]

I would also go so far as to highly recommend using the pen to draw out a path for the border and then using the stroke on that.

I played around with it a bit, and even using a tablet, i can't get the lines to come out nicely along curves.

I'm attaching a screenshot so murus can see what i did for the settings

The left hand line is done with a path, the right is me drawing as smoothly as I could with the tablet Note also that the shorter the long line is, the more it will fit to curves without looking odd.

[murus]

Thanks for your replies

Coyotemax your idea of a path with adding a stroke was brilliant, but what kind of shape for the stroke did you use in your example? the same as your brush?

I'd try my border brush desing for a shape stroke and didn't work

[Ascension]

Stroking a path is done with a brush tip (brush or pencil mode) following a path (pen tool) and is quite different than a stroking an object (like with a layer style). The terminology is confusing, I agree. What he did was make a custom brush tip that consisted of a line and a dot. Then he laid out a path with the pen tool, then he set the spacing for the brush tip to 586%, then he stroked the path with the brush tip. A layer style of stroke would give you a solid line or a pattern or a gradient.