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Blunt points
Anonymous
To return to the topic at hand, if you order Photoshop to draw a path, it just simulates you manually drawing the line, hence, blunt points. If you use a vector program, like Illustrator, or Inkscape, you can tell it to select a join style. Usually you can choose between miter, round and bevel. Round resembles Photoshop, miter yields sharp corners. Especially when drawing hair, you may find that instead of a miter join, you get a bevel join (kind of a cut-off miter) - in that case increase the miter limit. Last note: actually a miter join is displayed in a lot of software like a bevel join with a little triangle, or miter (hence the name), attached. So for a join between two curves, the outside edge of the stroke starts as a curve, continuously changes in a line, at the tip the line changes direction, and later continuously changes in a curve. This may look ugly for very pointy joins, as you may well imagine. In that case a linked offset might come in handy. If you want a variable stroke width, it's often best to draw the inside and outside of the "stroke" as seperate paths.
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