Wonderful solution! That had actually occurred to me but I tend to  
avoid Illustrator unless pressed to do so ; ). I will do this.

Thank you, Julianne!

Kathy


On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Julianne Snider wrote:

> You could make one scale in Illustrator then paste it into a  
> Photoshop layer as a vector object whenever you need it. It will  
> still be scalable and not lose its hard edges until you rasterize  
> that layer.
>
> Julianne
>
> Kathleen Garness wrote:
>> I'm doing some small spot technical illustrations in photoshop and  
>> want to add some of those lines that show scale - you know, the  
>> ones with a short horizontal line traveling away from the scale  
>> line, at top and bottom. Is there an easy, reproducible way to do  
>> this in photoshop besides making the lines manually in layers, and  
>> grouping them together? That seems kind of tedious, especially  
>> since I have over 50 of these to do in just a couple of weeks,  
>> overtime. It would be nice if there's a utility to accomplish  
>> this, along the lines of those nice little arrows that are part of  
>> the palette. ; ) Any suggestions as to how to streamline this are  
>> most welcome. I'm working right now in CS2 but am planning to  
>> install CS4 this week, if that's a better fit.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kathy
>>
>>
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