Stages please to create dashed 2px line

Hi,

I can see on the internet a way of creating a dashed line that follows a wavy path by choosing brush, altering spacing to e.g. 200% then adjusting dynamics to squish the shape flatter, then angle jitter 0% and control method to Direction, then draw a path and r/click in paths and stroke path, but I need to make such for a 2px wide line drawn with pencil tool. I need the dashes 12px long. How is it done ? What settings work as I cannot seem to use that method at all but perhaps I am doing it wrong ?

I wish Photoshop had by now created an option called dashed lines allowing use of brush or pencil tool to leave a trail of dashes. Such a fundamental drawing thing and nothing easy or obvious. My raster drawing has many straight and curved lines needing redrawing to such.

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Stages please to create dashed 2px line

Illustrator is made for drawing precise stuff, not Photoshop and it's very easy to do that sort of thing in it

In Photoshop you'll need to define a brush that looks like one of the dashes, change it's spacing and then stroke the path using the Brush Tool and then keep mucking around with the spacing value until you get what you want. I hope that there's a better way than that (in Photoshop) because it's not a very efficient way to work

Stages please to create dashed 2px line

You can pick a square brush that is 12 pixels in size, change the roundness to be whatever percentage of 12 will give you 2 pixels, and adjust the spacing to greater than 100%. You probably will want to go into the brush options in Shape Dynamics and change the Angle Jitter to Direction so that the brush will turn as your strokes turn. From there you could simply brush in your lines, or make paths as you were and stroke the paths.

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