Level: Intermediate | Photoshop: 6, 7

Making Wire Frames

On a white canvas, create a shape using any of the selection tools. Polygon lasso works best. Step 1
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Now stroke the selection (edit>stroke) with black and select the entire outline with the rectangular marquee.

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Figure 02

Now you'll need to save this outline as a brush. On your brushes palette, click on the arrow and select define brush.

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Figure 03
Your new brush will appear in the brushes palette near the bottom. It's always the one on the farthest right. Now just double click the brush twice and you will then see a brush options window. Reduce the spacing down to 5 % or less. Figure 04
Figure 04
Since you made the brush out of the outline you made, you don't need it anymore, so completely erase the background by selecting background color white and pressing ALT+Backspace on the background layer.

Then select the brush and use any of the drawing tools (airbrush, paint brush, or pencil) and brush around to get some a pseudo Wire Frame.

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Figure 05

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