I have what I figured was a simple task, but I don't use photoshop ever, so it is proving to be difficult (for me).

I needed to make a dotted line. I figured that was simple enough, but no, it involves a several step "make a custom brush" process.

So ok, it wasn't all that difficult, and I figured that out.

However, what I want to do, is use the brush to create a rectangle. I can't figure out any way to do this. It seems to me brushes are only for use with the brush tool or pencil tool, and there is no way to say, apply the custom brush to the border of a rectangle.

Now a rectangle can have a "stroke" applied to it, giving it an outer border, but I can't pick my custom brush as the stroke style (im guessing because its a brush).

If I just make 4 straight lines using my brush, and make my own rectangle, it them becomes (from what I can tell) impossible to resize it as needed without distorting the actual brush dots.


So I guess the question is, how do I make a rectangle that is "dotted"

oh and its CS3 on Windows