: Crispy stroke lines in Photoshop When I stroke a path, I always get antialiased lines (examples on the left in the image below), but I'd like to have pixel-perfect lines like the one (hand-drawn)

@Ogunnowo857

There is no option to disable anti-aliasing for shape layers.

What you can do:

If you've already drawn a path, but it's on a shape layer:


Select the shape layer.
Open Window > Paths.
Double click the selected path in that panel and give it a name ( This duplicates it. You could also right click and choose duplicate ).
Once it's duplicated, return back to Window > Layers.
Create a new layer.
With Pen tool, right click inside the document and choose: Stroke Path and select Pencil as the tool.


If you want to change the stroke that Pencil creates: before right clicking, take Pencil tool, edit the tool options, go back to Pen tool and continue with the steps above.

Delete the old Shape layer ( or hide it.. your call )


If you are beginning to draw a path:

Take the Pen tool and in the tool options ( top left ) there is a dropdown that says: Shape or Path (or if you're using Ellipse tool for instance, there's a third option called Pixel) select Path.

Also make sure that the layer you're going to be drawing the path on, is not a Shape layer because then the new path is just going to be tied to that shape layer and that could be troublesome.

Once the path is drawn: With Pen tool, right click inside the document and choose: Stroke Path and select Pencil as the tool.

If you want to change the stroke that Pencil creates: before right clicking, take Pencil tool, edit the tool options, go back to Pen tool and continue with the steps above.



Alternate methods

With the "shape tools", such as Ellipse tool, Rectangle tool, Rounded rectangle tool, etc... you can select Pixel from the dropdown from the tool options ( top left ) and then uncheck "Anti-alias". This is not something you can do with Pen tool.

Note that you could draw a shape with Pen tool and use Define custom shape, select the Custom shape tool and use the Pixel option to place the shape at any size with aliased edges. Not sure why you'd ever need to do this but I thought I'd mention it anyways.

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