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Applying basic stroke settings - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 Essential Training
Applying basic stroke settings
A Stroke Attribute is what the actual path looks like. It's an appearance that you apply to the path. We've seen already some of the basic settings you can apply to a Stroke, and even how to color stroke. But let's take a closer look at all of its settings. I am going to zoom in on just this middle flower right here. I want to focus on this path right here and applying some kind of Stroke Attribute to it. Currently, this path has a Black 1-point stroke applied to it. And if we look at the Stroke panel we will see where it says Weight, it's currently set to 1 point. Again, that refers to this thickness of the Stroke itself. I'll click on this pop-up here and choose something like 10 points. Remember that Illustrator itself, by default, will always align the Stroke on the center line of the path. Again, because I have a 10-point Stroke, I am seeing 5 points of that weight being distributed on the inside of the path and 5 points along the outside of the path. When dealing specifically…
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Creating gradients with the Gradient panel8m 12s
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Modifying gradients with the Gradient Annotator4m 37s
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Applying and manipulating pattern fills5m 33s
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Defining your own custom pattern fills9m 13s
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Applying basic stroke settings5m 22s
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Creating strokes with dashed lines3m 41s
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Adding arrowheads to strokes2m 45s
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Creating variable-width strokes4m 35s
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Working with width profiles2m 36s
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Turning strokes into filled paths3m 49s
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