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Applying and editing a scatter brush - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Applying and editing a scatter brush
In this exercise, I am going to show you how to apply and modify the settings associated with the scatter brush. I've saved my changes as Art-brushed type.ai, and just to give you a sense of what a scatter brush, is I am going to switch over to the final version of the Illustration, Garment tag.ai. Notice that the green stroke around the text is riddled with these small yellow flowers, and those flowers are applied as a scatter brush. So the idea is that a single piece of artwork which may contain a bunch of different paths but is still one piece of artwork, is repeated over and over along a stroke, and it's scattered back and forth as well--hence the name scatter brush--but it also grows and shrinks and rotates and so forth. So it doesn't stretch along the path outline the way an art brush does; it repeats instead. All right! I am going to switch back over to my illustration at hand. My type is still selected, and I am going to make a few modifications here to my existing strokes. I…
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Outlines along a path1m 13s
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Weaving a pattern throughout an illustration6m 24s
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Introducing the Brushes panel4m 21s
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Applying and editing a calligraphic brush8m 28s
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Applying and scaling art brushes6m 6s
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Applying and editing a scatter brush5m 29s
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Formatting and scaling brushed text5m 40s
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Editing the path outlines of an art brush6m 1s
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Replacing an existing art brush6m 46s
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Creating and refining an art brush8m 3s
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Tiling pattern vs. pattern brushes5m 12s
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Creating a pattern brush8m 20s
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Designing the perfect side pattern7m 1s
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Start, end, and corner tiles8m 58s
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Expanding and filling brush outlines6m 49s
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Text brushes vs. type on a path6m 55s
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Combining a text brush with the Width tool8m 43s
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Introducing the bristle brushes5m 43s
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Adjusting the hairs in a bristle brush5m 24s
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