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Designing the perfect side pattern - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Designing the perfect side pattern
In this exercise, I am going to show you the best approach to creating a tile pattern that will successfully serve as a side tile inside a pattern brush, and it hinges on the use of a few path operations, including one that I don't use very often because it's so darn static, which is a crop operation inside the Pathfinder panel. I've saved my progress as Big bad Zed.ai and we're going to ignore the fact that the Z over here on the right-hand side looks so appallingly bad, and I am going to have you scroll down to the bottom of the illustration and once again zoom in. And we are going to go ahead and take this object here, this group, and we're going isolate it by double-clicking anywhere on any of those selected path outlines. Now what I'd like you to do is take this big rectangle right here and just get rid of it. Or if you like, you can just kind of move it aside for a moment and then grab the invisible rectangle, which will mean of course since it's invisible and hard to find that…
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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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