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Introducing the Brushes panel - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Introducing the Brushes panel
In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to the Brushes panel, as well as the five different kinds of brushes you have available to you inside of Illustrator. Now, you can think of most of the brushes as being kind of like symbols. That is, they're pre-created pieces of artwork that you can modify as well--you can create your own brushes--and those brushes either stretch or repeat along the length of a stroke. In order to bring up the Brushes panel, you either click on this Brushes icon here inside your panel strip, or you can go up to the Window menu and you can choose the Brushes command. You also have this simple keyboard shortcut of F5, and that's the same shortcut that brings up the Brushes panel inside of Photoshop. However you decide to get there, once you bring up the Brushes panel, you are going to see an extensive list of brushes that I've included along with this document. And just like swatches and symbols and graphic styles, brushes are saved along with the document…
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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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