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Introducing the Brushes panel

Introducing the Brushes panel - Illustrator Tutorial

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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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