From the course: Illustrator: Using Wacom Tablets
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Symbolism tools
- So I've opened up the Steampunk_symbol document from your exercise files, and what we're going to do now is we're going to use the Symbolism tools to add more of a textured background to this image. Over in my Layers panel, I'm gonna make sure that I'm on the Shadow layer. And what this is gonna do is, we're gonna add in some texture in the Background between the model and the locked Background. I've actually loaded up a symbol in our Symbols panel, and it's this really nice texture of concrete. So we're gonna add that in. Now, instead of dragging this out one by one, which would take a really long time, and really be hard to control, we're gonna switch over to the Symbolism tools, which are located over in our toolbar here. Double clicking on the tool will open up the Symbolism options. For the Intensity, instead of having this Fixed, I'm actually going to allow it to be controlled by the Pressure of the pen on the Wacom tablet. And then hit OK. There are a lot of other tools…
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