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Work with feathering

Work with feathering - Illustrator Tutorial

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Work with feathering

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll check out the controls for adjusting feathering effects with Astute Graphics Stylism. First, I'll select an object, like this star, and then I'll click on the button in the Stylism panel with the feather icon. The feathering controls appear on my star, and I can see the effect. As I move my cursor near the controls, I can see the current radius value, which is set to 12 pixels, and I can drag the slider all the way down to the minimum value of .2 pixels, or all the way up to the maximum of 250. And, just like with the drop shadow controls, I can hold Shift as I drag to constrain to whole number values. And I can click or drag, and then hold Command or Control to enable the slow drag feature and get really precise results. Also like Drop Shadow, I can use the contour curve in the Stylism panel to adjust my feathering, and save my favorite curves by holding Option or Alt and clicking on…

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