584 Creating tinted arrowheads in Illustrator

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now last week, as you may recall,…I showed you how to create custom arrowheads…inside Illustrator.…This week I'm going to show you how to tint those arrowheads…and by tint, I mean that the colors are allowed…to get lighter.…So notice this shade of green gets lighter…inside the arrowhead, as does this shade of purple…and brown and so forth.…Now these things are going to automatically populate…inside your strokes panel.…You can create as many of them as you like.…They're globals so they travel across all open documents…and I should mention, if you create a custom arrowhead…inside your version of Illustrator…and then you give that illustration to somebody else,…the custom arrowheads will survive!…Here, let me show you how this exciting…and very old feature works.…

Now, as I mentioned last week, the hardest part…of creating your own custom arrowheads in Illustrator…is finding the arrowheads.ai file.…So, on the PC, you'll want to bring up a folder window,…