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Creating and testing your art brushes

Creating and testing your art brushes - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating and testing your art brushes

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to save each one of our wiggly path outlines as a custom art brush. And then I'll show you how to apply those art brushes to our text and what to do in the event that we run into problems, which we will. All right, so notice that I've gone ahead and named each one of my experiments. So the first one is the Pathfinder object. The second one contains all the wiggly edges along with the transparent rectangle and the third one's just a copy of the second that I can adjust later if, and when I discover problems. All right, so I'll go ahead and select this first guy, and then I'll bring up the Brushes Panel. And now all you need to do is drag it and drop it into the panel like so. But I want you to notice one other option. Currently, we're seeing a little blue line before that chalk brush. Well, notice what happens if I press and hold the Alt key or the Option key on a Mac. I get…

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