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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2
User Guide
Creating and modifying brushes
About creating brushes
You can create new calligraphic, scatter, art, and pattern brushes based on your own settings. For scatter, art, and
pattern brushes, you must first create the artwork you want to use. Follow these guidelines when creating artwork
for brushes:
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The artwork cannot contain gradients, blends, other brush strokes, mesh objects, bitmap images, graphs, placed
files, or masks.
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For art and pattern brushes, the artwork cannot contain type. To achieve a brush-stroke effect with type, create an
outline of the type and then create a brush with the outline.
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For pattern brushes, create up to five pattern tiles (depending on the brush configuration), and add the tiles to the
Swatches palette. (See “To create pattern swatches” on page 256.)
To create brushes
1
For scatter and art brushes, select the artwork you want to use. For pattern brushes, you can select the artwork for
the side tile, but it isn’t necessary.
2
Click the New Brush button
in the Brushes palette. Alternatively, drag the selected artwork to the Brushes
palette.
3
Select the type of brush you want to create, and click OK.
4
In the Brush Options dialog box, enter a name for the brush, set brush options, and click OK.
See also
“Calligraphic brush options” on page 240
“Scatter brush options” on page 240
“Art brush options” on page 241
“Pattern brush options” on page 241
“Colorization options for brushes” on page 242
To modify brushes
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To change the options for a brush, double-click the brush in the Brushes palette. Set the brush options and
click OK. If the current document contains brushed paths that use the modified brush, a message appears. Click
Apply To Strokes to change pre-existing strokes. Click Leave Strokes to leave pre-existing strokes unchanged, and
apply the modified brush to new strokes only.
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To change the artwork used by a scatter, art, or pattern brush, drag the brush into your artwork and make the
changes you want. Then Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the modified brush onto the original
brush in the Brushes palette.
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To modify a brushed line without updating the corresponding brush, select the line and click the Options Of
Selected Object button
in the Brushes palette. Set the options, and click OK.
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