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I was needing brushes that were not splatters or abstract clouds and logged on and saw this post. Thank you for continuing to keep design fresh
this is AWESOME... I was thinking about scatter brushes today.
Damn... LOL
Cheers!
J
I'm a Photoshop only person
*sigh.
Thanks Again for a producing such a great blog.
It’s not actually on the stylus; from what I know this option can be used with older Graphire tablets witch had a wheel for varied the thickness of the stoke because it didn’t have the ability to register the pen tilt, witch also applies for the newer Bamboo series.
I’m not 100% sure of this information, but I know that I got a Graphire for my brother and that’s what I understood from the instruction manual. I my self have a Bamboo fun and I know for sure it does not register the tilt, and has no options for it in the preference panel.
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oh and the brushes make for an excellent solution to boring text! ty.
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keep on with the keepin on!
Tori
My trick from this point is to copy the text and stroke and paste them in front (⌘+F) of your art. Turn the text to outlines (⌘+Shift+O) and for the stroke use (Object > Expand Appearance) to make the scatter an object. Then use pathfinder to union the text out lines first, union/exclude/intersect (your choice) the expanded stroke second, and finally intersect the text object and stroke object.
You will wind up with partially destroyed text pieces to fill in some of the original text that had been destroyed by the original stroke. From here you can set it to fill the original text colour. This maintains readability while keeping the destroyed look. Alternatively you could set the fill to transparent and the stroke colour to match the text colour for a spider-webbed glass look. Or if it's still not destroyed enough, you can set the scatter object outline to yet another scatter brush.
This keeps the text readable by replacing removed sections inside the path of the text.
If you select "Tint" in the color selection, it will let you change the color or shade of your brush strokes just by changing the line color in your color pallet.
You can change the effects of any of these brushes while you are using them simply by changing the stroke weight/line weight. By default, programs like Illustrator set the brushstroke application to a 1 point stroke, so if you want it larger (wider) or smaller (narrower) just changing the stroke by even a fraction of a point different than the original line will change the look quite a bit. and copying the line, and pasting in front, then changing the line weight, stroke color, etc., will let you get even wilder effects
You can do the above 'til you get the desired look, and if you wish, make a new brush from the results of your layered paths/strokes.
By selecting the "brushed" lines, and expanding them, you have made it possible for you to now select the whole bunch of elements, or maybe just a select few to create a new brush, be it an art brush, scatter brush, or pattern brush.
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Similar, if not as refined/technical as yours.
Matt