Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
apply brushes using a drawing tool, you select the tool and draw in the artwork. Then,
you select the path in the artwork and choose a brush in the Brushes panel. The brush is
applied to the selected path.
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An Art brush is made from artwork (vector or embedded raster). When you apply an
Art brush to the stroke of an object, the artwork in the Art brush, by default, is stretched
along the selected object stroke.
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To edit a path with the Paintbrush tool, drag over a selected path to redraw it. The
Keep Selected option keeps the last path selected as you draw with the Paintbrush tool.
Leave the Keep Selected option selected (the default setting) when you want to easily
edit the previous path as you draw. Deselect the Keep Selected option when you want
to draw layered paths with the paintbrush without altering previous paths. When Keep
Selected is deselected, you can use the Selection tool ( ) to select a path and then edit
it.
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In order to be used in certain brushes (Art, Pattern, and Scatter), a raster image must be
embedded.
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For Art and Scatter brushes, you need to have artwork selected in order to create a
brush using the New Brush button ( ) in the Brushes panel.
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Use the Blob Brush tool ( ) to edit filled shapes that you can intersect and merge
with other shapes of the same color or to create artwork from scratch.
