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New tile order in Brush dialog
The CC Pattern Brush Options dialog displays a new order of tiles.
Corner tiles for pattern brushes
Corner tiles have been a stumbling block for many of us when we create pattern brushes.
Illustrator CC has partially addressed the problem by providing auto-generated corner tiles.
Whenever you create a side tile for a pattern brush, you can click on the down arrow beside
an inner or outer corner tile field and choose from four tiles that Illustrator generates:
Auto-Centered, Auto-Between, Auto-Sliced, and Auto-Overlap.
Plus, if you like an auto-generated corner, you can reuse it as a corner for another pattern
by dragging it out of one brush and into another (see the “Hearts” example Steuer Hearts ).
See Lisa Jackmore's “Castle Brush” in the CC gallery section later in this chapter to learn
how to extract a corner for use with another brush.
When one of these auto-generated corners works for the brush, you don't have to do
anything more than choose it for your corner(s), but if it isn't quite right, you still either edit
the corner or create a corner from scratch. You can also simply try eliminating the corners,
rounding the path instead (see Sharon Steuer's “Paper Dolls” in the CC gallery section later
in this chapter). You can find more examples of rasters in brushes, as well as more about
auto-corners, in the lessons and galleries both in the CC section at the end of this chapter
and in the CC section at the end of the Mastering Complexity chapter.
SHARON STEUER (from her “Artistic Painting with Illustrator”course on
lynda.com )
In this exa mple from Sharon Steuer's “Artistic Painting with Illus-
trator” course on lynda.com , she liked the
auto corner generated by her heart pattern
(top) better than the auto-corner generated
by the “fixed” heart pattern (middle); for the
final she manually replaced the “fixed” auto-
corner with the one generated by the original
(see Lisa Jackmore's “Castle Brush” gallery
later in this chapter for details on how to do
this)
 
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