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With just a few adjustments to her designs, Lisa Jackmore was able to very quickly
make variations to her pattern brushes.
Shown below
are several pattern brush
variations created for the
She Only Wears Perfume
, which are then applied to circle
paths above.
JACKMORE
Lisa Jackmore
Lisa Jackmore found inspiration for this Pattern Brush in a steel-beamed ceiling.
She saved a raster image detail of the beam as a PNG image (
Steel Beam Image
)
in Photoshop, then opened it in Illustrator. Jackmore dragged the embedded image
to the Brushes panel and selected Pattern Brush in the New Brush dialog. In Pattern
Brush Options she kept the default Scale and Spacing. She only needed Outer
Corners for a frame, so for this pattern she chose Auto-Sliced and Approximate
Path, named it, and clicked OK. She made and selected a rectangle, then clicked
on the pattern brush in the Brushes panel and applied the brush. Jackmore was
aiming for a seamless pattern that didn't distort the image; this attempt was pretty
close, but not quite perfect (
First Corner Attempt
).
