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Hold down Shift as you click or drag to keep the amount of style constant, while
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gradually changing the symbol instance style to the selected style.
Note: It is very important to perform steps 1 and 2 in the specified order. If you select a
style while a tool other than the symbolism tools is selected, the style will apply immedi-
ately to the entire selected symbol instance set.
Drawing and editing brushed paths
The Brushes palette in Illustrator contains four brush types—Calligraphic, Scatter, Art, and
Pattern brushes—to use in adding art to paths. You can choose from the brush effects that
have been preloaded into the Brushes palette. You can also modify these brushes, create
brushes, or import a brush from the Brush Libraries to the Brushes palette.
Brushes that you create and store in the Brushes palette are associated only with the
current file. Each Illustrator file can have a different set of brushes in its Brushes palette.
You can achieve the following effects using the four brush types:
Calligraphic brushes create strokes that resemble strokes drawn with the angled point
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of a calligraphic pen, drawn along the center of the path.
Scatter brushes disperse copies of an object (such as a ladybug or a leaf ) along the
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path.
Art brushes stretch an object or artwork (such as an arrow or dog bone) evenly along
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the length of the path.
Pattern brushes paint a pattern—made of individual tiles—that repeats along the path.
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Pattern brushes can include up to five tiles, for the sides, inner corner, outer corner,
beginning, and end of the pattern.
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Sample brushes
A. Calligraphic brush B. Scatter brush C. Art brush D. Pattern brush
Drawing a brushed path with the paintbrush tool
The paintbrush tool creates paths painted with a brush selected in the Brushes palette.
You must select a brush in the Brushes palette to use the paintbrush tool.
To draw a path with the paintbrush tool:
1 Choose Window > Brushes to display the Brushes palette, and select a brush from the
Brushes palette.
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