Corn Brush Mini Tutorial

[Soquili]

Hi Ivan,

Those are beautiful ears of corn!! It isn't exactly what I had in mind, although I have seen some that look similar. You've exceeded my expectations!!

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[Mark Goodall]

Gary

If you want to vary the size of the brush along a path then apply a profile to the stroke and modify the pressure slider in the scaling tab of the edit brush dialogue to get exactly the ratio and profile you want.
The stroke profiles are all about scaling lines and brushes. This is one of the most powerful features of the stroke profiles!!!
(Freehand 10 pah!, we can have any shape!)

Mark Goodall
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[Mark Goodall]

Mark Goodall
Xara Ltd

[gwpriester]

Mark

I will have to give this a try.

As a reviewer I have to keep my opinions to myself and remain neutral.

But I think you can read my mind :-)

I can say that after applying an "interactive" envelope to the corn, you bow the center outwards, I had time to go to the local coffee shop and get a tripple latte and still have to wait when I returned.

Great tip. I'm off to give it a try.

Soquili

Gary

Gary Priester

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[ivan louette]

A gel corn! The original brush is not so saturated but the color depth is obtained in superposing several copies of the same brush with finally one or two with "luminosity" transparency.

The most interesting is that one can play with "hue" in brush filling properties!

Kind regards,

ivan

[ivan louette]

Here's the .xar file

[gwpriester]

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The stroke profiles are all about scaling lines and brushes. This is one of the most powerful features of the stroke profiles!!!
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Sheesh, I never realized that you could apply a brush to a stroked path. Not only that, I was not aware that I could use the Pressure settings without a pressure sensitive pad.

Anyway, thanks to you I have been able to genetically improve upon this ear of corn :-)

Gary

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

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[gwpriester]

(with an assist from Mark's tip)

Gary

Gary Priester

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Be It Rarely So Humble...

[Soquili]

MMMmmmmm...

Ivan, you are positively the "Brush Meister". Wonderful technique!!!!!!!!

Mark - could you explain what you said so an Old Indian can understand?

Gary - Love the buttered corn!!!

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[Mark Goodall]

In the freehand tool one has stroke profile control to give variable width strokes on normal lines, a very powerful feature, and they can be applied to lines which have brushes applied to them as well.

see attached file

Mark Goodall
Xara Ltd