Video Tutorial : Changable Colour Brushes

Something I knocked together today in response to some stuff people said on the thread about the brushes being finicky ... they are! But there's a way round it.

Nice video - very clear demonstration of how you achieve the organic feel... thanks JA :)

Thanks a lot, JA. Excellent video - much look forward to trying that.

Penny

Thanks, I can't wait to try it. It's such a pain to have to open the brush editor each time.

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Originally Posted by Judi A

Thanks, I can't wait to try it. It's such a pain to have to open the brush editor each time.

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If you create the brush like I show you in the video you don't have to, you can just change the colour whenever you want!

Nice clear video. Thanks JA.

That's a ten-star workaround on a five-star scale! Thanks!

(Too bad there is a need for it in the first place.)

And you still need to remake the brush to start with a new color - or am I still missing something here?

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Originally Posted by handrawn

And you still need to remake the brush to start with a new color - or am I still missing something here?

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No! That's rather the point, this works if you do it this way ... did you not watch it till the end ... where I open the colour editor and just change the colours on-the-fly.

I watched to the end - and noted that in order to lay down a 'brown' tree trunk - you used the same 'green' brush and then changed the color to 'brown' after laying down the line.

This is the big problem I have always had with the vector brushes in xara.

I might wish to use a brush that put down the brown from the start as I said - not change it [EDIT _typo] from green after the line is made.

So then do I not need to copy/paste out the brush shapes from the line gallery [right click on brush] make them a named 'brown' and then remake the brush with all the settings as they were for the 'green'?

This would be so much easier if you could export/ import the brush settings - but as far as I know you cannot.

Your method is very good - but it will always lay down the variant of the original fill clolor - this cannot be modified within the brush itself

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Originally Posted by handrawn

I watched to the end - and noted that in order to lay down a 'brown' tree trunk - you used the same 'green' brush and then changed the color to 'brown' after laying down the line.

This is the big problem I have always had with the vector brushes in xara.

I might wish to use a brush that put down the brown from the start as I said - not change it [EDIT _typo] from green after the line is made.

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Yeah you're right there ... that's true you can't change it before you use it. Which rather annoying.

Xara definitely need to sort out this problem!

Agreed :)

Excellent Video JA. Thanks for sharing the tip.

Yes, a most excellent job. It's always great to hear users' voices, and yours is great. Thanks for the well-done tut.