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    Default 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.

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    Nice video - very clear demonstration of how you achieve the organic feel... thanks JA
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    Thanks a lot, JA. Excellent video - much look forward to trying that.

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    Default Re: Video Tutorial : Changable Colour Brushes

    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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    Default Re: Video Tutorial : Changable Colour Brushes

    Quote Originally Posted by Judi A View Post
    Thanks, I can't wait to try it. It's such a pain to have to open the brush editor each time.
    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!
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    Default Re: Video Tutorial : Changable Colour Brushes

    Nice clear video. Thanks JA.
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    Default Re: Video Tutorial : Changable Colour Brushes

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

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

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    Default Re: Video Tutorial : Changable Colour Brushes

    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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    Default Re: Video Tutorial : Changable Colour Brushes

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    And you still need to remake the brush to start with a new color - or am I still missing something here?
    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.

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    Default Re: Video Tutorial : Changable Colour Brushes

    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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