Remove brush strokes, Convert brush strokes to outlines, Create or modify brushes – Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 User Manual
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Fill New Brush Strokes
Applies a fill to the path. This option is most useful when drawing closed paths.
Keep Selected
Determines whether Illustrator keeps the path selected after you draw it.
Edit Selected Paths
Determines whether you can change an existing path with the Paintbrush tool.
Within: _ pixels
Determines how close your mouse or stylus must be to an existing path to edit the path with the
Paintbrush tool. This option is only available when the Edit Selected Paths option is selected.
Remove brush strokes
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Select a brushed path.
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In the Brushes panel, choose Remove Brush Stroke from the panel menu or click the Remove Brush Stroke button
.
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In CS5, you can also remove a brush stroke by selecting the Basic brush from the Brushes panel or Control panel.
Convert brush strokes to outlines
You can convert brush strokes into outlined paths to edit the individual components of a brushed path.
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Select a brushed path.
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Choose Object > Expand Appearance.
Illustrator places the components of the expanded path in a group. Within the group are a path and a subgroup
containing the brush stoke outlines.
Create or modify brushes
You can create and customize calligraphic, scatter, art, pattern, and bristle brushes depending on your requirement. For
scatter, art, and pattern brushes, you must first create the artwork.
Follow these guidelines when creating artwork for brushes:
• The artwork cannot contain gradients, blends, other brush strokes, mesh objects, bitmap images, graphs, placed
files, or masks.
• For art and pattern brushes, the artwork cannot contain type. To achieve a brush-stroke effect with type, create an
outline of the type and then create a brush with the outline.
• For pattern brushes, create up to five pattern tiles (depending on the brush configuration), and add the tiles to the
Swatches panel.
Note: You can make the brushes you create available for every new document by adding the brush definition to the New
Document Profile. For more information on new document profiles, see
More Help topics
Create a brush
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For scatter and art brushes, select the artwork you want to use. For pattern brushes, you can select the artwork for
the side tile, but it isn’t necessary. For detailed guidelines to create pattern brushes, see
. To know more about pattern brush options, see
.