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- [Instructor] In this movie,

I'll show you how to apply



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and customize scatter brushes.



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Specifically, we'll be applying

these white flower shapes



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right here, and I want you to

notice how they vary not only



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in terms of size, but also

in terms of their distance



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from each other, how far

they're allowed to stray away



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from the character outline,

and even their angle.



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I'll go ahead and switch over

to the document in progress,



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and just so we can see

everything nice and close up,



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I'll zoom in to the document

and I'll select that point text



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with my black arrow tool.



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Here inside the appearance panel

I'll select the top stroke,



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and then I'll go ahead and

add a new one by clicking



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on the Add New Stroke icon

in the bottom left corner



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of the panel.



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All right, now I'll bring

up the Brushes panel here,



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and notice this second row; it

contains the scatter brushes.



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Now obviously you could have

more rows of scatter brushes



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than this if you want.



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I just want you to see that

they appear second in the panel.



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Now I'll start with star four right here



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because I want you to

see that scatter brushes



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don't have to scatter.



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They just repeat.



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And to see why this one is not scattering,



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you can drop down to the dialog box icon



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at the bottom of the

panel and click on it,



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and you will see that everything

is fixed, as opposed to,



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for example, being set

to random, in which case



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a second option lights up,



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and I can now specify a little

bit of variation right here



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and turn on the Preview checkbox,



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and I will see the size of

those stars vary on the fly.



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Another interesting one

is this guy right here.



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It's called 6D scatter brush three,



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and it is a walk-on brush

that's specifically designed



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for their 6D stylus,

which provides essentially



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six dimensions of information.



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If you select it though,

and apply it to the text,



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I'll go ahead and change

the color of the stroke



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to, say, purple, it's not

going to look like much.



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It's going to look like some combination



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of a calligraphic brush and an

art brush and that's because



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if you were to click on the

dialog box option for this guy,



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you will see that the size

is linked to pressure,



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which doesn't do as any good

where text is concerned,



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and its spacing is fixed

and it's very tight indeed.



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I'll go ahead and turn

on the Preview checkbox,



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so you can see if I crank

this spacing value up,



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we start to see the scatter brush repeat.



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All right, one more

thing I want to show you



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before we get to the flowers.



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I'll go ahead and select his

guy right here, star two,



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and notice that it is

not getting colorized



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with the purple that I've

assigned to the stroke,



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and so if I were to click on

the little dialog box option,



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I'll see that the colorization

method is set to None.



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So if I turn on the Preview

checkbox and change it to Tints,



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then I'm brightening the

stars with that purple.



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If I change it to Tints and Shades,



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then I'm brightening and darkening,



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and if I switch to Hue Shift,



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I'm kind of scratching my head,

wondering what's going on.



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Well, as I was saying

before, you can click



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on this little lightbulb icon

and it's going to lay things out



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pretty nicely until you get to Hue Shift.



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Notice item three covers

Hue Shift, and it tells you



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that you need to select a

key color from the artwork



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using the key color eyedropper,



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and it even shows an

eyedropper in the graphic.



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The problem is there is no eyedropper.



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Well, it actually exists.



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It's just not inside this dialog box.



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What I'm going to do is cancel out here,



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and instead of clicking on

the little dialog box icon,



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which is going to modify

how the brush is applied



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to this specific path, I'll

double-click on the brush icon



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in order to edit the brush

and as you can see here,



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Method is still set to None,



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but if I were to switch to Hue Shift,



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I can see that I do have

a little eyedropper tool.



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Now you don't use it by

clicking outside the dialog box.



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Illustrator will just get

mad at you about that.



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There's nothing you can do

with this little color swatch



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there other than notice

that it's set to red.



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What you do instead is if you

want to change that color,



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you wander over here to the

preview and click inside,



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let's say, yellow in order to

select that as the base color.



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Notice that we're not seeing

any changes here on screen,



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and so what you have to do is click OK,



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and then click Apply to Strokes



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in order to make that change

occur, at which point,



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you will see some

strangely colorized stars.



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All right, but what we really

want is this guy right there,



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Random Sized Flowers, so

go ahead and select it,



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and let's change it back to white,



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so that the flowers are white.



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Now if you want to change

how these flowers are landing



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inside the illustration,

one option is to just click



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on that brush icon again, at which point,



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Illustrator will randomly

reapply those flowers,



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and it does so differently

than what we saw



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with the random calligraphic brush,



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and so in other words, as

opposed to the randomness



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being uniform, it is truly

random from one flower



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to the next.



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All right, but I want to

adjust a few settings,



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so I'll click on that

little dialog box icon



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at the bottom of the panel, and

I'm just going to mow through



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a few things here.



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Notice all of the options

are set to Random,



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and so I'm going to change

the first size value to 30%



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and take the second one up to 100%.



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Then for Spacing, I'll set

the values to 20 and 40%



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respectively, and this

is just stuff I came up



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through trial and error, and for Scatter,



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I'll go with negative 30,

so we can move the flowers



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inside the path outlines,

and I'll set the amount



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of variation to 40%, at which point,



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because the Preview checkbox is turned on,



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you can see those changes

applied on the fly.



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And assuming I like what I see,



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I'll go ahead and click OK in

order to accept that change.



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All right, finally I'll zoom

out by pressing control + 0,



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or command + 0 on the Mac, and then,



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we'll hide the Brushes

panel and I'll grab the fill



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here inside the Appearance

panel and I'm going to drag it



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to the top of the stack,



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so that those randomly

repeating flowers are taking up



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a little bit less of our attention.



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All right, I'll go ahead

and zoom on in as well,



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so just so you can see the

effect of changing the placement



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of the fill.



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This is before and this is after.



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And those are a few ways

to apply and customize



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scatter brushes here inside Illustrator.