- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to apply
and customize scatter brushes.
Specifically, we'll be applying these white flower shapes
right here, and I want you to notice how they vary not only
in terms of size, but also in terms of their distance
from each other, how far they're allowed to stray away
from the character outline, and even their angle.
I'll go ahead and switch over to the document in progress,
and just so we can see everything nice and close up,
I'll zoom in to the document and I'll select that point text
with my black arrow tool.
Here inside the appearance panel I'll select the top stroke,
and then I'll go ahead and add a new one by clicking
on the Add New Stroke icon in the bottom left corner
of the panel.
All right, now I'll bring up the Brushes panel here,
and notice this second row; it contains the scatter brushes.
Now obviously you could have more rows of scatter brushes
than this if you want.
I just want you to see that they appear second in the panel.
Now I'll start with star four right here
because I want you to see that scatter brushes
don't have to scatter.
They just repeat.
And to see why this one is not scattering,
you can drop down to the dialog box icon
at the bottom of the panel and click on it,
and you will see that everything is fixed, as opposed to,
for example, being set to random, in which case
a second option lights up,
and I can now specify a little bit of variation right here
and turn on the Preview checkbox,
and I will see the size of those stars vary on the fly.
Another interesting one is this guy right here.
It's called 6D scatter brush three,
and it is a walk-on brush that's specifically designed
for their 6D stylus, which provides essentially
six dimensions of information.
If you select it though, and apply it to the text,
I'll go ahead and change the color of the stroke
to, say, purple, it's not going to look like much.
It's going to look like some combination
of a calligraphic brush and an art brush and that's because
if you were to click on the dialog box option for this guy,
you will see that the size is linked to pressure,
which doesn't do as any good where text is concerned,
and its spacing is fixed and it's very tight indeed.
I'll go ahead and turn on the Preview checkbox,
so you can see if I crank this spacing value up,
we start to see the scatter brush repeat.
All right, one more thing I want to show you
before we get to the flowers.
I'll go ahead and select his guy right here, star two,
and notice that it is not getting colorized
with the purple that I've assigned to the stroke,
and so if I were to click on the little dialog box option,
I'll see that the colorization method is set to None.
So if I turn on the Preview checkbox and change it to Tints,
then I'm brightening the stars with that purple.
If I change it to Tints and Shades,
then I'm brightening and darkening,
and if I switch to Hue Shift,
I'm kind of scratching my head, wondering what's going on.
Well, as I was saying before, you can click
on this little lightbulb icon and it's going to lay things out
pretty nicely until you get to Hue Shift.
Notice item three covers Hue Shift, and it tells you
that you need to select a key color from the artwork
using the key color eyedropper,
and it even shows an eyedropper in the graphic.
The problem is there is no eyedropper.
Well, it actually exists.
It's just not inside this dialog box.
What I'm going to do is cancel out here,
and instead of clicking on the little dialog box icon,
which is going to modify how the brush is applied
to this specific path, I'll double-click on the brush icon
in order to edit the brush and as you can see here,
Method is still set to None,
but if I were to switch to Hue Shift,
I can see that I do have a little eyedropper tool.
Now you don't use it by clicking outside the dialog box.
Illustrator will just get mad at you about that.
There's nothing you can do with this little color swatch
there other than notice that it's set to red.
What you do instead is if you want to change that color,
you wander over here to the preview and click inside,
let's say, yellow in order to select that as the base color.
Notice that we're not seeing any changes here on screen,
and so what you have to do is click OK,
and then click Apply to Strokes
in order to make that change occur, at which point,
you will see some strangely colorized stars.
All right, but what we really want is this guy right there,
Random Sized Flowers, so go ahead and select it,
and let's change it back to white,
so that the flowers are white.
Now if you want to change how these flowers are landing
inside the illustration, one option is to just click
on that brush icon again, at which point,
Illustrator will randomly reapply those flowers,
and it does so differently than what we saw
with the random calligraphic brush,
and so in other words, as opposed to the randomness
being uniform, it is truly random from one flower
to the next.
All right, but I want to adjust a few settings,
so I'll click on that little dialog box icon
at the bottom of the panel, and I'm just going to mow through
a few things here.
Notice all of the options are set to Random,
and so I'm going to change the first size value to 30%
and take the second one up to 100%.
Then for Spacing, I'll set the values to 20 and 40%
respectively, and this is just stuff I came up
through trial and error, and for Scatter,
I'll go with negative 30, so we can move the flowers
inside the path outlines, and I'll set the amount
of variation to 40%, at which point,
because the Preview checkbox is turned on,
you can see those changes applied on the fly.
And assuming I like what I see,
I'll go ahead and click OK in order to accept that change.
All right, finally I'll zoom out by pressing control + 0,
or command + 0 on the Mac, and then,
we'll hide the Brushes panel and I'll grab the fill
here inside the Appearance panel and I'm going to drag it
to the top of the stack,
so that those randomly repeating flowers are taking up
a little bit less of our attention.
All right, I'll go ahead and zoom on in as well,
so just so you can see the effect of changing the placement
of the fill.
This is before and this is after.
And those are a few ways to apply and customize
scatter brushes here inside Illustrator.