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- [Instructor] In this movie,

I'll show you how to revise



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an art brush so it better

suits the needs of your image.



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In our case, of course, we

have these scribbly end points



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that we need to deal with.



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I'll switch over to the layers panel, and



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I'll once again turn off

the big type in base layers



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and then I'll go ahead and turn on



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choc alts right there so that

we can see the third one.



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Then I'll go ahead and

select it and zoom on in and



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I need to zoom in quite far, by the way.



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And now, just so I can see

that invisible path outline,



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I'm going to switch to the

outline mode by going to



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the view menu and choosing

the outline command,



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which as you'll recall

has a keyboard shortcut of



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control Y or command Y on a Mac



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and then I'll press the A key to switch



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to the white arrow tool and

I'll go ahead and marquis these



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anchor points right here

in order to select them.



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And now I'll press the backspace

key, or the delete key on



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a Mac to get rid of those extra points.



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And so what I need to do

is take those points and



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shave them away to create

a kind of lump, and



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I'll do that by switching

to the pen tool, which



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of course, I can get

by pressing the P key.



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And then I'll drag out, like so, while



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pressing the shift key and

then I'll finish things off by



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dragging back inward while

pressing the shift key as well



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so we get this nice smooth edge.



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Alright, now let's try things

on the other side which



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is pretty far away by now, so

I'm going to have space bar drag



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several times here.



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And then I'll press and



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hold the control key or the

command key on the Mac to



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temporarily grab my last used

arrow tool, which appears to



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be the white arrow and I'll

go ahead an marquis these



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points like so and then I'll

press the backspace key or



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the delete key on the Mac

to get rid of them, and



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then I'll shift drag out from here.



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And the reason I'm pressing

the shift key is to



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constrain the angle of

my control handle to



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exactly horizontal.



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And now I will finish the shape by



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shift dragging in like so.



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Alright now let's go ahead

and save this guy out



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as an art brush by pressing

the V key to switch back to



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the black arrow tool, and

I'll just partially marquis



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both the wiggly path and

the invisible rectangle, and



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I'll just go ahead and drag

and drop these guys into the



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brushes panel.



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I'll select art brush,

click okay, go ahead



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and paste in that name for

choc alt three, change the



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colorization method to

tints, and then click okay.



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Alright, I suspect we need to

zoom out a little bit here,



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after which point, I'll go ahead

and turn this layer off and



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I will turn the big type

and base layers on, and



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we are really still zoomed in there.



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We're also looking at the

document in the outline mode, so



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I'll press control Y or

command Y in the Mac to



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switch back to the preview mode.



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I'll click on the text

object to select it, and



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then I'll switch back

to the appearance panel.



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I'll select that bottom orange stroke, and



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I'll select my most recently

created brush, which



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of course, is choc alt three,



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and while that looks better,

we don't have spikes anymore,



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we do have a couple of big lumps.



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And I suspect that these



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lumps are visible over here at

the intersection of the R and



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the I, they are, and down

here at the bottom of the K.



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And that tells me that

those rounded caps that



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I was trying to create

manually with the pen tool are,



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believe it or not, too big.



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Alright, so I'll just go ahead

and scroll over to this area,



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where I know my shapes are

lurking on a different layer, and



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I'll switch back to the layers panel,



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turn those two layers

right there off, turn the



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choc alts layer on, zoom in, of course,



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and this time I'm going to go

ahead and press the A key to



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switch to my white arrow tool.



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I'll actually press control or command Y,



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once again, to switch to the outline mode.



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I'll click on this edge, and



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I can either drag it in,

like so, and I'm pressing the



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shift key while I do so, or

I'll go ahead and show you a



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different method over here.



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I could click on this segment,



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so you just want to click

on the curved segment and



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press the right arrow key,

perhaps a couple of times to



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make this guy smaller, and I'm

not sure if I want it to be



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this small, so I'll just drag it out a



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little bit while pressing the

shift key, once again, then



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I'll press the V key to switch

back to the black arrow tool,



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I'll partially marquis these

shapes, I'll grab them and



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drag them and drop them into

the brushes panel, I'll select



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art brush, click okay, call

this guy choc alt four, and



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change its method to tints once again.



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Click okay to seal the deal,



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turn off the choc alts layer, turn on



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the other two layers, press

control Y or command Y on



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a Mac to switch back to

the preview mode, click on



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a text to select it, switch

back to the appearance panel,



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so this takes a little bit of effort.



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Click on that bottom stroke right there



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in order to select it, and then go ahead



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and select choc alt four.



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Of course, by the way, you could just



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select that same item from this



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pop up menu right here directly

inside the appearance panel,



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after which point, things

look a heck of a lot better.



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We still have a little

bit of rounding there, but



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that's okay, it's in keeping

with the lumpiness of



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the art brush in general.



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Things are looking a lot better at



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the intersection of the R and

the I, down here at the bottom



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as well as the bottom of the K.



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And that's how you refine

a custom art brush, or



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any custom brush, for that

matter, to better suit



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the ends and the caps of a path outline or



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live editable text,

here inside Illustrator