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Hi! Welcome to this new video!
Let's begin
with basics of illustrator
Today I will describe
painting tools
Painting tools can realize
more interesting drawings
First remember how to change fill and stroke color of a path
Create a path with pen tool as described in the previous videos
Then you will change fill and stroke color
Select the shape you created
and select color in the panel in the right
It will appear a little window with color
You will see the two litte squares of color
fill and stroke color
Now select your color
You can change also the color method in options
Now the shape is colored
Zoom with Ctrl and +
as in photoshop
You can see the blue color for the path
You can set visible path color without zoom
Focus on the panel above
It will be useful
to change some settings of the shape
When you select the shape you will see in the panel
some values will change
It will appear the name of the object selected
Color, path type, opacity, position
height and widht
Control panel will show all of the settings
of the selected object
to make more visible blue path
Just change the width in the panel
Select a value that is bigger than one
Then you will see it
All drawings can be colored in any way
So you can create different types of shapes
and colored them how you want
Most important painting tools are brushes
Brushes, well- known in photoshop, are useful also in illustrator
We can improve an illustration with brushes
There are different types of brushes: calligraphic, art
pattern and scatter brushes
To use them you have to select in the brushes menu
in the right
It will appear a little window with some brushes preview
Now select one
There are two ways to use the brushes
Direct way: manual way
Select brush tool in the tool panel
and drag as with pencil tool
This is the brush tool in action
As the pencil tool you can create open or closed path
As in the previous video
to close the path just hold alt key
The other way to use brushes
It is to switch to another type of brush
select the shape
and then the brush you want in the menu
Brushes can be added in the brushes gallery where you can find others too
You can create your own brush and delete when you want it
You can also change the color of brushes
Finally there is also another tool
blob brush
To link two paths
it is necessary an empty stroke color
and a fill color that is the same of the blob brush
Now when you drag it will connect automatically to the main object
you can prove it selecting it
Then it is very important also opacity
and blending modes in the right panel
To apply opacity to an object first select it and then change it
Here you can find also the blending modes
You can see previews overlapping two shapes
There are many kind of blending modes
At last there is eraser tool
a slicing and cutting tool, useful to divide an object
For instance here you have it.
This shape is divided by eraser tool
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