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Create or modify brushes
You
can create new calligraphic, scatter, art, and pattern brushes based
on your own settings. For scatter, art, and pattern brushes, you
must first create the artwork you want to use. 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.
Create a brush- 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.
- Click
the New Brush button
 in
the Brushes panel. Alternatively, drag the selected artwork to the
Brushes panel.
- Select
the type of brush you want to create, and click OK.
- In
the Brush Options dialog box, enter a name for the brush, set brush
options, and click OK.
Modify a brush- To
change the options for a brush, double-click the brush in the Brushes
panel. Set the brush options and click OK. If the current
document contains brushed paths that use the modified brush, a message
appears. Click Apply To Strokes to change pre-existing strokes.
Click Leave Strokes to leave pre-existing strokes unchanged, and
apply the modified brush to new strokes only.
- To
change the artwork used by a scatter, art, or pattern brush, drag
the brush into your artwork and make the changes you want. Then
Alt‑drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the modified
brush onto the original brush in the Brushes panel.
- To
modify a brushed path without updating the corresponding brush,
select the path and click the Options Of Selected Object button
 in
the Brushes panel.
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