Applying Brush Strokes and Spraying

Application of brush strokes

You can apply a variety of preset brush strokes, ranging from strokes with arrowheads to ones that are filledwith rainbow patterns. When you draw a preset brush stroke, you can specify some of its attributes. For example, you can change the width of a brush stroke and specify its smoothness.

You canalso createcustom brush strokes by using an object or a group of vector objects. When you create a custom brush stroke, you can save it as a preset.

To apply a preset brush stroke

·    
Open the Curve flyout

·     
click the Artistic media
tool

·     
Click the Brush button on the property bar.

·     
Choose a brush stroke from the Brush stroke list box.

·     
If you want to smooth the edges of the brush stroke, type a value in the Freehand smoothing
box on the property bar.

·               
drag until the stroke is the shape you want.

·     
If you want to set the width of the stroke, type a value in the Artistic media tool
width box on the property bar.

If you have access to a brush stroke that isn’t listed in the Brush
stroke list box, you can apply it by clicking the Browse button on the property bar, and locating the brush stroke file.

To create a custom brush stroke

·     
Select an object or a set of grouped objects.

·    
Open the Curve flyout

·     
click the Artistic media
tool                                     

·     
Click the Brush
button on the property bar.

·     
Click the object or grouped objects.

·     
Click the Save artistic media stroke button    on the property bar.

·     
Type a filename for the brush stroke.

·     
Click Save.

Custom brush strokes can be accessed from the Brush stroke list box on the property bar.

To delete a custom brush stroke, choose the brush stroke from the Brush
stroke list box on the property bar, and click the Delete button                         .

You can create custom brush strokes by clicking Effects Artistic media and specifying the settings
you want in the Artistic media docker.

Spraying objects along a line

·        you can spray a series of objects in a line. Besides graphic and text objects, you can import bitmaps and symbols to spray along a line.

·     
You can control how a sprayed line appears by adjusting the spacing between objects, so they are closer or farther apart from each other. You can also vary the order of objects in the line. For example, if you are spraying a series of objects that includes a
star, a
triangle, and a square, you can change the spray order so that the square appears first, followed by the triangle and then the star. CorelDRAW also allows you to shift the position of objects in a sprayed line by rotating them along the path or offsetting them in one of four different directions: alternating, left, random, or right. For example, you can choose a left offset direction to align the objects you spray to the left of the path.

·     
You can also create a new spraylist with objects of your own.

                                  

To spray a line

·       Open the Curve flyout

·    
Click the Artistic media tool

·     
Click the Sprayer button  on the property bar.

·     
Choose a spraylist from the Spraylist file list box on the property bar.

·     
If the spraylist you want is not listed, click the Browse button on the property bar to select the folder in which the file is located.

·     
Drag to draw the line.

Use the property bar to adjust size of
spray, the number of objects spray, or spacig between dabs or seting the spray
order.

·     
Adding the value for the size of spray objects along the line causes objects to become larger as they are distributed along the path.

·     
Spraylists that have more complex objects use more system resources. CorelDRAW needs
more time to produce lines when complex objects are used, and these objects increase the file size. Using symbols for each group in the list can help reduce file size and ease the demands on your system..

How To rotate the lines that you spray

·     
Select the spraylist that you want to adjust.

·     
Click the Rotation
button on the property bar.

·     
Type a value between 0 and 360 in the Angle
box on the property bar.

·     
If you want each object in the spray to rotate incrementally, enable the Use
Increment check box and type a value in the Increment box.

·     
Enable one of the following options:

•
Path based — rotates objects in relation to the line

•  
Page based — rotates objects in relation to the page

•  
Press Enter.

To offset the lines that you spray

•  
Select a spraylist.

•  
Click the Offset
button     on the property bar.

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Enable the Use offset check box to offset objects from the path of the line sprayed. If you want to adjust the offset distance, type a new value in the Offset box.

•  
Choose an offset direction from the Offset direction
list box.

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If you want to alternate between the left and right of the line, choose Alternating.

To create a new spraylist

•
Click Effects

•  
Click Artistic media.

•      Select an object, a set of grouped objects, or a symbol.

•
Click the Save button on the Artistic
media
docker.

•  
Enable Object sprayer.

•  
Click OK.

•  
Type a filename in the Filename box.

•  
 Click Save.

Spraylists are saved as CorelDRAW (CDR) files and can be accessed from the Spraylist file list box on the Artistic media property bar.