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Working with the Different Brush Types ..................................................170
Art brushes for times when you’re a bit wacky .............................170
Scatter brushes for times when you’re a bit wacky ......................172
Pattern brushes — too cool and utterly wacko .............................176
Calligraphic brushes for formal occasions .....................................181
Chapter 10: Extreme Fills and Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Messing Around with Meshes ....................................................................185
Adding a gradient mesh manually ...................................................187
Letting gradient mesh do the work for you ....................................188
Creating soft bevels with Gradient Mesh ........................................189
Making Objects Partially Transparent and Blending Colors ..................191
Fade away with opacity .....................................................................191
Big fun with math! Blending graphics with blend modes .............192
Discovering How Strokes Work .................................................................193
Caps, joins, and dashes .....................................................................194
Clipping Masks .............................................................................................197
Chapter 11: Effectively Keeping Up Appearances, with Style(s). . . .199
The Effect Menu ...........................................................................................200
Applying live effects to objects ........................................................201
3D Effects ............................................................................................203
Removing and changing effects .......................................................204
Rasterization effects ..........................................................................205
The Appearance Panel ................................................................................206
Reading the Appearance panel ........................................................207
Adding lls and strokes .....................................................................209
Changing the appearance of groups and layers ............................211
Applying effects to strokes and lls ................................................214
Going back to adjust settings ...........................................................215
Removing appearances .....................................................................215
Killing live effects until they’re dead ...............................................216
Figuring Out Styles ......................................................................................217
Applying styles to objects ................................................................217
Creating and editing styles ...............................................................218
Spotting the difference between graphic and text styles .............221
Applying graphic styles to text ........................................................221
Part III: Taking Your Paths to Obedience School......... 223
Chapter 12: Pushing, Pulling, Poking, and Prodding . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Understanding the Five Transformation Sisters ......................................225
Move .................................................................................................... 226
Scale .....................................................................................................227
Rotate ..................................................................................................230
Re ect ..................................................................................................230
Shear ....................................................................................................232
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