- [Instructor] Here are some tips
for applying an art brush to type.
First of all, I'll come
to the brushes panel from the brushes library, artistic.
I'm going to use one from chalk charcoal pencil
and chalk scribble.
Click on that
and it will be added to your brushes panel.
I will select the type
and copy it now with the type that's left
I'm going to come
and lock that selection.
Then I will paste the copy in front
and convert that to outlines.
Now I'll come
and apply my brush
and change the color of the brush stroke.
Now that may be as far
as you need to go if you like this result
but it looks a little unorganic to me.
If you look at the tops of the letters
you can see that the top right
of each letter has a very lightweight of stroke.
So to give it a more organic feel,
I'm going to take it a bit further
with my direct selection tool.
I will swipe over my selection
and then let's, ungroup it.
I now want to break all of those anchor points.
The option that I want on my control panel
won't be available to me
unless I de-select one of my anchor points
with all but one of the anchor points selected.
I can now come and choose this option on the control panel
cut path at selected anchor points
and that will reapply the stroke
on a path by path basis.
Down here at the anchor point that I de-selected
the stroke is applied
to two sides.
So I might just want to with my scissors tool now come
and separate that into individual paths.
Now, if I still feel
like things are a little bit too uniform
if we look at the tops of the letters, for example
we can see that that stroke looks the same
in all cases.
Then here are some things that we can do to mix it up a bit.
Firstly, I'll just swipe across some
of the anchor points somewhat randomly,
then come to the object menu and choose path,
reverse path direction.
Then on a path by path basis
I can just select the path
and then come to my brushes panel
at the bottom click on options of selected object.
And I can choose to flip
across either the vertical or horizontal access.
Now, when I do it for the R
you can see that it affects the whole letter.
And that is because the R is a compound path.
So let me first of all,
just select all of the segments that make
up the R
and then I will release the compound path.
Now I'll be able to select an individual segment
and come and just flip
along one of those axes.
And I could also,
if I wanted to change the scale.
When I'm happy with the result,
I will need to come and unlock my type.
I should mention that my colored background is
on a separate layer, which is locked.
So that's not factored into the equation here
and then swipe over everything and group it together.