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Variable-width strokes

Variable-width strokes - Illustrator Tutorial

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Variable-width strokes

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll introduce you to the exciting world of variable width strokes and illustrator and also show you how to customize those strokes using the width tool. So for starters, I'm going to click on this big thick green path outline right here and notice up here in the control panel we can see that the line weight is 50 points and right next door, we see the word uniform. And that indicates that the stroke is consistently 50 points along the entire path outline. But it doesn't have to be that way you can switch to a variable width stroke by clicking this down pointing arrow head right here and choosing one of these so-called width profiles such as width profile two. And now, we can see that the path gets thicker over here on the left-hand side and then it gets thin top right and then it thickens up again downright. Now the line weight value indicates the maximum thickness of the line. And so, if…

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