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Astute Graphics InkFlow

Astute Graphics InkFlow

- [Tony] Hi, and welcome to Design Tools Weekly with me, Tony Harmer. This week, we're going to check out something new from the company Astute Graphics. Now they make a whole suite of plugins for Illustrator and they are amazing. You can check them out actually here on LinkedIn. Mike Rankin has a course that will get you up and running with most of their products. But they're making so many so quickly now, it's actually kind of difficult to keep up. Well, here's the latest one. This is called InkFlow in Illustrator, and it's like a blob brush but with strokes. When you get the panel open, you've got four brushes at the top here. So there's like a fine liner or an ink pen just here, and that allows you to doodle quickly with it. It's a fantastic tool for doing that. But everything about the lines you created are editable. You can carry on changing the width of the stroke there. For example, you can change also the angle of the strokes. If I changed those two things together, I want to…

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