Pressure sensitivity and brushes

Brushes
let you apply patterns to lines and the outlines of shapes. If you have a pressure sensitive input device (such as a graphics tablet), you can give the brush design either variable transparency or variable sizing (or both). Even if you don't have a graphics tablet you can use stroke shapes
to simulate the pressure sensitive effect.

Using a graphics tablet

1. Select the Freehand & Brush Tool.

2. From the Select brush drop-down list select the brush design you want to use (see Notes).

3. Draw the line - more details.

Using stroke shapes

1. Draw the line using any of the drawing tools - see Drawing lines.

2. Select the Freehand & Brush Tool.

3. From the Select brush drop-down list select the brush design you want to use (see Notes).

4. From the Select stroke drop-down list select the stroke shape/pressure profile you want to use.

Note:

The default brushes have either transparency or sizing controlled by pressure. (The exception is Normal line which is used to remove any applied brush stroke.)

You can change how much sensitive the brush is to pressure. You can also change whether pressure controls size or transparency (or both) - see Editing brushes.

Using a stroke shape overrides any pressure information from a graphics tablet.

Movie—click below (not working in this version)

Pressure sensitivity

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Related Topics

Line

Brushes

Stroke shapes