Reverse Brush Strokes

Tips and Tricks, Tricks | May 13th, 2008

Reverse Brush Strokes Thubmanil

I love using the Brush Tool (b), but hate trying to change the direction of them. Finally I found a quick way to change the direction of a single brush stroke without affecting other strokes associated with the same brush. First, select the path and then click on a endpoint with the Pen Tool (p), creating a new direction toward that point. Sadly, this trick only works on open paths.

Reversed Brush Strokes

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9 Responses to “Reverse Brush Strokes”

  1. n0s0ap says:
    May 13, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Nice tip. Don’t forget that button in the Brush Palette too. It has a few more handy options: http://img.skitch.com/20080513-b3bw9h4y7tkf15gba181pmmhnm.jpg

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  2. Dmitri says:
    May 13, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    Nice trick.

    Curve direction is unsolved problem in AI.

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  3. Nicolai Kjærgaard says:
    May 14, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Very useful tip!
    Thank you very, very much!

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  4. Rajita - Logo design says:
    May 18, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    I love these brush strokes.They will look good on a header

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  5. RODIX says:
    June 19, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    Thank you thank you thank you very very much…

    Really helpful,

    RDX out

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  6. Daniel Geraldi says:
    June 30, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    Nice Trick!
    Thanks!

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  7. tydesign says:
    March 15, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    Thanks! Awesome, I totally didn’t know this.

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  8. LLees says:
    September 22, 2009 at 6:19 am

    Love you. I’ve trying to figure that out for years.

    I knew Freehand had a pull down to switch direction of stroke, but couldn’t find anything for Illustrator.

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