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Drawing Lines and Shapes 177

You will see the following dialog:

The SCALING options determine how the brush is made to fit your line.

• STRETCH TO FIT STROKE LENGTH - by default the brush is stretched along the line to fit
the stroke.
• Choose the SCALE PROPORTIONATELY option if you want to keep the brush design in
proportion, ignoring the line width.
• REPEAT ALONG STROKE - rather than being stretched along the brush stroke, the brush
shape repeats along the stroke, precisely following its course and orientation.
The LINE COLOR options allow you to determine how the brush uses the current line color
attribute. For example, if your current line color is set to red and you choose a green
brush, do you want a red brush stroke or a green brush stroke?

• IGNORE (USE COLORS IN DEFINITION ONLY) This is the default option. The current line
color will be ignored when you draw with this brush and you’ll get the natural colors of
the brush. You can still change the line color of this brush stroke later if you want to,
using the Color editor (on page 193) or clicking a color on the color line (on page 190).
• MIX LINE COLOR WITH DEFINITION COLORS This option is intended for brushes that have
a strong hue, as in some of the default brushes provided. The strong hues in those
brushes will be replaced with your chosen color, but greyscale tones such as blacks,
whites, and greys remain unchanged.
• MIX LINE COLOR WITH DEFINITION GREYS This option is intended for greyscale brushes.
Shades of grey and shades of other colors in the brush will be replaced by
corresponding shades of your chosen line color. When you create a new grey brush,
this coloring option is selected for you by default.

Brushes are shared between documents - so when you change any of the above options
you are asked if you want the changes to apply to all the lines in all currently loaded
documents that use that brush - or just lines you have currently selected.

Use the SAVE AS button to make a new brush instead of modifying the current brush.