Now if you paint with the Paintbrush tool, this new object will inherit the formatting, including brush style, color, opacity, and even the location in the stacking order within the Layers panel. Simply selecting an object will reset the “default” styles. Once you’ve created a few objects styled using brushes with various colors and/or opacities, you can simply select an object with the formatting closest to the one that you want to create. One thing that hasn’t changed much is how to quickly change between various brush styles. ![]() I’m sure there were other workflow improvements in InDesign, but as I set about to “just update the screenshots” and replace the word “palette” with “panel,” to my surprise I found that while the basics of painting with transparency color using the calligraphic brush hasn’t changed much, the methodology and workflow of setting up your workspace, and modifying options once you’re going, has actually changed a great deal. ai files), and 2) We’ve since updated all of the fonts we use to OpenType fonts. Two other things also struck me right away: 1) in CS we still placed Illustrator files as EPS (now we place native. ![]() The first thing I noticed (and appreciated) was that the InDesign CS files opened easily in InDesign CS6. That post is no longer active so I dug up the InDesign files from the CS book, to see if I could update the screenshots. A version of that lesson was also posted here on CreativePro. ![]() This “Blue vase with sunflowers” image was the subject of a detailed step-by-step lesson on transparency in The Adobe Illustrator 10 and CS WOW! books. While searching through my archives for art pieces to show in my new course for, Artistic Painting with Illustrator: Natural Media Brushes, I found this “watercolor” image created with transparent calligraphic brushes back in Adobe Illustrator 10, in 2002.
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