- Plug-in toolbox to paint on selected effects; easy to use; easy to apply; use to create one-off effects
- 19 Plug-ins with multiple options.
- Select and apply the brush stroke
- Modify scaling, rotation, opacity, point dragging and distortion, colors, stroke width, color intensity, tinting, gradients, color to gradient mesh, warping mesh...
- Includes many unique brush wand designs
- Modify paths, images, meshes, symbols ...
- Apply in controlled manner; randomized; accumulative; pressure modified.
- Bonus: symbols + brushes
Set includes
The plugin set comes with 19 toolbox plugins, all superb interactive effects packed with many options
1) Scale tool. Shrink or increase the size of the selected paths (can be images etc as well) by applying the brush stroke
2) Translation tool. Shift or apply jitter to the paths in a particular direction or random directions
3) Rotation tool. Apply angular rotation to the paths or images or symbols
4) Transparency tool. Apply a fading effect to the selected paths brushed, so if you want to fade away a set of paths at the bottom of the image, select, apply the brush stroke to those paths. Or set to a particular transparency
as well as other options
5) Stroke width tool. Apply a change to the stroke weight of the paths (if they have a stroke). Creates sketchy and random-like effects
to illustrations
6) Fill Intensity/brightness tool. The plugin applies a brightness or darkness to the selected Illustrator paths (or images or symbols), create
hot spots or darken an illustration in certain parts.
7) Fill channel tool. Plugin is packed with many options to create weird and wonderful color shifts
to any selection of paths in a wide variety of ways.
8) Styles and styles scaling tool. Simply brush on random styles or set style and set scaling of styles. The plugin uses the current graphic styles stored in the document styles palette. These styles can be 3D / scribble / color / plugin effects and many more.
9) Blend mode tool. Apply a blend mode, random or set, such as apply difference to one section of an illustration or multiply to another. Great for creating unusual color illustrations
10) Color reducer/blur tool. Take a set of colors and then slowly smudge or blur or average out the colors selected. Great for reducing the colors in an illustration
11) Points manipulation tool. Plugin modifies the direction points of paths, creating square shapes out of circular.
12) Swatches tool. Apply swatches from the current swatches palette,
filling an illustration with a common color scheme. If you want an illustration filled with all blues, then simply select a palette with all blues and then paint, the old colors will be removed and
replaced randomly (or set) swatches
13) Tints tool. Applies random or changing tints to tinted paths
14) Gradient angle/length tool. If the path has a gradient, the gradient angle and length of the gradient can be changed by a simple brush stroke, great for create subtle changes or totally wow gradient colorful variations. The plugin
also can manipulate hilites as well
15) Pattern tool. If the current selected path contains a pattern, the pattern tool modifies the pattern angle and other elements in a variety of ways.
16) Quick shrink tool. Lens effects, scales objects based around the centre of the brush.
17) Point shifter tool. Use the plugin to drag and shift individual points on a path (only
works on paths with points so not for images etc). Superb for hi-impact warp effects and more. Superb with converted text
18) Mesh tool. Apply to a mesh, brush on color (controlled or randomized) onto a gradient mesh
19) Warp mesh tool. Apply distortion to mesh nodes of a warp mesh, use to create truly unique image and path distortions in seconds.
Apply
vectorwand plug-in to
1) Images
2) Standard path
3) Multiple paths
4) Symbols
5) Gradients
6) Symbol text and many more
7) Meshes
Plug-in
notes
1) Brush shape You can apply the brush stroke either as a square or a rectangle. The modified paths are those beneath or 'touched' by the brush. Brush options are also available. The plugin can also be set to modify only those 'not' touched by the brush, creating a hollowed out brush stroke application of the effect. The brush shape can be a thin line or thicker line or a very small or large nib, each creates a different apply of the brush stroke.
The plugins also come with a wide range of apply settings such as apply as a graduated up and down or apply alternate up and down or concentrate the brush strength around the edge of the brush or in the center or as a diamond and others. Use the brush shape settings to create truly stunning brush strokes and subtle color and effect changes.
2) Pressure If you have a artpad / pressure pad and pen, you can apply the scaling / angle / fill / transparency with the added control of pressure settings. You can apply smoother and more subtle brush strokes to paths
3) Demo The demo is fairly limited. The demo plugin sets have no time limits so instead of a time limit there is a no 'generated' effect or shapes. With the toolbox plugins this means the application is only displayed in outline. This is fine for scaling and rotation as the outline can be seen but the demo is limited when it comes to the modification of transparency and color as you won't see any of the changes.
4) Randomization The plugin tools can apply modification in uniform steps to the selected paths or randomized / jittered application. Say you have a path of 10 x 10 and apply a randomized scaling, the size of the path will be jittered between say 9 x 9 and 9 x 11 etc
5) Point Shifter Most of the plugins simply move the entire path or re-color the path but the point shifter modifies the path points (and therefore cannot be used on images or symbols). The points of the path can be dragged in a particular direction (or randomized) and the plugin tool can be used to create stunning dragged and distorted shapes. In particular useful for creating stunning brushes for the brush tools. The cornerpoint plugin modifies the direction points
6) Styles The styles tool adds styles to the selected paths (if that is possible, not all types of path can except every type of graphic style). The styles can be 3D, scribbled, color styles and others. The plugin also can modify the scaling of the applied style, changing the gradient scaling etc of the original style.
7) Gradients and Patterns The plugins can modify paths containing gradients and patterns. Various settings of the gradient are modified such as angle, length, hilite angle and hilite length. The hilite angle and length are only of use with radial gradients. The pattern tool can modify the angle and scaling of the pattern.
8) 100s of paths in one go The 'effects' can be applied to 100s of paths at any go. The effect is only applied to the paths beneath the brush. Obviously the more paths selected, the slower the response will be.
9) Tool options The plugins come with many different tool options. To access, simply double click the current tool icon or press return while accessing the tool. Some features such as the apply of the brush are only accessible via the first tool (scaling)
10) Modifiers The plugin settings can be updated via the dialogs but they can also be updated while you are using the brush stroke, simply hold the shift and ctrl down to increase or decrease certain settings
11) Space modifier Hold the space bar down to stop any processing of the brush stroke. A great way to move to another area of selected paths without modifying the underlying paths (more useful for duplications and layers)
12) Duplications / layers The plugins now come with a feature to trail or duplicate the paths as they are modified (as well as adding these to new layers). The trail can be used to create stunning animations and export to SWF movies. The trail feature can be used with all the plugins so you can generate stunning 3D like designs or flowing and changing animation designs.
