<a name="999684"> </a>Bristles create the look of a real brush stroke, complete with the striations that hairs on a real brush make. Use the controls in the Bristle area of the Stroke Designer page to design the many individual bristles in a single brush dab.
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<a name="999690"> </a>To see the effect of the Bristle sliders, click Size on the Stroke Designer page and click in the preview window to show the "soft" view of the dab. The bristled dab changes as you move bristle control sliders. For more information about Size controls, see <a href="10-Brushes9.html#999274">"Setting Size Controls"</a>.
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<a name="1017133"> </a>If you choose Rake as the stroke type, you can adjust Brush Scale and Contact Angle in the Rake area of the Stroke Designer page. For more information on the Rake controls, refer to <a href="10-Brushes15.html#1000050">"Setting Rake Controls"</a>.
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<a name="999700"> </a>Thickness
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<a name="1004201"> </a>The Thickness slider controls the diameter of separate bristles.
<a name="1004215"> </a><i>The Thickness slider controls the diameter of the individual bristles. Top=17%, bottom=87%.
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<a name="1004211"> </a>To set bristle thickness
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<li class="SmartList1" value="1"><a name="1017154"> </a>On the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator, click Bristle.</li>
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<li class="SmartList1" value="2"><a name="999723"> </a>Move the Thickness slider to the left to reduce the density of the medium left by the stroke. Move it right to increase brush density.</li>
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<a name="999724"> </a>When the slider is fully to the left, the brush will leave a faint stroke-even if Opacity is set to 100%.
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<a name="999725"> </a>Clumpiness
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<a name="999727"> </a>The Clumpiness slider applies a random variance to the thickness of each bristle. Clumpiness is proportional to Thickness. This produces an effect that looks like some of the bristles have clumped together.
<li class="SmartList1" value="1"><a name="1017161"> </a>On the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator, click Bristle. </li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="2"><a name="999739"> </a>Move the Clumpiness slider to the left to reduce the amount of clumping together of bristles. Move it right to increase clumpiness.</li>
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<a name="999740"> </a>Hair Scale
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<a name="999742"> </a>The Hair Scale slider controls the density of bristles in the brush dab and, therefore, the number of bristles in the dab.
<a name="1004243"> </a><i>The Hair Scale slider controls the density of bristles in the brush dab. Top=410%, bottom=990%.
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<a name="999751"> </a>To set bristle density
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<li class="SmartList1" value="1"><a name="1017168"> </a>On the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator, click Bristle.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="2"><a name="999754"> </a>Move the Hair Scale slider to the left to reduce the amount of bristle density, creating a fine-hair brush. Move it right to increase density.</li>
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<a name="999755"> </a>Scale/Size
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<a name="999757"> </a>The Scale/Size slider controls the degree of Size variation applied to the bristles of a brush. At 0% there is no size change applied to the bristles. Setting this slider to a value greater than 0% creates a set of scaled iterations of the dab.
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<a name="999758"> </a>At 100% Size/Scale, when the brush size changes, the bristles scale in proportion to the size. At 8% Size/Scale, when the brush size changes, the bristles remain a constant absolute size.
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<a name="1017180"> </a>The Scale/Size control is invalid if there is no size range (that is, Size Min set to 100%).
<a name="1004277"> </a><i>The Scale/Size slider controls the degree of Size variation applied to a bristle set.Top=0%, bottom=100%.
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<a name="1017194"> </a>To scale bristles according to brush size
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<li class="SmartList1" value="1"><a name="1017197"> </a>On the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator, click Bristle.</li>
<li class="SmartList1" value="2"><a name="1017209"> </a>Move the Scale/Size slider to the left to reduce the degree of size variation. Move it right to increase size variation.</li>