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Other brush options

Other brush options

- [Instructor] Let's finish our tour of the brush options by going ahead and selecting this star object. And then if you haven't got it already, open the Brushes panel and then double-click on the tapered stroke brush that the star is using. So just double click that, and it'll open like so. You can see that this is pretty straightforward. It's a stroke that is tapered at both ends and it's stretching between the guides. But what I want you to look at where it's being used at the moment are the corners, both the internal corners on the star, and also the external corners of the star as well. You'll notice that they're flat, and if I just cancel out that just for a second, you don't need to cancel just for the moment. In an earlier part of the course, I told you about when this happened with some shapes, you could increase the miter limit here. That doesn't work for brushes that are applied. That's just for strokes on objects and brushes are a different thing. So, how do we resolve…

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