January, 2007
In this tutorial you'll see how easy it is to achieve an interesting border by creating a brush first.
In the first step I have chosen to create a rounded rectangle.
I apply Roughen to the rectangle with the settings below.
Drag the item onto the brushes palette to create a New Scatter Brush.
At this point we'll leave the brush options as they are and hit OK.
Create a rectangle and apply the brush to it.
With the rectangle selected, double-click on the brush and make the changes I have set below.
Fill the rectangle with a color.
Duplicate the later and invert the fill and stroke colors. Make the duplicated layer's mode Overlay.
Drag onto the Brushes palette and create a New Pattern Brush. Then drag it also onto the Swatches palette to create a new pattern swatch.
For the second position add the new pattern swatch and also follow the settings below. Set Colorization to Hue Shift.
Now you can use it as a border and create something nice. Try changing the colors as I have done below.
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