• Adobe Illustrator

  Illustrator function: random scatter pattern

  Posted by Dan Rather on February 6, 2014 at 2:42 am

  Hello all.

  I’m making a package label, and want a background pattern. The easiest way to describe it is to imagine dandelion seeds blowing in the wind. I want to draw one seed and hope illustrator can make a random scatter with adjustable size and orientation of the object and density of its scattering.

  Can anyone tell me if this feature exists, and what it’s called so I can research further?

  TIA!

  Dan Rather replied 12 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Vincent Rosati

  February 6, 2014 at 2:51 am

  Try dragging your object into the Brushes pallette, and create a Scatter Brush.
  The scatter brush has all of controls you describe.
  Than you just draw a path and apply the your custom bush.
  You can go back into the brush editor of you need to make additional changes.

  Vince

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  Dan Rather

  February 6, 2014 at 3:29 am

  Thank you!

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