ANDREWS PLUGINS by John Williams

Contour Plugin

Contour Plugin (Andrew's Vector Plugins Vol 18) The plugin creates inset / contours from a path / paths (or placed images and converted text and symbols and other items in Illustrator ®)

Installation of Plugin Please place the GX18_Contour.aip file in the c:\program files\adobe\illustrator CS\plug-ins folder [pc Illustrator ® CS] or c:\program files\adobe\illustrator 10\plug-ins [pc illustrator 10] or CS2 For the mac, please place the GX18_Contour file in HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator CS:plug-ins [mac Illustrator ®CS] or HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator 10:plug-ins [mac Illustrator 10] or CS2

Initial Use of plugin Please access via the filters menu of Illustrator ® via the <AVP Paths> menu. The plugin is split into multiple screens such as contour dialog, rotate, shift, points, style, settings. I would suggest as a basic start point, simply select or create a square and then apply the plugin to that, changing the rotation, contour settings, etc. The points settings is basically independent of the contour part (other than for one setting where you can combine the contour scaling to the points contour). The contour settings work on the path, the points settings, work on the points and segments of the path. The contour scaling offers a more basic scaling functionality, similar to that achievable with a mix of transforms, but the points contour settings modifies the path structure to create hi-impact and unusual inset effects. The plugin was originally in volume 1 set as part of the mixed plugins. The plugin has been greatly extended. Shuffle button only works where there is an element of randomization such as jitter. The presets dropdown is available on all screens. Select the first preset to reset the plugin. The plugin can be applied to normal paths, multiple paths, images, multiple images, text converted (in CS but text and text converted in 10), to paths with patterns and gradients, paths with styles, symbols and many more types of path. A vast range of different illustration effects can be applied to each type. Some types such as the placed image are not modified by style settings or points settings (likewise the symbols). Gradients and patterns also are not modified by fill and stroke. Symbols are the best approach for animation and SWF export (use the layer palette to spread across layers followed by the export command)

Applications support macOSX .2 .3 98 ME NT XP Ilustrator ®10 CS CS2

Questions Please contact me on support@graphicxtras.com Other plugins are available on the site http://www.graphicxtras.com Upgrades are generally available, either as free updates or inexpensive updates/upgrades. Please store the reference serial number or details of order

Copyright The plugins are copyright of 2005, Abneil Software Ltd (Andrew Buckle). This product was released by Abneil Software ltd (UK based company)

Trademarks Illustrator and Adobe and Photoshop are registered trademarks of Adobe. We have no connection whatsoever with Adobe. Adobe product screen shot(s) reprinted with permission from Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Plugin Use - 'Contour' Screen The basic plugin screen to manipulate the scaling of the basic path 'Contours': Number of contours to generate, though this doesn't take into account the random create options and other settings.

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Contour Plugin

'Contour scaling options': The plugin scales the paths by default proportionally but the contour scaling options give a little more flexibility, scaling accumulated, scaling using the shift settings and more.

'Contour scale(%)': The scaling percentage to apply to the newly created path, depends on the contour scaling options. The checkbox beside the scaling locks the horizontal and vertical. If set to OFF, the vertical can be manipulated independently to that of the horizontal (creating thinner contour effects)

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'Skip/Create': Instead of creating all the paths, the plugin skips a path, creates a path and so on (depending on the pattern set). If the skip is set to 2 and create is set to 2, then the plugin will create two paths, internally apply scaling etc for two 'non created paths', and then create two more paths, and so on. Different skip/create settings can create unusual pattern contour effects (plateaus etc)

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'Place Above': By default, paths are created on top of the original path and previous paths. This is useful if the contour generates paths that are smaller than the original but if the paths are bigger than the original or previous paths, the top path is all you will see (unless some shift of paths or rotation is applied), the place below (or OFF) state then is more preferable. Visually, you might like to have the paths beneath the original paths anyway.

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Contour Plugin

'Rotate' Screen Path rotation dialog 'Rotation (/10)': Rotates the path (accumulative) about the current rotation option center. By default, the center is the path center.

'Rotation options': Rotate the path about the current center or about a path center or user defined center or the current shift position. Depending on the setting, some of the fields below will be enabled or not

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'Use path': Rotates the path around the selected path's defined first, second etc path. Depends on the order of creation of the paths. Setting a path number from 1 to 2 can radically change the displayed rotation of paths.

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Contour Plugin 'User defined center (p)': Define your own rotation center for the paths (depends on the dropdown being set to user defined rotation).

'Shift' Screen Path shift dialog. This screen works on the whole path, not points. 'Shift (p)': Shifts the path (using the current shift option) horizontal and / or vertical

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'Shift options': Shifts the path adding to each path, accumulating the shift, applying jitter, applying the shift as a frame and more.

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'Points' Screen Manipulate the individual points of the path for additional inset effects 'Points contour (p)': Instead of scaling based on paths, the points are moved towards the center of the path, this distorts the shape (especially as it gets closer to the center and further from the original path). The points scaling is separate from the general contour scaling (unless the add scale setting is ON). The initial state will have the paths and points (if set to 0) overlapping the original. To see the points scaling, set the points contour to something other than 0. If the value is set to 0, the contour options field is not enabled.

'Points contour options':

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'Variance (p)':

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Contour Plugin 'Points variance options':

'Interpolate(%)':

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Contour Plugin

'Style' Screen

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Contour Plugin Manipulate the fill and stroke and weight of the path across generated paths 'Fill options':

'Fill':

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'Stroke options':

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'Stroke':

'Weight options':

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'Weight':

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Contour Plugin 'Interpolate style(%)': This interpolates the style between the original art and the current contoured art. Can be very slow (especially if the style features a blur or Photoshop live effect) but it can create some very unusual style changes. Useful also for tweaking a set of styled contours, to reduce or increasing the brightness or the width of line without modifying the weight options or weight settings. Be careful. I suggest you modify it via the text entry and do not use the arrow entry sliders. Not all styles are interpolated (at least visible modifications) and not all patterns will be modified (visibly). Use the interpolate as a blurring of values, so if you set the color to randomized and then set 100% interpolate value the colors will be randomized but setting the value closer to 0 will randomize the colors but they will all be slight variants of the original color.

'Settings' Screen Additional settings check boxes 'Path - alternate flip': Each alternate path in the contour is flipped by 90 degrees

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'Path - opacity (R)': The contour created paths are varied in opacity / transparency.

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Contour Plugin 'Path - delete (visible in preview)': The initial path is deleted. You will see it in the preview, but after clicking OK, it will be deleted. Sorry about the preview visibility, just the way the plugin works in combo with the application.

'Path - create(R)': By default, the contour is made up the number of contours requested. If ON, the path will be created or not, randomly, leaving gaps in the contour.

'Points - ignore direction': The direction points manipulate the curve of the path. The direction points are left in place as if the points contour is not applied. If both are set to ON, nothing will change. All the points settings are not enabled until you set a points value in the points dialog (they have no meaning otherwise)

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'Points - ignore anchor': Paths are made up of points, anchor points being one part of the path formation (please check out the Illustrator manual for more details about beziers, anchor, direction points, and others, and also each application calls the term slightly different) If you set this to ON, the path's anchor points are not moved during a points contour inset (the direction points / curves are). If both anchor and direction are set, there will be no change.

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'Points - rotate center': Instead of applying the contour to the points using the path center, the current rotate options center is used. If this is set to the path center, then no change, but the rotation center can also be the shift position or user defined center. Useful for creating unusual shape formations.

'Points - add scale': The plugin by default doesn't join the contour and the points scaling together. If ON, the contour scaling is applied to the points scaling (vica versa.. as well).

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'Points - apply (R)': Instead of applying the points contour to all the points, the plugin randomly modifies or applies the contour to the points. This can create some really unusual contour point inset effects, especially if there are a lot of points. Even a simple square with a number of points can be inset and create jarred hi-impact tattered ragged path effects.

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Additional Examples Here are a set of additional examples of the contour plugin in use

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GradientEffects Plugin Manual

Gradient Effects (Andrew's Vector Plugins Vol 3) Gradient Effects - Plugin to apply a variety of gradient effects to a path or paths with a gradient (the plugin will not work on paths with pattern fills or normal fills etc or symbols or brushes etc) Gradient Texture - plugin requires a gradient to be selected (say as a swatch) - the swatch must not be selected during the actual use of the plugin [the reason for this is messy.. but it has to do with the functionality of the plugin to create graphic styles, and this gets a little messy if the focus swatch is also selected)

Installation of Plugins / symbols / Swatches / graphic styles etc Please place the GX03_GradientEffects.aip in the c:\program files\adobe\illustrator CS\plug-ins folder [pc Illustrator 速 CS] or c:\program files\adobe\illustrator 10\plug-ins [pc illustrator 10] for the mac, please place the GX03_GradientEffects in HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator CS:plug-ins [mac Illustrator 速CS] or HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator 10:plug-ins [mac Illustrator 10] or the CS1 or the CS2 equivalent. Please put the correct version in the correct application plugin folder. The plugins for 8 and 9 will not work in CS2 (as with 10 and CS1) Update If this is an update, and you have the mesh plugins, these are no longer included in this set so I would suggest keeping the mesh plugins separate from this update. The mesh plugins are now available in a later volume (wuth 100s of new features) Bonus Gradient Texture plugin Please place the bonus Gradient texture plugin in the same folder as the above plugin. Swatches The swatches file (*.ai files) should be placed in the c:\program files\Adobe\Illustrator...\presets\swatches folder (or mac equivalent). Access the swatches files via the windows\swatches menu (please consult the Illustrator documentation). The swatches are RGB gradients Symbols The symbol files must be placed in the symbols presets folder and accessed via the open symbols feature of Illustrator. Use the symbols in a variety of ways in Illustrator, such as the symbol sprayer tool Styles The style files must be placed in the graphic styles folder. Access the styles via the open styles functionality. Access via the styles palette. Apply as required (please check the documentation for style use). The styles were created in RGB so they may or may not work well in CMYK. Multiple plugins / Mesh The plugins were originally spread over multiple plugins but they have now been combined into single + bonus plugin. The mesh plugins are now available in the volume 16 set. If you have the previous versions, you may wish to keep them as well. The names are different so you can run the plugins from the old version and the newer version Please note, not all the features are available to the plugin outside of Illustrator 速 CS2. If you are using 10 or CS1, you might find certain options such as the gradient texture's radial and use original are not available.

Initial Use of Gradient Effects plugin The plugins appear in the filters menu Appears under AVP <Paths>. The plugin requires a path or multiple paths to be selected. The paths must be filled with gradients. All other path types will be ignored. If you select multiple gradients, then the plugin will modify the gradients based on the current gradient for the path. If you modify multiple paths with the same gradient, many of the plugins will generate the same gradient effect, but if there is an

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GradientEffects Plugin Manual element of randomness, each gradient will be different. After using the gradient plugins, you can always use the gradients tool as normal to modify the angle / etc or change the gradient to linear or radial. Depending on the position or type of gradient, some of the gradients settings are ignored. **** please, if you have found the perfect gradient etc and you have clicked OK and then you go back to additional gradients etc, I would seriously recommend that you make backups of your work at reasonable intervals or save the swatches. Gradients can, and from a lot of trial and error on my part, be a big source of frustration and plugin glitches (as well as enjoyment) and you will lose the perfectly crafted gradient. Backup. Backup and a little more backup.

Gradients Effects Plugin Stops Dialog Main dialog for the gradient plugins. Some of the plugin dialog fields will change depending on the 'gradient plugin' in use. If the gradient plugin is 'average' (access via the middle right dropdown) then dialog will only show the average controls, if colors then the colors controls and so on. They are separate plugins and the effects are not carried over from 'average' 'colors' etc (if you want to apply a colors dialog to a gradients in the 'average' dialog, you will need to click OK and re-start the plugin dialog and change the plugin dialog settings to 'colors')

Some of the controls are displayed for most of the plugins 'Jitter': Jitters the color of the current stops. If 0, ignored

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'Midpoint / blur': Modifies the midpoints (between stops) to the defined setting for all 'active' stops. This blurs or sharpens the gradient.

The plugin's sub plugins are accessed via the dropdown on the right of the dialog. The first one is the average option (because it starts with A .. it is first) Changing between dropdown options will 'lose' the actual effect though the settings will be still there if you go back to a previous mode. The dropdown options are below. Average 'Average dropdown': A number of different averaging options are available. Each stop's color channels are added together in different ways to create an 'average' which is then applied to the color channels of the current gradient stop.

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Colors 'Colors': Modifiy the color channel settings for the current color mode (the bottom fields are ignored depending on the color mode)

Invert 'Invert': Inverts the color channels

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Lightness 'Light': Darken or lighten the gradient

Lines 'Lines': The lines plugins works on the basis of the first and last stop of the gradient to create a totally new gradient. So if you have a white stop and white stop, all the stops will be white; if you have a first stop 'red' and the last stop 'green', then the stops will be red green red green...

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Lines 'Minimum Stop': Increase the position of the first stop (if 0, it will be in the 0 position, if 50 then the first top will be created at position 50 in the gradient)

Lines 'Maximum stop': decreases the position of the end stop. If the maximum is less than the minimum, they will be just swapped around. If the same, you will just end up with two solid colors. The closer the stops, the greater the gradient line compression Lines 'Zoom': Create unusual compressed gradients.

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Randomised 'Max stops': Has no effect if the 'do not add stops' is set. Set to 50 or so when the RGB stops option is set (or another) and the plugin will try and fill the gradient with up to 50 stops (it might fail.. it can only fit in as many as it can fit in under gradient rules and if you set the ramp gap or gap between stops to a small figure, it will be more likely to get the stops added before it hits the end of the gradient). Set the ramp to 70 or so and it is unlikely to add anywhere near 50. Randomised 'Color spread': The lower the value, the less color variation in the gradient (probably none) but the higher the value, the greater the range of gradient color variation from stop to stop. Can be used in all modes of stop or no stop addition.

Randomised 'Ramp gap': Ignored if no stops are being added. If stops are being added (set to RGB stops etc) then the gap between one stop is randomized between 0 and the value set so if set to a low value, the stops will be fairly close together, if set to a high value, there will be fewer stops.

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Randomized 'Stops dropdown': Creates different kinds of stops. If you are in RGB and select the CMYK, you will still end up with RGB stops, just converted ones. Works best when you select the correct item for the correct color mode.

Replace 'Replace with': If active, use this to replace the valid stop color channel. So if the stops are (240,250,2) and (34,45,56) RGB stops, and the first replace channel is set to active (check on) and the value is 50 then both of the stop's first channels will be set to 50. Great for creating a red or green gradient.

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Replace 'Add to': Adds an additional value to all the active channels.

Remove No options available, simply removes all the stops bar the first and end stops Shift stops 'Shift stops': Moves the stops left or right.

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Zap No options (the zap plugin is a variant gradient color effect, it does have a side effect of leaving the last stop in position 100 and grayscale black)

Apply Dialog Use this dialog to modify general gradient settings. Not all the settings are relevant to all gradient types, i.e. angle is of no use to radial and hilites are ignored with linear. Likewise, the matrix settings might or might not be of use depending of the type, position of gradient. 'Angle': If not activated (check ON) then uses the current value. If multiple gradients are used, then overrides and sets all the angles to the same angle. Works only with linear gradients

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'Length': Modifies the length of the gradient, stretches or compresses the gradient (same as the gradient tool)

'+Origin': Modifies the original (horizontal vertical) of the gradient (adds to the existing origin)

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'Hilite angle/length': Modifies the hilite angle and length (needs a length set to see the angle). Requires radial gradient. Hilite length is 0 to 100 (the angle hilite will be at the length's set value at the angle supplied)

'Matrix': Requires a lot of tweaking and experimentation. Use this to create unusual shaped gradients but does require a little bit of work and trial and error to master. Added more for completeness sake. Also, can be slow. You might find the swatches seem to have inherited the matrix information and any subsequent click of a switch will have the matrix settings (just close the document and re-open to clear this - after saving, of course)

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Create Dialog Use this dialog to create gaps (or modifications) between the stops (skip or create) or random apply of stops. The interpolate also blends the original path style and the new path style to create unusual color combinations as well as allowing for a more subtle blend of colors. As with the previous dialog, this dialog is general and is applied to most of the gradient plugins such as invert or colors. In the case of lines, the skip / create creates gaps between the stops. In the case of color and invert etc, the function is skipped and the original color of the stop is left. 'Skip': Skip function or creation of stop

'Create': Create function or stop. If set to 1-1 then the plugin will either create a stop then skip a stop (in lines) / skip applying an invert then apply an invert (in invert or color plugin)

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'Random apply': Applies the function (as in color or invert) or creates (or not randomly) a stop in plugins like 'line'. If set to 100, ignored. The closer to 0, the more likely the function or stop will not be created. Use to create unusual structures to gradient.

'Interpolate': Interpolates (by default it is ignored when set to -1) between original gradient and the 'newly' created gradient. Use to create unusual color combinations of gradients or subtle variants of the original gradient. For plugins such as the lines plugin, will create a lot of additional stops as the plugin creates the original stops as well as the plugin stops and combines them into one seriously overloaded gradient.

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Settings Dialog Various settings. Some of the settings are not enabled and are only enabled or visible when a setting in another screen is set to ON, i.e. the angle [R] is ignored if the angle is also inactive. [R] beside an entry means there is an element of randomness 'Angle [R]': Angle is randomized between 0 and current value. Not particularly visible in a help file if a single path is displayed, but multiple paths (as below) show the randomization of various elements. 'Length [R]': Randomizes the length 'Horizontal [R]': Horizontal origin (addition) is randomized between setting and value

'Vertical [R]': Vertical origin addition is randomized 'Hilite angle [R]': Hilite angle is randomized

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GradientEffects Plugin Manual 'Hilite length [R]': Hilite length is randomized (again, as with all the others, the value needs to be set to on and greater than 0 otherwise, ignored 'Matrix [R]': Randomized matrix elements, very unpredictable 'Opacity [R]': Randomized opacity / transparency between 0 and 100

'Blend [R]': Randomized blend mode such as difference for one and multiply for another 'Create Swatch': Not a very visual command but very useful if you want to create 100s of different swatches and add them straight into the swatches palette. Create some paths, use randomization, set create to ON and apply and the swatches will be in the palette (not any swatches created during the preview mode, they are lost, only the final on OK swatches are saved). You will notice the naming is weird, this is just an internal naming convention using by Illustrator and if you want to give the swatch a proper name, click each one and add a name to the swatch. If you want to keep the swatches, save the swatches via the swatches palette library command to a swatches AI file. If you have inDesign, you should be able to use the swatches in InDesign. The best format might be to use the export command and save to AI format 5 or so (anything lower might be of no use - please check on the format read for your version of Indesign) Some of the functions have their own checkboxes, such as 'colors' plugin, these will appear beneath the 'create swatch' checkbox Colors 'Wrap color': wrap color channels around, don't just stop at white or black Colors 'Color [R]': Randomize colors Midpoint 'Add midpoint': Add midpoint value to current midpoint Randomized 'Limit / color': Limit colors to create variants of the existing gradient color 'Leave' 'Radial' 'Linear' 'Random' - these options modify the gradient type to a new type of gradient or leave the gradient type or a totally random type each time you change a setting Settings 1 Dialog Additional dialog option The second set of settings are more complex and require perhaps some trial and error. They were created with multiple overlapping gradients (the same initial gradients) using perhaps a difference blending mode or multiply or lighten (or more than two, 10 or so gradient paths) and then using the settings to add and accumulate from path to path the gradient angle or length. So, say you have three gradients and you want to accumulate the angle or length from path to path, so if the angle is 10 and then the first path would have an angle of 10, the second of 20, the third would have 30 and so on. As the blending mode or transparency of the path shows the colors of the underlying paths, many different color effects can be created. You

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GradientEffects Plugin Manual can vary the shapes / designs and perhaps use the overlapping change of colors to create framed effects and more. All the settings such as angle and length etc are available and only matrix has been ignored (as this is truly messy...) but you can always use the matrix settings from the previous dialogs and these are applied to each gradient The add options are used for adding the current value to the calculated value. More useful perhaps when you are repeat applying outside of the plugin dialog. The jitter setting on the front dialog can be useful for a lot of variant color effects. Use different blending modes such as lighten, or perhaps mix lighten with darken and so on or use random blending modes or use opacity random or set the opacity to 50% and more. Use in different paths such as text or combine with styles. These feature can be used for many other effects such as a row of paths and not overlapping. It is also useful to removal all elements of randomness and use solely the accumulate effects to create rainbow gradients or color ripples or color shifts Some examples below

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Gradient Texture - Bonus plugin This plugin can create amazing imagery. However, it can be a little quirky in its use. The main issue is that it requires an initial gradient to be used and the quickest way to do that is via the swatches palette. However, the plugin, because of its use of styles and styles mixing with swatches can be a little confusing, the plugin will fail to work in some of its functionality if a swatch is actually still selected. To throw a little more confusion into the mix, the swatches palette gradient is re-selected even though you un-select it if you leave the application and return to the application (say via Photoshop). Hopefully some of these quirks will be ironed out in the next version of the plugin. My apologies upfront. Still, it can be used to create some really beautiful textures and designs, but please be aware of these issues. The main purpose of the plugin is to create a style (as well as a texture or design). The style will appear (unless you disable this feature) in the style palette on completion of the plugin. The style does depend on the color mode, so if you want to create a RGB style then create the style in an RGB document with an RGB gradient, otherwise the colors will perhaps lead to some issues later (such as CMYK gradients and difference) The plugin mixes two gradients (in its default mode) based on a blending mode. The blending mode by default is multiply. The plugin in its default state uses the two end points of the gradients to create a mix of lines (first stop end stop first stop end stop etc) and intermixes them. The plugin can also be set to use the original gradient (though this is one of the places the swatch gets in the way if selected.. the plugin will not in this case).

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The above shows the first dialog / fill and it is in a linear mode. You can set the plugin to create the gradient as radial or randomized (and the randomized option can create some truly weird combos of gradient). The radial though is a slightly confusing gradient type and this might or might not work on some occasions. As mentioned, gradients can be quirky. If you are working in linear,you can use the length and angle and origin (the origin and length are relative items). You can use the hilite angle and length if in radial (set the length to a value greater than 0 to see the hilite), this can be further modified by the length. If you are using the original gradient, the lines are ignored (likewise anything connected with the lines such as the skip and create and most of the features of the tweak dialog) are ignored. You can add additional color to all the stops by using the jitter option (set to 200 to get a more extreme color shift but a low value can be used for subtle variants)

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GradientEffects Plugin Manual In the above display, the original gradient (dialog 2) and the lines (dialog 1) are being intermixed.

In the above the color jitter has been set to a larger value (though the color mode stops any actual variant color being shown)

The above dialog shows the second dialog (basically the same as the first dialog) but you can set the values independently. The above example shows the radial gradient (2) and the use of the hilite

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The above dialog shows the number of fills (by default it is 1). The repeats use the second fill (by default the second dialog settings though this can be modified by using different link settings). In this way you can create a style with multiple fills (in this case multiple fills of radial gradients with a hilite but with a random setting to show the random hilite positions and in lighten mode). Use the fill repeats setting to create extreme as well as truly stunning color effects and styles. The dialog can also be used to modify the start position and the height and width of the created holding shape. The shape can be a rectangle, oval, polygon, triangle, stars etc

The fourth dialog can be used to tweak the lines options such as adding a zoom factor to the lines to create a more spaced or crunched view of the lines; or crunching the stop positions or expanding them out by using the min and max stop; or creating different patterns of stops such as bunching them in 1:2 2:4 etc sets. The first column is for the first dialog, the second column is for the second dialog gradient. The bottom dropdown include the blending mode to be used by the fills (the blending between fill 1 and 2 or in the case of

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GradientEffects Plugin Manual multiple repeats of the fill, fill 1 2 3 4 5 .., though this can be set to a randomized setting)

Instead of just using the end and first stop, you can use randomized stops, the negative, first channel randomized, the average of the stops etc, and mixing this with the jitter settings, a considerable number of weird and wonderful gradients can be created and styles / textures. The other two dropdowns are for the combining of the stops and you can create a combo gradients using interpolation between gradient 1 and 2. This can result in some really wonderful gradients but it can also result in a lot of different gradient stops all crunched along the gradient bar. The last dialog allows variant linking of settings such as using the settings 1 and 2 combined to created the gradient 2 (more of use for multiple fills) and factors of gradient 1 to create gradient 2 etc. Can be used to create some truly weird and wonderful color combinations.

The fourth dialog using the lines settings and the skip / creating stops (if you check the stops afterwards, you will see them grouped into twos and then a gap etc). Use this to create unusual satin like effects and grids. The midpoint setting can be used to sharpen or blur the gradient. The random create can be used to control the creation or not of stops

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The fifth dialog has a number of settings, most of them for randomization. You can randomize the angle / length / hilite / opacity etc and this combined with the multiple fills and randomized blending and many other randomization features can be used to create a nearly unlimited range of unusual color illustrations. I would recommend, if you find a style you like, click OK and the style will be saved to the style palette for future use. If you don't save it, you might find yourself searching and searching to get the exact combination in future. You can turn off the permanent style (though why would you want to do this...?) You can also save the shape and the style to the symbols palette for future use. Please note, the symbols and the styles are only saved to this document. If you wish to save the styles and symbols for future use as a library, please use the save as a library feature (found on the palette). You can then use them in a future project / illustration

Applications support macOSX .2 .3 98 ME NT XP Ilustrator 速10 CS 1 CS 2

Questions Please contact me on support @ graphicxtras.com or leave a comment on the forum. Other plugins are available on the site http://www.graphicxtras.com

Copyright The plugins are copyright of 1999-2005, Abneil Software Ltd (Andrew Buckle). The swatches / styles / symbols are royaltyfree, feel free to use as required. Swatches / symbols / styles are (c) 2004-2005 Andrew Buckle / Abneil Software ltd. This product was released by Abneil Software Ltd (UK based company)

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Heart Plugin

Heart (Andrew's Vector Plugins Vol 15) The plugin creates hearts. These in turn can be used in designs / combined / used as symbols and more

Installation of Plugin / symbols Please place the GX15_Heart.aip file in the c:\program files\adobe\illustrator CS\plug-ins folder [pc Illustrator 速 CS] or c:\program files\adobe\illustrator 10\plug-ins [pc illustrator 10] or CS2 for the mac, please place the GX15_Heart file in HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator CS:plug-ins [mac Illustrator 速CS] or HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator 10:plug-ins [mac Illustrator 10] or CS2 The symbols files (*.ai files) should be placed in the c:\program files\Adobe\Illustrator...\presets\symbols folder (or mac equivalent). Access the symbols files via the windows\symbols menu (please consult the Illustrator documentation). Swatches should be placed in the swatches folder and accessed via the swatches palette.

Initial Use of plugin Please access via the filters menu of Illustrator 速 via the <AVP Create> menu. The plugin is split into 'five' screens, accessed via the buttons along the top of dialog. The basic settings of the plugin can be found in the first page/screen. I would suggest, initially, create hearts using the basic dialog, then access the other screens to modify the heart(s). Another start point, use the presets at the bottom of the screen. You can always reset the plugin by selecting the first preset 'reset'

Applications support macOSX .2 .3 98 ME NT XP Ilustrator 速10 CS1 CS2

Questions Please contact me on support@graphicxtras.com. Other plugins are available on the site http://www.graphicxtras.com Upgrades are generally available, either as free updates or inexpensive updates/upgrades. Please store the reference serial number or details of order

Copyright The plugins are copyright of 2005, Abneil Software Ltd (Andrew Buckle). The symbols are royalty-free, feel free to use as required. Symbols are (c) 2005 Andrew Buckle / Abneil Software ltd. This product was released by Abneil Software ltd (UK based company)

Plugin Use - Basic screen 'Heart' This is the basic screen. Each screen has the presets (see the entry marked as 'reset' (excluding start positions)) as well as preview. The presets fill a small selection of settings (across all screens) 'Heart height (p)': height of the heart from the 'bottom' of the heart to the heart 'dip'

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'Curve distance (p)': The two curves at the top. The distance is from the 'middle of the heart'. To get the symmetrical height you will notice the first distance is negative and the second (right side) is positive. This can be reversed if required or both be positive

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'Curve height (p)': The two curves at the top have an additional height. The combination of the original height mentioned above and the two curve heights, is the heart heart in total (though the heart can be smaller or taller depending on the direction points which can stretch the curves further up or down or across.

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'Slant (o)': The slant is the angle from the bottom to the dip. By default, the heart is upright but the heart can be slanted.

'Curve' screen Use this screen to modfy the symmetry as well as the curves of the heart 'Curve length (p)': The curve has direction points and these have a length, the length of which, along with the angle, control the curvature of the 'main two curves'. The first two are for the left, the next two are for the right side of the heart

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'Curve angle (o): Modifies the angle of the 'straight line' of direction points of the curve (left and right side). Create rounded or sharper heart curves.

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Heart Plugin 'Symmetric': The plugin attempts to create a heart that is symmetric. In most cases, the direction points, anchors, angles, etc will all match the left and right side of the heart. The plugin doesn't keep the symmetry when applied with a warp. Some of the fields are blanked out or disabled to avoid any input, as these fields are ignored while the symmetry setting is on.

'Tweak' screen Use this screen to modify the directio points to create weird and wonderful variant hearts '16 direction point' settings: These match the bottom and top anchor points and then the left and right anchors. The direction point settings are added to the existing direction point settings to modify the curvature of all the points as well as offser the ability to create distortions to the heart shape. Setting a few of the direction fields can create a totally unique heart shape. Some of the direction points work best when the setting is negative to their counterpart positive setting (you will notice this if you tryout some of the heart dropdowns - some have 50 and some have -50.

'Heart presets': a small selection of different heart setting direction point presets have been added. Some of the settings are there to create pleasing heart shapes; some are there just to set things back to defaults or lower settings; and some are there to set large values for possible use with the randomization settings. The heart presets are independent to the main presets

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'Anchor': Instead of using the current anchor settings for the heart, if the anchor is set to off, the anchor is set at the center of the heart. The anchor setting is more for experimentation and the actual anchor point varies depending on the heart formation (the reason why they have no labelling). Use to create many interesting and unique heart shapes

'Create' screen Use this screen to create multiple hearts, position, scale, and rotate the heart(s) 'Start position': A selection of positions for the heart. The default being your location for the center (default being the document center at plugin startup) but the center can be corners or the document frame or the bottom left hand corner or randomized throughout the document or along the horizontal axis (vertical axis randomized) and more. Depending on the setting, some fields are disabled.

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Heart bottom (p): The start or heart bottom position is the bottom of the heart

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Heart Plugin 'Angle (o)': The heart is rotated by the set angle.

'Scaling': The heart is scaled, grown or shrunk. The scaling is set for the horizontal and vertical independently so the heart can be thinner or wider or smaller. Scaling can also be negative.

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'Number of hearts': By default 1, can be multiple hearts. Great for filling an entire document (set the start position to all of the document). Useful if setting the random fill or other random settings for a wonderful range of experimentation with the heart shape.

'Settings' screen All the checkbox on and off settings 'Fill (R)': The fill of the heart is randomized. If there is no fill, the setting is ignored. Also the randomization requires the current color setting to match the document color setting (CMYK matching CMYK)

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'Fill swatch (R)': Fills the heart with randomized swatches from the swatch palette. Requires a fill to be already set (no fill will mean the plugin ignores the heart swatches). The fill needs to match the document color. This can require some setup, say you wish the heart to be filled with variants of blue, then you will need to setup the swatches with a number of blue swatches (or green or purple or gradients)

'Stroke (R)': Requires a stroke to be already applied, otherwise ignored. Like fill, requires the stroke to be the same color mode as the document. The stroke is filled with random colors.

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'Width(R)': Requires a stroke (with width) to be applied and works based on the current stroke width, so if 10pt width then the randomization will generate widths of 0 up to 10 randomized.

'Opacity (R)': Randomizes the opacity of the created heart

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'Style (R)': Applies a random style. This will require some setup of the styles palette. Some styles are process intensive. Perhaps you might want to create many 3D or sketchy styled shapes

'Heart (R)': Randomizes the settings on the first screen 'heart' from 0 to settings

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'Curve (R)': Randomizes the settings on the second screen 'curve' from 0 to settings

'Drop shadow': Creates a basic shadow a couple of pts away from the original. Not totally effective as the heart shadow inherits the style from the heart, and if this is a photoshop plugin or color effect, the shadow also ends up the same way, This is requires as it is tricky to determine different styles (the possibilities are endless), some alter the form of the heart and others solely the color etc

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'Create points (R)': Randomizes the creation of points for the heart. Some hearts may end up with no points (a dot) if set, but most will end up with shapes and forms in between.

'Direction (R)': Randomizes the direction points from 0 to the current settings. No effect if all the direction points are set to 0.

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'New layer': Places the heart and shadow on a new layer (all the hearts are placed on the same layer if the number of hearts is greater than 1)

'Symbolize': Places the heart into the symbol palette. Doesn't take the shadow or the warp envelope.

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'Warp': Applies a random warp to the heart, the warp shape remains on exit from the plugin so you will need to expand the warp envelope. Also has a weird setting of turning the fill color gray (occasionally..)

'Scaling (R)': Applies a random scaling to the heart

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'Angle (R)': Randomly rotates the heart

'Jitter scaling (R)': Applies a subtle scaling jitter to the heart to create smaller or slightly bigger shapes

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'Jitter center (R)': Applies a subtle jitter to the position (more useful if set to the user defined position as the jitter would be lost if random center is set)

'Jitter fill (R)': Applies a subtle jitter to the fill, requires the correct document color mode and a fill and also doesn't do much if the random fill is set as all jitter is totally lost. Say you start with a blue shape, the jitter will create subtle blue shifts in color

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'Jitter stroke (R)': Same as the fill but for the shape stroke

'Jitter width (R)': The current width is jittered, so if set to 10pts then the jitter will create say a 9pt path stroke width or weight and 11 pts etc randomly

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Buttons The plugin comes with a small selection of buttons marked 'shuffle' etc. "Shuffle" randomizes the settings, but is only useful if there is a random element set (i.e one of the (R) marked options). "Xtreme" randomizes a number of the settings between minimum and maximum (though not all). "Tweak" modifies some of the settings and tweaks the approx end result. "Jitter" jitters some of the settings, altering the settings plus or minus. "Boost" increases the settings. Not all settings are modified, most are untouched.

Additional examples of hearts The following are examples of the hearts generated by the plugin and further manipulation using styles, 3D effects, sketch effects, fills, text and more. The hearts can be exported to Flash ™ as well as other applications such as Photoshop ® or After Effects ®

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Illustrator (r) plugin documentation

PerspectiveGrid plugin (AVP6) Installation notes: Please install the PerspectiveGrid plugin into the plug-ins folder of the host application. To remove, simply remove the plugin. The files to install vary from platform and version If you have version 8 or 9 of Illustrator, please place the plugin found in the 8 and 9 folder into the plug-ins path of Illustrator 8 or 9. Do not put the plugin into CS1 10 or CS2. If you have Illustrator 10 / CS1 / CS2 and you are on a PC, place the top level plugin into the plug-in path If you have Illustrator 10/CS1 and you are on the macOSX, please place the plugin found in the Illustrator 10 / CS1 folder into the Illustrator 10 or CS1 plugins folder. Finally, if you are on CS2 and on a macOSX, then please place the top level plugin into the CS2 plugin folder. If you rename the plugin, you will not be able to access the plugin, you must keep the name as supplied (this wasn't an issue before this version) The plugin only appears in the filters menu, it has no equivalent (as yet) live effects feature.

The plugin set also comes with brushes and symbols, please place the ai files into the presets folder in the brushes and symbols folders respectively. Access as normal (via the palettes) Plugin folder: The plugin folder has varied from version to version, generally you will find it as the 'plug-ins' folder under Adobe Illustrator CS2 or Illustrator folder. Trademarks: Illustrator is registered trademark of Adobe. Photoshop is registered trademark of Adobe. We have no connection whatsoever with Adobe. Adobe product screen shot(s) reprinted with permission from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Plugin page: http://www.graphicxtras.com/products/aiplugin6.htm support at graphicxtras.com (mail address) General Use:

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Illustrator (r) plugin documentation The plugin (probably) works best with no fill set and a stroke set (such as 1pt). Set the color of the stroke line in advance. Use the plugin to create 3D grids. If you wish to use the align feature, I would suggest setting the lines as guidelines and then use the perspective tool to align the path to the grid and then place the center of the path at the center of the perspective grid and then scale / rotate / shear etc as required. The plugin set comes with a selection of presets

Dialog settings: The plugin now combines the two separate plugins into one. You can change the functionality from 1 point grid to two point grid via the dropdown at the side of the dialog. Some of the fields will be grayed out as they have no function for the two point option. The presets dropdown also combines both the one point grid presets and the two points presets.

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Illustrator (r) plugin documentation

Grid dialog: Modify the size and the start position of the grid (one or two point) as well as the vanishing point. The two point perspective gives two VP (in one point, the VP2 is grayed out). The presets and the one/two point dropdown are accessible from all the dialogs. Shuffle button is only useful combined with random features.

Lines dialog: This dialog sets the project lines / cutoff of the lines as well as the number of frames to create and the convergence of the frames. You might have to tweak the settings to get the 'perfect' grid.

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VP Dialog: The vanishing point is a small cross. You can modify the VP to have it as guidelines, display the cross, or rotate the grid around the VP etc

Settings: Use this dialog to set various things like random fill, fill using swatches, scale the line weight depending on approach to the VP, put the grid on a template layer etc. For perspective, you might like to set the paths to guidelines. The link links the size and VP. Use of plugin: The plugin can be used as is to create a basic grid, one point or two point perspective. The functionality of the plugin allows for a variety of different styles of grids such as thin grids / wide grids / rotated grids / multi colored grids / many lines grids / and more.

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Once you have created the grid, you can also combine the grids or use the grid as an overlay over different paths. The grids can be distorted by the perspective tool or free distort (though the lines might break away using this tool) or you can apply an envelope distort to warp the paths or you can even apply a zigzag to the lines or a third party plugin set. The grid lines can be copied, duplicated, overlay other paths, or you can apply opacity or apply different blending modes and much more to the lines. The lines can also be modified by applying live effects such as sketch effects or blurs.

Use as guidelines: the most important thing is to place the center of the path at the VP.. without that, the following steps won't work. Also, it is recommended that you set the grid to guidelines mode. Just duplicate the path a number of times and then use the various scaling / rotation tools to transform the paths

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MultiToolbox/Points Installation notes: Please install the two plugins into the plug-ins folder of the host application. To remove, simply remove the plugins. The files to install vary from platform and version If you have version 8 or 9 of Illustrator, please place the plugins found in the 8 and 9 folder into the plugins path of Illustrator 8 or 9. Do not put them in CS1 10 or CS2. If you have Illustrator 10 / CS1 / CS2 and you are on a PC, place the top level plugins into the plugin path If you have Illustrator 10/CS1 and you are on the macOSX, please place the plugins found in the Illustrator 10 / CS1 folder into the Illustrator 10 or CS1 plugins folder. Finally, if you are on CS2 and on a macOSX, then please place the top level plugins into the CS2 plugin folder.

Plugin folder: The plugin folder has varied from version to version, generally you will find it as the 'plug-ins' folder under Adobe Illustrator CS2 or Illustrator folder. Trademarks: Illustrator is registered trademark of Adobe. Photoshop is registered trademark of Adobe. We have no connection whatsoever with Adobe. Adobe product screen shot(s) reprinted with permission from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Plugin page: http://www.graphicxtras.com/products/aiplugin4.htm support at graphicxtras.com (mail address) Toolbox: The plugins are toolbox plugins. They do not appear in the filters or the effects menu or any menu, they will appear in the last few slots of the toolbox. Tools:

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Illustrator (r) plugin documentation The multitoolbox plugin comes with 13 sub plugins. To access these, simply expand out the plugin toolbox for that tool. The points toolbox plugin comes with a single plugin Options: To access all the options for each tool, double click the icon or press return

Example: Circular tool used with an image and random opacity applied Modifiers: All the tools have various modifications (while in use) where you can modify the number of copies etc while using the tool by holding the shift or the ctrl / shift or command / shift keys down during use General Use: The plugins both work in the same basic way, select an object or multiple objects and then drag while holding the mouse or artpen down and then the end shapes will appear on releasing the mouse / lifting the pen Pen: The plugins also can be used with a pen, to apply the effect with pressure. You will need to set the pressure options for each option to ON Tools: The multitoolbox plugin comes with a number of subtools: rows and columns, drag, circular and many others. Each tool has its own set of options and uses.

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Example: Background creation General functions of multitoolbox: Copies: Most of the dialogs have a columns or rows or copies, this is the number of items / paths to generate. Rotation: Rotates the paths Jitter: Jitters or randomly shifts the paths Slowdown: Instead of applying the effect as quickly as possible, the plugin applies a slowdown. More useful when used in combo with trail cursor. Color manipulation: some of the plugins have a dropdown offering fill color changes such as from current color to white or current color to black or use the swatches palette (requires pre-modification to the swatches palette such as filling with only the swatches you want such as all blues) or random colors Selected center: Some of the plugins use scaling or rotation and the rotation etc can be applied by the path center or all the path's centers averaged out / or the selected item's center of all. Locked or linked: The plugin works in one direction, up or down or across, or the size etc is linked horizontally / vertically Beneath: The path's are placed beneath the previous paths (doesn't work with layers) Trail cursor: Instead of removing the paths and generating paths and removing etc (the basic function of the plugin), the plugin doesn't delete paths, it just creates and creates 100s and 100s of paths in quick succession. Great when combined with opacity and fill manipulation for painted effects. Use slowdown to control the tool. Opacity: Randomized opacity / transparency. Blend style / mode: Randomized blend mode (difference or multiply etc)

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Illustrator (r) plugin documentation Envelope: Randomized warping (can be slow) Create or not: Apply or create or generate items or not (50 / 50 decision) Rotation (R): Randomized rotation Place on new layer: Place the created item on a new layer, great for animation Opacity (pressure): set the level of opacity based on pressure (works best with a pen)

Rows and columns / grid tool: create a grid of selected paths or images or symbols

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Soft Center: variant of the drag tool but based around the selection center. In this plugin you can also control the initial distance from the center as well as the type of measurement to use (such as points or inches)

Framed tool: The plugin to create a basic frame based on selected paths. The type of edge can be controlled by the edge dropdown. The stroke as well as fill can be manipulated in this plugin. The scale option is useful for additional frames created using the tool

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Rim Random tool: Plugin for creating random backgrounds or brushes etc. The plugin offers options to create the paths with swatches (though this only works for paths and not images). The scale settings control the size of generated paths between a minimum and maximum size, the scaling can be locked horizontal vertically

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Windmill tool: for circular path creation. The plugin can modify the rotation or angle of the paths aligning them to the direction or the angle can match the position / angle of the cursor to the original (use this to try out many designs very quickly).

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Scaledown tool: a variant of the drag tool but offers twists to the paths as well as reduction or increase in the sizing of the paths generated relative to original

Bouncealong tool: A variant of the scaledown tool but with a bounce option as well as path crunch feature.

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Spiraled Tool: Create a spiral from the selected paths

Checkerboard: A variant of the grid / row column tool and creates a checkerboard grid of paths

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Paint tool: Paints with the selected path. The painted paths can be made to fade away rapidly as well as scaled (reduced or increase).

Tile tool: Create a tile (for possible use as a pattern)

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Background tool: A variant of the rim random tool and creates a background based on the cursor position and start position. Also comes with a frame feature, the basic setting being no frame (50 - 50) but reduce to 20 will create a reasonable frame with the selected paths Bonus: Points toolbox

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Plugin manipulates selected path's points in a variety of ways to create 100s of amazing designs even from basic paths. This plugin was added as an additional bonus plugin and is grouped with the multi tool. The plugin offers a number of ways to manipulate the path points of a selected path or multiple selected paths. The plugin works only on the selected points of that path so if you wish to work only on the right half of a path, select those points only. The plugin tweaks and drags the anchor points and the drag points and shifts these using things like the document center or the 0,0 point of the document. The plugin offers a number of checkboxes. The locking option is similar to the multi tool and the cursor position is locked. The plugin either drags the point or direction point (50-50) if the drag checkbox is set to on. The points have an in and out direction points and these are manipulated and swapped or applied depending on the checkbox settings. These have different effects depending on the dropdown set such as drag direction points or drag direction points but place the anchor points of all the points on a path at 0,0 etc. Each have their effect to create rounded or flowery or intense path drags. You can also shift the start point as you drag (this is only of use for some operations that are marked as 'start') to manipulate the end path distortion by holding down the shift key as you drag the mouse/cursor

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Example: Points tool: original with multiple points and end result. The plugin comes with interpolation (so instead of applying the full drag, you can reduce the distance by a certain percentage, the interpolation can also be extended to the curvature). The plugin drag can also be modified by the pressure (art pad)

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PatternPrint Plugin (Andrew's Vector Plugins Vol 17) The plugin used to blend two paths and and the path's patterns content. Now, the latest version creates a single path and creates a style and uses the fill patterns and blend modes etc to create unusual and unique patterns. The plugin set comes with 100s of patterns (some basic, some less so) that can be used in the plugin. The end result Pattern can be used as a style or symbol (and the style can be further modified or used via the appearances palette) and the style / symbol exported for use in a style / symbol library file. The patterns must be defined in the swatches palette. If there are no patterns in the swatches palette, the plugin will not create the pattern blend. The plugin can be used to fully explore patterns, stretching, shifting, shearing, blending, reflecting, and more

Installation of Plugin Please place the GX17_PatternPrint.aip file in the c:\program files\adobe\illustrator CS\plug-ins folder [pc Illustrator 速 CS] or c:\program files\adobe\illustrator 10\plug-ins [pc illustrator 10] or CS2 For the mac, please place the GX17 PatternPrint file in HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator CS:plug-ins [mac Illustrator 速CS] or HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator 10:plug-ins [mac Illustrator 10] or CS2

Pattern swatches need to be placed (if required.. you can just ignore them) in the presets swatches folder. I would recommend adding them to a sub folder just as an indicator to their purpose (otherwise you will just see a long list of swatches folders). Access via the standard swatches menu / palette

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As you need a swatch, simply drag from the swatches library file to the swatch palette for the document, as above and then access via the plugin. The plugin access to the pattern swatches is not pretty, it is currently by a number (an internal number at that) so I would suggest not to have too many swatches in the document palette and at least you will know more or less the swatch you are accessing. You can, of course, fill the swatches palette with 100s of pattern swatches and just run through the swatches in a random order and pick the one you like (if you have the time). I hope to update the display at

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One issue you will find, along with the pattern numbering, is if you decide to color the patterns using the color modification in the tweak menu. Perhaps you will never use that feature and use the patterns as is but if you decide to explore the color settings, there are a few things to point out. The plugin uses two patterns, they could be the same pattern. If you color tweak pattern 1 and 2 and they are the same pattern then the pattern for both will be changed to the same color (to Illustrator, they are the same pattern, even if the plugin dialog is split to two patterns). The swatch will be changed external to the plugin, so even if you change your mind and go to another pattern swatch, any color modification to the swatch will be preserved in the swatches palette (why, don't ask, not my doing) So if you have a palette of Black and white swatches, on exit, you might find a number of them with different colors (depending on the swatch plugin settings). To get around this, perhaps copy the pattern swatch beforehand and at least you have a backup copy (you will need to drag the swatch to the document and then re-copy it back into the palette) or drag a copy of the swatch from the original (untouchable) swatch library. Any changes to the swatch will not change the swatch library version (unless you are editing the actual swatch library AI file)

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An example of the changes are above.

The pattern can get fairly complex (if you set the repeats to 3 or 4) or just keep the default settings for a fairly basic mix of pattern swatches.

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The graphic style can be further tweaked via the appearance palette and a new style saved. The above example shows a fairly basic setting of swatches but the pattern swatches can be swapped around, the opacity modified and the blend mode varied and the color changed, to create totally different patterns with only a few modifications.

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Above, various things have been changed such as random opacity, random swapping of patterns for each fill, randomization of the blending modes

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Initial Use of plugin Please access via the filters menu of Illustrator 速 via the <AVP Create> menu. The plugin screen is split into 5 screens: front pattern, behind pattern, size, tweak, and settings. The plugin creates by default a square filled with the first pattern in the swatches list. The plugin manipulates the various factors associated with the pattern and path (square or circle). If the random colorization is set or negative color option, the pattern is manipulated directly in the pattern swatch palette. Any occurrence of the pattern currently in use will be modified to the new color settings as well (manipulation only works on elements of the pattern arts such as CMYK or RGB path elements and not any gradient etc elements of the pattern art). Text can be used in patterns (converted as well as otherwise) and also images.

Above is an example of the pattern swatch based on an image

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Or use text (a single word or a paragraph etc) as a pattern

Or use converted (outline) text to use the colorization features (as well as apply multiple items using repeats along with

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PatternPrint Plugin randomization of rotate angle and reflections) Shuffle button The shuffle button only works if there is a random element to be applied such as color randomization or randomization of an angle or shear has been set to ON. Use the reset button to return to initial state. Tile The generated tile is not a pattern though, it is a style. You cannot save the pattern combo as a new pattern. You can trim the pattern, duplicate, rotate, and create a new pattern if required. The generated tile can be exported to other applications such as Photoshop 速 Patterns The plugin set comes with a very basic set of starter patterns which can be used as required. They are swatches and need to be stored in the presets swatches folder (in Illustrator presets folder).

Applications support macOSX .2 .3 98 ME NT XP Adobe 速 Ilustrator 速10 CS CS2

Copyright The plugins are copyright of 2005, Abneil Software Ltd (Andrew Buckle). This product was released by Abneil Software ltd (UK based company)

Plugin Use - 'Front' Screen This is the screen to manipulate the pattern instance of the 'front' pattern. 'Front pattern': Use this to select the pattern to apply (the patterns are held in the swatches palette). You can use the native swatches or use your own pattern swatches. Patterns can be easily defined and use and even a basic square can be used to great effect with the plugin by a few tweaks to reflection and scale. If the pattern swatch number is set to a number greater than the existing swatches then the number is ignored and a valid swatch is used. If the swatch setting is on then the pattern swatch is ignored and the selected swatch is used. The patterns for the front and behind can be the same or different.

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The patterns used throughout these notes to display the features of the plugin, are not the most exciting of patterns, but they show the use of color as well as the text 'pattern 1' and 'pattern 2' 'Rotate(o)': Rotate angle for 'pattern art' before fill

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Scale(%)': Scaling applied to 'pattern art' before fill. Scaling can be used to create thin pattern art or large chunky pattern art

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'Shear(o)': Shear angle and axis for the shear

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'Reflect': To reflect or not (reflection is ignored if off)

'Behind' Screen This is the screen to manipulate the pattern 'behind'.. well, the pattern in the other slots in the appearance palette 'Behind pattern': The same as front pattern but used to fill the path behind the top path. The pattern is purely a reference (though the original pattern art can be modified using the plugin). The pattern can be the same or different to the front pattern.

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'Rotate(o)': Rotate angle for 'pattern art' before fill

Scale(%)': Scaling applied to 'pattern art' before fill (as 1)

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PatternPrint Plugin 'Shift(o/p)': Angle and distance to shift 'pattern art' before fill (as 1) 'Shear(o)': Shear angle and axis for the shear (as 1) 'Reflect angle(o)': Axis for the reflection (as 1) 'Reflect': To reflect or not (as 1)

'Size' Screen This is the screen to manipulate the dimensions as well as the number of entries or repeats in the appearance palette and the final shape of the pattern. 'Dimensions': Height / width / starting points of the the shape (if a square, fairly straightforward, if a triangle or star etc, the settings are based around the 0,0 of the document and might require some tweaking of the inner and outer radius to generate a star design)

'Repeats': The number of repeat fills to appear in the appearance palette. The more fills, the slower the responsiveness of the design but the more complex (as well as perhaps cluttered) the final design. If you set the blend mode to normal and the same pattern is used and the settings are the same, there will be no visible change). Using two different patterns, different angles, etc and multiple repeats will generate a number of overlapping fills and different designs. You can tweak the end results via the appearance palette. There are a number of link options to tweak the fill 3, fill 4 etc in the appearance palette

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'Type of shape': Oval or square or stars and other shapes. Each have a slightly different setup required in the dimensions settings.

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'Tweak' Screen Various dropdowns to manipulate the transformation, blending of patterns, and linking 'Blending mode': Combines the two patterns (though not completely as a pathfinder.. you might like to group the paths after use) using different blending modes such as soft light or difference, to great effect

'Linking': Links the settings of 2 (behind) to 1 (front) pattern dialog settings (not the internal or calculated settings such as randomization). The linking might not even use the second dialog. The linking settings might be more useful for multiple repeats

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'Color Modifications': This dropdown directly modifies the pattern swatch and should be used carefully (if you have the pattern elsewhere in your artwork they will also be modified) The dropdown randomizes the color of the pattern artwork. Effective if the patterns are different, if the two patterns are the same, color changes will modify both paths. If you use converted text, you might find nothing happens. Sometimes ungrouping the path helps as the compound paths can be an issue for the plugin.

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'Settings' Screen Additional settings such as randomization of elements or use of swatches or single pattern use 'Rotate 1[R]': Randomizes the rotation setting, works only if the rotation has a value, if it is set to 0 then there will be no randomization. The generated angle is 0 to current value.

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'Rotate 2[R]': Randomizes the rotation setting, works only if the rotation has a value, if it is set to 0 then there will be no randomization. The generated angle is 0 to current value. 'Scale 1[R]': Randomizes the scaling of the pattern for the front pattern, from close to zero to the current setting.

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'Scale 2[R]': Randomizes the scaling of the behind pattern from close to zero to current setting 'Shift 1[R]': Randomizes the setting from 0 to current 'Shift 2[R]': Randomizes the setting from 0 to current 'Shear 1[R]': Randomizes the setting from 0 to current 'Shear 2[R]': Randomizes the setting from 0 to current 'Reflection 1[R]': Randomizes the setting from 0 to current (though reflect needs to be set to ON) 'Reflection 2[R]': Randomizes the setting from 0 to current (though reflect needs to be set to ON) 'Opacity 1[R]': Randomizes the opacity of the path between 0 and 100%, creating a blurred pattern effect

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PatternPrint Plugin

'Opacity 2[R]': Randomizes the opacity of the pattern behind from 0 to 100% 'Pattern 1[R]': Randomizes the pattern (uses all the existing patterns stored in the current document) 'Pattern 2[R]': Randomizes the pattern 'Use swatch': Instead of using the pattern setting or randomization of pattern, if you set this to ON, please select a pattern swatch. The selected swatch will be used for both pattern paths. If no pattern swatch is selected, the plugin will not create the patterns 'No permanent style': The plugin doesn't need to create a style in the styles palette, if you set this to on then the style will be discretely removed. 'Create symbol': Create a symbol from the current selected shape and style 'Swap': Instead of using pattern 1 / pattern 2 / pattern 2... etc for all the fills, the plugin will create the pattern order in a random way, pattern 2 pattern 1 pattern 1 pattern 2 pattern 2 etc (this might extend in future to allow for multiple patterns such as a pattern 3 and also skipping and creation of patterns)

Additional Examples

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PatternPrint Plugin

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PatternPrint Plugin

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PatternPrint Plugin

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PatternPrint Plugin

The patterns can also be used as a basis for a pattern brush... (especially after they have been randomly colored)

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PatternPrint Plugin

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Plugin set

Creation (Andrew's Vector Plugins Vol 01) Plugin set contains plugins for creation of paths.

Installation of Plugins Please place the GX01_Abstract.aip, GX01_Duplication.aip, GX01_RoundDuplication.aip, GX01_Circled.aip, GX01_Duplicator.aip files in the c:\program files\adobe\illustrator CS\plug-ins folder [pc Illustrator 速 CS] or c:\program files\adobe\illustrator 10\plug-ins [pc illustrator 10] or CS1 or CS2 equivalent For the mac, please place the GX01_Abstract, GX01_Duplication, GX001_RoundDuplication, GX01_Circled, GX01_Duplicator files in HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator CS:plug-ins [mac Illustrator 速CS] or HD:Applications:Adobe Illustrator 10:plug-ins [mac Illustrator 10] or CS1 or CS2 equivalent

Initial Use of plugins Please access via the filters menu of Illustrator 速 via the <AVP Paths> menu. The plugins appear in the path's menu as they require paths to create, without a path selected, the menu items will be faded. The plugins use a path or selected paths or images or symbols or other items. The abstract plugin requires no path but perhaps some initial setup of fill or stroke or both as required and appears in the AVP Create.

Applications support macOSX .2 .3 98 ME NT XP Ilustrator 速10 CS1 CS2

Copyright The plugins are copyright of 1999-2005, Abneil Software Ltd (Andrew Buckle). This product was released by Abneil Software ltd (UK based company)

Abstract Plugin to create kris crossing lines. The result can be just a set of lines, great for a background, or perhaps a stained glass window, or a very abstract effect. Split into two dialogs 'Abstract' dialog 'Number of lines': Creates a certain number of lines. The first point is created at a random position within the document and the end point is created up to the jitter distance entered (or less) and limited to the document (if set) and the next line is created from this position and so on. The lines cross over previously created lines (or not, randomly)