Color: A CSS color value that indicates the stroke color of the drawing. Default value is #000000: Play it » gradient: A gradient object (linear or radial) used to create a gradient stroke: pattern: A pattern object used to create a pattern stroke. Like a stroke in the brain, this happens when blood flow is blocked in the retina, a thin layer of tissue in the eye that helps you see. It can cause blurry vision and even blindness. Ischemic strokes also include something called a 'mini-stroke' or a TIA (transient ischemic attack). This is a temporary blockage in blood flow to your brain. The symptoms usually last for just a. Walt Windows 10 Home, version 2004 (19041.388), Desktop: 16GB memory, Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz, GeForce GTX 970 Laptop: 8GB memory, Intel Core i7-3625QM @ 2.30GHz, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M. Jun 12, 2017 Get Ouroboros 2 How to color Ouroboros Strokes. Also works with Ray Dynamic Color: http://aescripts.com/ray-dynamic-color.
Understanding Fill and Stroke
A fill is a color enclosed by a path. A stroke is a line of color that precisely follows a path. To run the coloring book metaphor into the ground (carpet?), the stroke is the line, and the fill is the inside-the-line that you aren’t supposed to color outside of (but you did anyway because you weren’t about to let your parents stifle your creativity!). Color is a loose term here; it can mean a solid color, a pattern, or (in the case of fills) a gradient. In Figure 5-1, you can see a variety of paths with different strokes and fills applied to them.
Figure 5-1: Paths with different fills and strokes applied to them.
Although a stroke can be any thickness, it always uses a path as its center. You can stylize your strokes with solid colors or patterns but not with gradients. (Patterns and gradients are special combinations of colors; read more about them in the upcoming section, “All the colors in the rainbow and then some.”) A path surrounds the area where you put the color. This area is the fill because, um, it’s filled (with color).
Tip? | Fills and strokes can obscure the boundaries of your paths, especially when you have very thick strokes on your paths, such as the S-shaped bricks in Figure 5-1. To temporarily hide all fills and strokes, choose View→Outline. This shows your artwork as just the paths, with all strokes and fills hidden. You can still edit the artwork as you would any other time. The only difference is that you can’t see fills and strokes. To show all the colors again, choose View→Preview. |
You have many ways to create and modify fill and stroke color in Illustrator, but the quickest and easiest way to apply them is by using the Fill and Stroke boxes in the Toolbox, which looks remarkably like what you see in Figure 5-2.
You can change a fill or a stroke, but not both at the same time. You decide whether to change the fill or the stroke by selecting an object and then clicking the Fill (solid) box or the Stroke (bordered) box. The box you click comes to the front; after that, every color change you make is applied to whichever one you chose . . . until you choose the other one.
Some very useful features surround the Fill and Stroke boxes. Just to the upper right is a little curved line with arrows on both ends. Click this thingamajig (called the Swap Fill and Stroke button) to swap fill and stroke colors.
Tip? | Press Shift+X on your keyboard and you swap fill and stroke colors without having to click anywhere! |
To the lower left of the Fill and Stroke boxes are miniature white (Fill) and black bordered (Stroke) boxes. Click this Default Fill and Stroke button to set the Fill and Stroke boxes to their default colors: white for Fill and black for Stroke.
If you prefer fills and strokes in festive colors, here’s the story: Beneath the Fill and Stroke boxes live three square buttons that handle colors. Click the first square (the Color button) to change the fill or stroke color to the last color that you used. Click the second square (the Gradient button) to change the color of the stroke or fill so that it matches the last-selected gradient you used. Click the third square (the None button) to use no fill or stroke color at all.
Tip? | Double-clicking the Stroke or Fill boxes summons the Color Picker from which you can specify colors in a variety of ways. You can choose a color from a spectrum, using the true color field and the color slider, or define a color numerically. You can also select colors from the Color and Swatches palettes, as I describe later in this chapter. |
Filling and stroking paths with color
You can fill a path with one color and stroke it with another, as shown in Figure 5-3.
Figure 5-3: Filling and stroking a path with two different colors.
To fill a path with one color and stroke it with another, just follow these steps:
- With any of the selection tools, select the path that you want to color.
- In the Toolbox, click the Fill box (the solid one).Doing so tells Illustrator to apply the next color you choose to the fill (but not the stroke) of selected paths.
- Choose Window→Swatches.The Swatches palette appears. The squares in this palette function in much the same way as do the three squares beneath the Fill and Stroke boxes in the Toolbox. Click any square in the palette to apply that swatch to the selected stroke or fill. (For more information, see “The Swatches Palette” later in this chapter.)
- Click any solid-color swatch.(Well, okay, any swatch in the palette works. The ones that aren’t solid colors are special colors, such as patterns and gradients — but sticking to solid colors is less confusing early on.)
- Click the Stroke box (the thick-bordered one) in the Toolbox.Illustrator is ready for you to pick a stroke color.
- In the Swatches palette, choose a solid color, just as you did for the fill color in Step 4.
Tip? | You can also drag and drop color onto your path. Simply drag a color swatch from the Swatches palette and drop it onto your path. Depending on whether the fill or stroke is selected in the Toolbox, either the fill or stroke is colored anew. |
Making a bold stroke
When you follow the steps to color a stroke and don’t see any change, you probably have too narrow of a stroke. Stroke widths can range anywhere from 0 points (pts) to 1,000 points (18 inches, or about 46 centimeters). If the stroke is too narrow to be visible on-screen, you can change the stroke width by using the Stroke palette, as shown in Figure 5-4.
To give the path a different stroke width:
- Select the path with any selection tool.
- Choose Window→Stroke.The Stroke palette appears.
- Enter a new value or choose one from the Weight drop-down menu.
Adding multiple strokes to a single path
This power-user tip will have your friends writhing in jealous agony. Choosing the Add New Stroke option in the Appearance palette pop-up menu places a second stroke on your path. You can make this stroke a different color, width, and even apply an effect directly to it. To avoid confusion, always check to see which stroke is highlighted in the Appearance palette; that’s the one that will be changed when you fool around with settings in the Stroke or Color palette.
Filling crossed and open paths
Sometimes a path crosses itself. For instance, a path in the shape of a figure eight crosses itself once. If you fill this path, the two round areas of the eight are full, as shown in Figure 5-5.
Figure 5-5: ?A filled path in a figure eight shape.
Open paths, which have separate starting and ending points, can be filled but the results are a little different from what you may expect. When you fill an open path, an imaginary path connects the first and last points of the original path. This imaginary path marks the limits of the fill area. If you apply a stroke to the figure, the stroke doesn’t apply to the imaginary path. Figure 5-6 shows open paths with fills in them. I use a dotted line to show where Illustrator creates the imaginary path between two end points.
Figure 5-6: Open paths with fills and dotted lines connecting the starting and ending points.
'The Red Strokes' | ||||
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Single by Garth Brooks | ||||
from the album In Pieces | ||||
B-side | 'Burning Bridges' | |||
Released | November 15, 1994 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:44 (album version) | |||
Label | Liberty | |||
Songwriter(s) | James Garver, Lisa Sanderson, Jenny Yates, Garth Brooks | |||
Producer(s) | Allen Reynolds | |||
Garth Brooks singles chronology | ||||
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'The Red Strokes' is a single by country music artist Garth Brooks from his album, In Pieces. While only charting on the country charts in the U.S. (#49) and Canada (#38) as an album cut, it became one of his most popular songs in the United Kingdom, peaking at #13. This song has not been featured on any of Brooks's greatest hits albums in the United States. However, the ACM award-winning music video, regarded as one of the most memorable in country music history, was included in The Entertainer DVD box set.
Music video[edit]
The music video was directed by Jon Small, and premiered on CMT on November 19, 1994, as their 'Hot Shot Video of the Week'. The video opens with an all-white room. As the song starts, Brooks is shown rising out of the floor from a red puddle like it's water in an all-white suit and barefoot sitting at a whitepiano. As the music builds up, the different colors of paint represented, such as red, blue, and green, are splashed across him, and the piano. During the guitar solo, another Brooks is standing over the first Brooks on the piano wearing a black and red outfit. At the end of the song, Brooks goes back to an all white scene, singing 'Steam on a window, salt in a kiss/Two hearts have never pounded like this', with the fade out done as red paint (the only shot digitally inserted) runs down the screen. The overhead shots and the shots of blue on the hands and green on the feet were done by David Gant, the piano and fiddle player for Brooks's tour band. The piano rising from the puddle was not done with digital enhancement. It's actually the video they shot (piano going down into the paint) playing in reverse. Vince Montefusco, mechanical & explosives special effects expert, designed and built the hydraulic rig. He was also involved with some of the directing of this dangerous stunt. Brooks did all the opening motions backwards and Vince lowered him in to the pit. There was a safety medical team standing by in case the hydraulic rig failed to lift him out of the pit.
Montefusco was also responsible for the mud-based red paint used in the video. According to Brooks on his 'Video Collection Volume II' VHS, it took two days to shoot the opening scene alone due to the paint itself. 35 gallons of red paint were used during the entire shoot, a majority of it for the opening scene alone. When the piano was lowered the first time, they filled up the pit with straight up paint. Due to the thickness of the paint, the lowering mechanism stuck and stopped out. Brooks noted he was grateful it stopped out because he started having hypothermia due to the paint being cold from having been stored outside the previous night. Brooks later commented on the danger posed by the extremely cold paint, saying, “We actually tried it the first day and what happened was the piano got about halfway down into the paint and totally stopped out because we were using all paint at that time, so it was too thick, so the lowering device wouldn't let the piano go down. Also, the worst thing about it was the paint was freezing cold, they had stored it outside the night before so it was about 40 or 50 degrees. So, when I hit the paint, the whole just was we were going under and holding our breath for 5 seconds and they were lifting the canopy back up where we could breathe. Well, as I started going down, I started hyperventilating because it was so cold, so I thought that was the last anybody was gonna see of me, and I still think it was the hand of God today that stopped that piano from going down and I was really happy it did. So, the next day when we shot it, the paint was warm, it was thinned out, it was just like diving into a pool, and it was a lot better the second day and i'm real thankful it turned out the way it did.”[1]
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After thinking over it overnight and pitching the idea to Small, Montefusco and his team returned and thinned out the paint by adding a 35 gallon mixture of mud and water to the paint, not only giving them more fluid to work with but also warming it up in the process. According to Garth 'it was like diving into a pool'. For the final line of the bridge, the initial blast of red paint from overhead is done by a fire hose and Vince Montefusco's special effects team. If slowed down enough, the scene itself is revealed to be two different shots in one. Right after the initial blast is done by the hose, when slowed frame by frame, Garth getting dumped on by two buckets (off camera) of red paint is not done in the same shot as the fire hose.
'Red Strokes' won the 1994 Music Video of the Year Award at the ACMs, which, according to Brooks on his 'Video Collection Volume II' VHS, was plaqued up and shipped to David Gant for his work on the video and the extra effort he put into it.
Release Notes[edit]
In the United Kingdom, 'The Red Strokes' was released as a two-part single. Both parts containing the song as well as other songs from previous albums. Part two was released one week after part 1 and contained an interview with Brooks.
Track listing[edit]
7' Jukebox singleLiberty S7-18554, 1993
- 'The Red Strokes' – 3:43
- 'Burning Bridges'
UK CD singleCapitol PM515, 1993
Part 1
Part 1
- 'The Red Strokes'
- 'Ain't Goin' Down (Til the Sun Comes Up)'
- 'The Dance'
- 'That Summer'
Part 2
- 'The Red Strokes'
- 'Friend in Low Places'
- 'Every Now and Then'
- Interview
UK Cassette singleLiberty TC-CL 704, 1993
Sides 1 & 2
Sides 1 & 2
- 'The Red Strokes'
- 'Ain't Goin' Down (Til the Sun Comes Up)'
Kardnote 1 0 4 – note taking with markdown. Dutch CD singleLiberty 7243 8 81127 2 7, 1993
- 'The Red Strokes' – 3:44
- 'Ain't Goin' Down (Til the Sun Comes Up)' – 4:31
- 'The Dance' – 3:41
- 'That Summer' – 4:47
Chart positions[edit]
Chart (1994–1995) | Peak position |
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Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[2] | 38 |
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[3] | 32 |
Irish Singles Chart[4] | 7 |
New Zealand Singles Chart[5] | 34 |
UK Singles Chart[6] | 13 |
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[7] | 49 |
Sources[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'The Unthinkable Happens To Garth Brooks' Piano In His 1994 Video For 'The Red Strokes''. Country Rebel. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
- ^'Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 7996.' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. February 20, 1995. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
- ^'Billboard'. 1994-02-19.
- ^http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement
- ^http://www.swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Garth+Brooks&titel=The+Red+Strokes&cat=s
- ^http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/garth%20brooks/
- ^'Garth Brooks Chart History (Hot Country Songs)'. Billboard.
External links[edit]
![Strokes Strokes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/GaryBurghoff03.jpg/220px-GaryBurghoff03.jpg)
- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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