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How to change stroke width in cs4?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
June 8, 2017
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The width tool I believe is new to cs5.

I'm using cs4, how can I change the width of a stroke?

I'm hoping not to use outline stroke because a shape is more work to maintain than a stroke.

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Correct answer Jeff Witchel, ACI

There's no easy way to do what the Width tool does without having this amazing tool. Time to upgrade.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Use an art brush. You might want to show us what exactly you want to do.

Jeff Witchel, ACI

Community Expert

Hi avpromedia,

I found one of my old videos from when the Width tool was first introduced.

http://www.jeffwitchel.net/2012/10/creating-beautiful-swirly-strokes-in-seconds/

Best,

Jeff

Srishti_Bali

Legend

Hi avpromedia,

Please check out these tutorials.

Using variable-width strokes

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustrator-cs5-variable-width-stroke-tool-perfect-for-making-tribal-designs--vect…

Hope this helps !

Regards

Srishti

Jeff Witchel, ACI

Correct answer

Community Expert

There's no easy way to do what the Width tool does without having this amazing tool. Time to upgrade.

rcraighead

Legend

Open "Stroke" panel and edit "Weight".

or

Open Appearance panel, click Stroke and change it there.

rcraighead

Legend

Sorry, I did not understand you wanted to duplicate the effect of the Width Tool in CS4. Yeah, that's one tool that is worth upgrading for. If you could find CS5 somewhere I think you'd be very happy.

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