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Illustrator for iPad: When I change stroke size it changes all my previous stroke sizes

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May 19, 2022
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Hi,

I was drawing with the paintbrush tool and I found a brush I really like. So I make it a tad thicker for my outlines (10pt) but when I want to change the stroke size down to 5pt to do some fine detail work, it changes all my previous 10pt strokes to 5 pt.

Is there a setting I could adjust to stop this from happening?

Thanks,

Rich

Correct answer JayLive510

I ran into this issue as well. brush sizes cannot be changed. it's a bizarre issue to exist in an illustrator app.

There is an uservoice page too with people asking for it, forever.

Changing Brush Stroke weight/width changes every other brush stroke in a document – Adobe Illustrator (uservoice.com)

Hope this gets fixed.

Jay

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Leila_Ravel2387

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C'est juste scandaleux !

Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello @Leila_Ravel2387,

I'm sorry to hear you're having the same problem with Illustrator. Our product team is aware of the problem and is currently investigating it. I will update this thread as I have more info.

Feel free to reach out if you have more questions or need assistance. We'd be happy to help.

Anubhav

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harini_7666

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has there been any edit to this?

JayLive510Correct answer

Inspiring

I ran into this issue as well. brush sizes cannot be changed. it's a bizarre issue to exist in an illustrator app.

There is an uservoice page too with people asking for it, forever.

Changing Brush Stroke weight/width changes every other brush stroke in a document – Adobe Illustrator (uservoice.com)

Hope this gets fixed.

Jay

Monika Gause

Community Expert

It has just 27 votes. You need to upvote it if you want that improvement.

JayLive510

Inspiring

I will do so. I have a new project that requires illustrator on iPad, so, yeah, this needs to happen.

jane-e

Community Expert

@richardc7345762

How are you changing the Stroke width and which brush are you using?

I tested with the Selection tool and the widget at the bottom of the path and that method changed only the one.

In Illustrator for desktop, when you modify a brush and click okay you get an alert asking if you want to change just this one instance or all paths using the brush. I tried modifying the brush and did not get that alert on the iPad version. It simply changed all instances. The brush I tested did not have size in the options.

Illustrator for desktop also has a control in the Brushes panel to change options for the selected paths. I don't see that in the iPad version.

Quite honestly, though, for me — when I need to have modifications such as a new width, I make a new brush. I love the default method that modifying a brush immediately updates all paths using that brush. I do think that having choices is a good idea.

I'll test again when you answer my first question. You might want to make a feature request to the Adobe team:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/931888-illustrator-ipad-feature-requests

Jane

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richardc7345762Author

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Hi Jane,

While I'm drawing in Illustrator for the iPad, I'll start off using the 5pt oval calligraphic brush. When I want a finer brush for details, I'll use the slider to make that brush smaller to say 3pt. This will change all my previous 5pt lines on my canvas to change to 3pt even though I wanted them to remain at 5pt.

jane-e

Community Expert

Hi Richard,

That's how brushes work in Illustrator for desktop as well. Make a new brush when you want new attributes. There are two things missing in the iPad version:

a button for "options for the selected brush"
the dialog with the option to not update all paths with the new attributes

Both of these features were introduced several years ago — they weren't always there.

Feature requests can be made at the above link.

Jane

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Peru Bob

Community Expert

I've moved this from the Using the Community forum (which is the forum for issues using the forums) to the Illustrator for iPad forum so that proper help can be offered.

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