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Part Two - Sparkly Gel Pen Line

This is more or less the same technique as used with the general sparkly text, but this time the sparkles are used to decorate a gel pen line. (Created with Never Smooth set to Off).

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Step 1.  Using the Freehand & Brush Tool (F3), or the Shape Editor Tool (F4), draw a 24pt line. With this line selected, open the Line Gallery (F12) and give it a Round Join and a Round Cap. Close the Line Gallery.

Change the colour of your line to whatever colour gel pen line you want (I used Indigo here from standard colour line RGB: 128, 0, 255).

 

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Step 2. With the line selected, open Arrange Menu and select 'Convert Line to Shape'.

Copy this new shape to the clipboard.

Select the Transparency Tool (F6). Apply a Fractal Plasma transparency and change the dpi resolution to something low like 30 dpi, (this assumes that a gel pen line will not create a completely even coverage of colour and is just an easy way to simulate this). Leave the starting transparency at 0% and adjust the end transparency to around 50%. Add a small (2 pixel) feather using the Change the Size of Feather Region slider on the Infobar.

 

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