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With the selection arrow click and drag around all of your line

Summary: With the selection arrow click and drag around all of your line art again You should now see a blue square with adorners inside the red square In the example above I m going to make make this custom stroke repeating What that means is the image is applied in its entirety and in its original form to a line Huh What You ll see in a minute Right click anywhere inside the blue square and click make repeating The blue square is gone and now you have two gray lines on either end of the stroke definition box also known as the red square with the pointy arrow These gray lines are going to tell Expression Design where to begin and end your custom stroke For perfect accuracy you might want to zoom way in so you can get the gray lines perfectly matched with the line art What you do with these gray lines is drag them inward so they don t leave any gaps between the end of your line art and the red box In the picture below notice the gray line it set slightly inward past the end of my line art it s not flush with the line art cut off  If you don t do this you may notice a white gap going down the middle of your line art showing an obvious separation when you want it to be continuous   Now all that s left is to save the stroke Click File Save Give your stroke a name in the Name box The Folder box refers to the categories in your stroke drop down list in the properties panel You can set this this to any of the categories but for something like this Graphics might be the most appropriate location The Default Width is an important setting don t just blow past it By default I ve noticed that Expression Design tends to make the line art stroke very large like over 200 For mine I m changing this number to 40 The larger you make this number the larger your line art will be on the line which you are applying your custom stroke Click Save Time to test it out You can go back to your original line art workspace or create a new one I m going to use the B Spline tool to make a nice curvy line Now just apply your custom stroke from the Stroke drop down box Remember it will be located under the category you saved it to during the save process and will appear listed in alphabetical order according to what you named it Here s a look at the finished product With the selection arrow click and drag around all of your line art again You should now see a blue square with adorners inside the red square In the example above I m going to make make this custom stroke repeating What that means is the image is applied in its entirety and in its original form to a line Huh What You ll see in a minute Right click anywhere inside the blue square and click make repeating The blue square is gone and now you have two gray lines on either end of the stroke definition box also known as the red square with the pointy arrow These gray lines are going to tell Expression Design where to begin and end your custom stroke For perfect accuracy you might want to zoom way in so you can get the gray lines perfectly matched with the line art What you do with these gray lines is drag them inward so they don t leave any gaps between the end of your line art and the red box In the picture below notice the gray line it set slightly inward past the end of my line art it s not flush with the line art cut off  If you don t do this you may notice a white gap going down the middle of your line art showing an obvious separation when you want it to be continuous   Now all that s left is to save the stroke Click File Save Give your stroke a name in the Name box The Folder box refers to the categories in your stroke drop down list in the properties panel You can set this this to any of the categories but for something like this Graphics might be the most appropriate location The Default Width is an important setting don t just blow past it By default I ve noticed that Expression Design tends to make the line art stroke very large like over 200 For mine I m changing this number to 40 The larger you make this number the larger your line art will be on the line which you are applying your custom stroke Click Save Time to test it out You can go back to your original line art workspace or create a new one I m going to use the B Spline tool to make a nice curvy line Now just apply your custom stroke from the Stroke drop down box Remember it will be located under the category you saved it to during the save process and will appear listed in alphabetical order according to what you named it Here s a look at the finished product

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