The Vector Brushes are misbehaving when used as a line around objects.

[SonjaThompson]

I’m having trouble with Vector brushes attached to borders of images.  Here’s the problem:

Here’s the Vector Textured Image brush I created:

I am going to use it as a stroke around my objects presented below.  Stroke settings for both of these are exactly the same:

 

Here’s the brush used as a border around a 3-inch square filled shape:

 

Here’s the brush used as a border around a 3-inch square image:

Why is the brush upside down, as well as slightly squashed on the horizontal sides, of the shape?

Why is it squashed by a factor of about 60% on the image? Is there a pixel shape problem? 

How do I correct it?

[firstdefence]

On the Stroke panel check "Scale with Object"

Update: that makes it look a bit better but the image is larger on some sides and still slightly distorted.

Try nesting the image in a rectangle and stroke the rectangle.

[Dan C]

Hi @SonjaThompson,

Thanks for your report!

Unfortunately I'm having trouble replicating the initial view of the brush applied to a 3" square, as your image brush .PNG provided above is 'wave' shaped, whereas it is appears straight in your example image when applied as a stroke - could you please provide a screenshot showing the brush settings for me?

Many thanks in advance!

[SonjaThompson]

Brush settings:

[SonjaThompson]

Marking "Scale with object" fixed the brush appearance on both the image and the shape.  Thanks!!!  

But the image is still upside down on the shape:

[SonjaThompson]

The shape brush image turns rightside up when I flip it though:

[firstdefence]

Convert the shape to curves and with the node tool selected you will be given the option to reverse the curve from the context menu.

Click on image to see full size.

[firstdefence]

I got carried away... I wanted to improve the corners so I broke the curve at the four corners to create lines, nudged them away from each other and added the pac-man ghosts.

Pac Man.afdesign

[Dan C]

17 hours ago, SonjaThompson said:

Marking "Scale with object" fixed the brush appearance on both the image and the shape.  Thanks!!!  

But the image is still upside down on the shape:

I'm glad to hear the Scale with Object setting has resolved this for you - in regards to the Stroke direction as above this can be reversed by converting the layer to Curves, however I have reported this as a bug to our development team as I cannot see any clear reason why these should not match between Image & Rectangle layers.

I hope this helps