Adobe Illustrator Plug-In to Support Brush Selection Using Onomatopoeia Utterance

摘要

Illustration softwares can provide a variety of tools and parameters to make drawings. It isn't easy task for beginners to comprehend the softwares' specifications and functions. This paper proposed and developed an design supporting plug-in of Adobe Illustrator. Especially our study focused on selecting brushes of Adobe Illustrator. It is difficult for a user to select a proper brush corresponds to his/her image. Thus the plug-in can support the user to select the brush similar to his/her image. The user is able to specify an onomatopoeic word in the own voice to the plug-in while imaging the brush design the user wants to apply. This paper could demonstrate to show some output examples by using our proposed plug-in. As the result the plug-in worked without serious problems, but there exit some problems to be solved.