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Using the Brush tool - Flash Professional Tutorial
From the course: Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training
Using the Brush tool
In Flash, the Brush tool paints fills as opposed to strokes. So of course the Brush tool would use the fill color. Before we use the Brush tool, I want to point out that I adjusted my toolbar to display as multi-column. You can do that by clicking and dragging at the left edge with the panel. So I can have a display as a single column or multi column layout. Here I am going to use a two-column layout, which works well with my screen size, using the Brush tool. Since a single column layout hides some of the options. When you have the Brush tool selected, you can control the smoothing of the shapes that you draw in the Properties panel. When you click-and-drag to draw with the Brush tool a higher smoothing value will make your shapes more smooth, of course and a lower value will make them more rough, or have more Anchor Points. Let's look in the options area of the toolbar below of the tools. When you have the Brush tool selected you will see it, there is Object Drawings, just like…
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Selecting lines and fills3m 57s
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Modifying lines and fills2m 16s
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Using the Pen tool5m 25s
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Using the Brush tool5m 52s
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Optimizing shapes for enhanced performance1m 15s
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Using the Eraser tool1m 54s
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Working with groups2m 39s
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Using the Eyedropper tool1m 20s
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Changing fill and stroke colors with the Paint Bucket and Ink Bottle tools3m 30s
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Using the Color panel2m 50s
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Using the Color Swatches panel1m 51s
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Creating gradients2m 19s
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Using the Gradient Transform tool2m 4s
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Using the Free Transform tool3m 27s
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Aligning objects with the Align panel3m 57s
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Using the 3D tools4m 11s
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Using rulers and guides2m 11s
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