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Using the Brush tool

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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