Using the Lock Fill modifier with gradients

There's a really cool thing you can do with gradients and the Paint Bucket and…Brush tools that we've alluded to in other movies.…So we'll use that here to give the elephant some lakes and ponds to drink water from.…I've started by opening the file called lockFillGradient.fla from the exercise…files for this chapter, and I've saved it into the end file for the chapter.…So we've got an elephant layer and a background layer.…We're going to create some pools of water,…so I'm going to lock my background layer, and I'll create a new layer and call it Lakes.…

Now I'm going to grab my Oval tool, give it no stroke, and for the Fill choose…the blue gradient that's at the bottom of the color picker.…This is going to be water…so I don't want it to go from blue to black;…I want it to go from blue to white.…So I'll pop open the Color panel and double-click the black color marker…and change it to white.…We'll just leave the dropdown here at Radial gradient.…So I'll click my Color panel to close and then I'm going to draw three lakes on the screen.…