Painting with the brush tool
The brush tool draws brush-like strokes as if you were
painting. The brush tool lets you create special effects,
including calligraphic effects and painting with the image in an
imported bitmap. On most pen and pressure-sensitive tablets, you
can vary the width of the brush stroke by varying pressure on the
pen tip. For information on using the image in an imported bitmap
to fill a brush stroke, see Painting
with a bitmap's image.
A variable-width brush stroke drawn with
a pen and pressure-sensitive tablet.
To paint with the brush tool:
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Select the brush tool.
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| 2 |
Choose a painting mode:
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Original image, Paint
Normal, Paint Behind, Paint Fills, Paint Selection, and
Paint Inside
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Paint Normal paints over lines and fills on the same
layer. |
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Paint Behind paints in blank areas of the Stage, leaving
lines and fills unaffected. |
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Paint Fills paints fills and empty areas, leaving lines
unaffected. |
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Paint Selection paints the selected fill. |
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Paint Inside paints the fill in which you start a brush
stroke and never paints lines. This works much like a
smart coloring book, in which you can never paint outside
the lines. If you start painting in an empty area, the
stroke doesn't affect any existing filled areas. |
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Choose a brush size, brush shape, and paint color from
the brush tool modifiers. |
| 4 |
If a pen and pressure-sensitive table is attached to
your computer, you can select the Pressure Modifier to
vary the width of your brush strokes by varying the
pressure on your pen tip. |
| 5 |
Drag on the Stage. Shift-drag to constrain brush strokes
to horizontal and vertical directions. |
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