Painting with a bitmap's image
You can use the brush and paint bucket tools to paint with the
image in a bitmap. This lets you create patterns using the image
in a bitmap. You first break apart a bitmap into discrete areas of
color, and then you sample the bitmap with the dropper tool. Once
you've broken apart a bitmap, you can select ranges of color in
the bitmap with the magic wand tool. After you select the areas,
you can change their fill color or delete them.
Once you've painted an area or shape with a bitmap image, you
can use the paint bucket tool to rotate, skew, or scale the bitmap
image. See Using
the paint bucket tool.
To paint with a bitmap's image:
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Select a bitmap in the current scene. |
| 2 |
Choose Modify > Break Apart. |
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The bitmap is now a collection of discrete
areas of color. |
| 3 |
Select the dropper tool and then click the bitmap. |
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The dropper tool sets the current fill to
the bitmap and changes the active tool to the paint
bucket. |
| 4 |
Paint with the brush or paint bucket tool. |
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To select ranges of color in a broken apart bitmap with the
magic wand tool:
| 1 |
Select the bitmap in the scene. |
| 2 |
Select the lasso tool and click the Magic Wand modifier. |
| 3 |
Set the magic wand options: |
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Threshold defines how close the color value of adjacent
pixels must be to be included in the selection. The higher
the number, the more lenient the selection. If you enter
0, only pixels of the exact same color as the first pixel
you click are selected. |
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Smoothing defines how much to smooth the edges of a
bitmap. Options are Smooth, Pixels, Rough, and Normal. |
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Click anywhere on the bitmap. |
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The wand selects areas of color that match
the area you click. |
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