Painting With The Brush Tool - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

To adjust points or tangent handles on a curve:
Select the Subselection tool, and select an anchor point on a curved segment.
1.
A tangent handle appears for the point you selected.
To adjust the shape of the curve on either side of the anchor point, drag the anchor point, or
2.
drag the tangent handle. Shift-drag to constrain the curve to multiples of 45°. Alt-drag
(Windows) or Option-drag (Macintosh) to drag tangent handles individually.

Painting with the Brush tool

The Brush tool draws brushlike strokes, as if you were painting. It lets you create special
effects, including calligraphic effects. You can select a brush size and shape using the Brush
tool modifiers.
Brush size for new strokes remains constant even when you change the magnification level for the
Stage, so the same brush size appears larger when the Stage magnification is lower. For example,
suppose you set the Stage magnification to 100% and paint with the Brush tool using the smallest
brush size. Then, you change the magnification to 50% and paint again using the smallest brush
size. The new stroke that you paint appears 50% thicker than the earlier stroke. (Changing the
magnification of the Stage does not change the size of existing brush strokes.)
You can use an imported bitmap as a fill when painting with the Brush tool. See
groups and objects" on page
If you have a Wacom pressure-sensitive tablet connected to your computer, you can vary the
width and angle of the brush stroke by using the Brush tool Pressure and Tilt modifiers, and
varying pressure on the stylus.
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Painting with the Brush tool

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