Flash Tools: Paint Bucket Tool

Video Transcript

"And the next tool that we're going to talk about is the Paint Bucket Tool. And just a little additional tip, as you go along you'll see right here, we've got the Paint Bucket Tool, and then in parenthesis is says K. That simply means that if you hit the letter K, if you're working around here and you've got the Ink Bottle Tool and you hit K, it's just switched over to the Paint Bucket Tool. And to learn what the sheet, keyboard shortcuts are, simply put your mouse over any of the tools in the tool palate, and it'll show you what the shortcut letter is. It's, it's just in parenthesis under the, after the name of the tool. So the Paint Bucket Tool, again, if we come over here and we click on any fill, it'll change it into the paint bucket color. And that's really all the Paint Bucket Tool does, as long as you know that down here you've got two different color chips. This is your stroke, in other words, your outline or the color that your pen is going to write in. This is your fill, or the color that your brush or your paint bucket is going to kick out. So, if you remember that you can come in. You can not fill a stroke. So, in other words this green dotted line, you can't click on it and fill it with anything because it's not a fill. It's a stroke. The only way you can change that is by coming over here and using your Ink Bucket, sorry, your Ink Bottle Tool. So that's the basic difference between the Paint Bucket Tool, the Ink Bucket Tool and the difference between a stroke and a fill. Again, very important to get those right and remember this is your fill color, this is your stroke color."