Flash Tools: Brush Tool

Video Transcript

"And let me go ahead and delete this, and go on to our next tool, which is the brush tool.Let me move this up a little. The brush tool is fairly similar to the pencil tool, with the exception, that you can control your brush shape, and there are a few other controls, so if we wanted kind of a fountain pen look. You could use this, or if you wanted kind of a thick magic marker look, we would use this brush, so there are various different brush settings. You can get a much bigger size brush, but then once you're done, and I believe this works. In fact, the difference that I should point out, is that this, the brush tool, we are painting on with a fill. With the pencil tool, we're painting on with a stroke, and let me reset this back to a more normal setting, so this stroke. Go to Properties. Let's make it a different color. Let's make it two, but make it solid. Now, you can see that with the pencil tool, these are strokes, and remember how I showed you earlier, the rectangle, and the difference between the fill and the stroke? Well, the difference, is that I can manipulate the brush that the stroke, just by moving around, with my selection tool. With the stroke, I can only move the stroke. I can't get in there, and fatten it up, or move the edges, like I can. I mean, with the brush tool, I can pretty much fill in all of this, and so, one's not better or worse, because with the pencil tool, I know I'm always going to keep that stroke, but the brush tool, I can be creative and move it around, and there's just a lot of different ways to use these. Now, I can't cut, even though I've deselected. That does not cut into the fill, that I've created with the brush tool, but if I select one of these brush strokes. You can see that I can cut fill on fill, so once you get your head around this concept. It's actually very, very useful, but you need to understand the basic difference between the pencil tool and the brush tool, and the fill and strokes."