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:
| 1 | 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. |
| 3 | 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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