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:

1	Select a bitmap in the current scene.
2	Choose Modify > Break Apart.
	The bitmap is now a collection of discrete areas of color.
3	Select the dropper tool and then click the bitmap.
	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.

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:
	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.
	Smoothing defines how much to smooth the edges of a bitmap. Options are Smooth, Pixels, Rough, and Normal.
4	Click anywhere on the bitmap.
	The wand selects areas of color that match the area you click.