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Adobe Flash Professional

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25 July 2010

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Flash Professional graphic effects

The decorative drawing tools makes it easy to turn graphic shapes that you create into complex, geometric patterns. Use the Spray Brush tool to apply the patterns that you design.

The Spray Brush tool in Adobe Flash Professional acts like a particle sprayer, so that you can "brush" a pattern of shapes onto the Stage at one time. By default, the Spray Brush tool emits a spray of dot particles using the currently selected fill color. However, you can use the Spray Brush tool to apply any movie clip or graphic symbol as a pattern.

Spray Brush tool

Follow these steps to use the Spray Brush tool:

  1. Select the Spray Brush tool.
  2. In the Property inspector, select a fill color for the default spray of dots. Or, click Edit to select a custom graphic symbol or movie clip symbol from the Library.

    Note: You can use any movie clip or graphic symbol in the Library as a "particle." These symbol-based particles provide a great deal of creative control over artwork you can create in Flash.
  3. Click or drag the Stage where you want the pattern to appear.
  4. The Spray Brush tool options appear in the Property inspector when you select the Spray Brush tool from the Tools panel:

    • Edit: Opens the Select Symbol dialog box, from which you select a movie clip or graphic symbol to use as a spray brush particle. When a symbol in the library is selected, its name appears next to the edit button.
    • Color selector: Select a fill color for the default particle spray. The color selector is disabled when you use a symbol in the library as a spray particle.
    • Scale width: Scale the width of a symbol used as a spray particle. For example, a value of 10% makes the symbol 10% narrower. A value of 200% makes the symbol 200% wider.
    • Scale height: Scales the height of a symbol used as a spray particle. For example, a value of 10% makes the symbol 10% shorter. A value of 200% makes the symbol 200% taller.
    • Random scaling: Specifies that each symbol-based spray particle is placed on Stage at a random scale, altering the size of each particle. This option is disabled when using the default spray of dots.
    • Rotate symbol: Rotates the symbol-based spray particle around a center point.
    • Random rotation: Specifies that each symbol-based spray particle is placed on the Stage at a random degree of rotation. This option is disabled when you use the default spray of dots.

To learn more about working with the Spray Brush tool and the Deco tool, refer to the following resources:

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