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LASSO TOOL

This tool is used to select a freehand selection of an object. Using this tool any kind of shape can be selected and edited. There are two types of modes in Lasso Tool. They are:

  1. Polygon Mode
  2. Magic Wand Mode
Polygon Mode
Used for the straight selection line, to extend between mouse clicks. To complete the selection double-click the mouse.

Magic Wand Mode

Used to control the adjacent colors in selection. The control properties for this can be changed, with the help of threshold settings. Change the values of threshold and smoothing to obtain fine selection. The default value of threshold is "10" and smoothing is "Normal".

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The Threshold value ranges from 1 to 200.We can also control the edges of the selection by smoothing selection.


PEN TOOL
Pen tool is used to draw customized shapes and path. The angle, length and width of straight lines or curves can be adjusted.

With drawing tools, draw some shape. To make precise shape, select the pen tool. Select the shape and some points will appear. These points are called as anchor points. By clicking the anchor points Bezier-points will appear.



OVAL

Oval tool is called as drawing tool. With this tool shapes like circle and oval can be drawn. Select the shape and draw on the stage.

By holding the shift key, this tool helps you to draw a circle. The fill color can be a solid color or a gradient. The stroke color is a solid color.

Shapes can also be obtained without stroke and fill color. Do make them, select no color from swatches. If both the stroke and fill color are made no color, then the shape is invisible, so either one should have a color.

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RECTANGLE

This tool is used to draw rectangle and square shapes. Select the tool and draw a shape on the stage.

To make the edges to be smooth, select the round rectangle radius button. Specify the corner radius value. The range is between 0 and 999. Now, any shape drawn with this tool will have smooth edge. By adjusting the corner radius, any shape can be obtained. As like oval tool, in rectangle tool also we can omit the fill or stroke color.

Do not make both fill and stroke as no color, since the shape will become invisible.

BRUSH TOOL

Brush tool is used to paint and draw shapes and strokes. It is similar to the pencil tool but it can paint.

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The brush tool has five modes. They are:

1. Paint Normal: This will paint on all the objects on the stage and is the default mode of Brush tool.

2. Paint Fills: This will paint only within the fills and not on lines.

3. Paint Behind: This will paint behind the objects and shapes.

4. Paint Selection: This will only paint the selected region. Using selection tool, select a particular region and it can be painted.

5. Paint Inside: This will paint only the fill area without affecting the line.

From the brush size, we can select the size according to the object. There are different shapes for brush, such as oval, rectangle, square, circle, lines and some other.

Lock fill icon is used to lock the filling into the shapes. If the lock fill icon is switched on and any painted shape will be locked and repainting is not possible. If the lock fill icon is switched off, any alteration can be done to the shapes.

Select the paint brush tool, change the color of the fill color, size and shape of the brush. Verify that the lock is switched off and painting can be done.




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