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Here is an introduction
to the drawing tools.
In your Toolbox
you'll find it the Brush Tool
in the central part.
You can also press "B".
Click on the Brush tool,
and come down to the bottom here and Select the Default Black and White.
so this is the Stroke,
and this is the Fill color.
with the Brush set at a medium Brush size,
with the Brush set at a medium Brush size,
draw a squiggle
on your stage
you can't see where it is
because it's WHITE,
and the state itself
is WHITE.
you can tell there's something on the first keyframe
because there's a black dot
on the Keyframe.
To select it
click on the Keyframe
click on the Keyframe
to select it,
and there, you can see where it is;
Swap the Stroke and the Fill
by using the arrow
next to the the Fill and the Stroke, it's down here,
and now
you can see it because the Fill is Black.
you can see it because the Fill is Black.
A Brush has the attribute of Fill, it does not have a Stroke.
A Brush has the attribute of Fill, it does not have a Stroke.
Now choose the Selection Tool and Click to the side so that it Deselects that,
Select the Brush Tool,
and choose a bright color for the Fill,
Lets choose a Bright Blue.
Draw a Curvy line,
that doesn't touch the first line.
You can see that there is "Smoothing", so when you're drawing it looks rough,
then the "Smoothing", which is over here in the Properties
will even out the edge.
Get your Selection tool
Click on the line,
it turns 'dotty';
You can move it!
Now, if you move it on top of the black line,
and then deselect,
and then select the black line,
you see that cuts it apart
if you move the black line on top of the blue line,
Deselect it,
and then move the blue line,
it also cuts up.
This is called the "cookie-cutter" effect.
Now if you use
the Object Drawing mode,
now let's get a Brush tool,
and then come down to the the bottom and find the "Object Drawing Mode",
select that,
when it's selected you can draw with it, let's make sure that we have an area
here we can draw it,
Draw across the other shapes;
And a box appears around it, that means it's an Object!
You can Select this, and Move it,
You can Select this, and Move it,
without cutting anything up
You can select the other things and move them around, and even though you have them in the same area
as the Object it doesn't affect the Object. So an Object doesn't have the same attributes as a regular
Drawn Shape.
This can be very useful
but it's not always going to something you WANT.
Let's Deselect all of the Objects and you can do that by clicking to the side,
or by using
Command Shift A
Command Shift A
the other type of selection tool that you might use is the "Subselection Tool"
and when you use the Subselection tool, and you click on an object,
it shows you the points
it shows you the points
that are accessible to change the
that are accessible to change the
that are accessible to change the shape
almost like you do in Illustrator, you can change the Curve handles,
you can change
the position
you can change it
into a different type
of curve
so these things are all accessible using
The Subselection tool.
We'll Deselect THAT!
You can also
use the Shape Tools, Here's the Rectangle Tool, let's get a nice bright color,
and Draw
a rectangle.
With the Subselection tool
you can edit some of the points
in the same way,
but also
if you have the Selection tool
and you come up to, you have to Deselect first,
and come up to it, when it's not selected,
get near an edge, and you can get a Curve or an Angle displaying
get near an edge, and you can get a Curve or an Angle displaying
get near an edge, and you can get a Curve or an Angle displaying
next to your cursor,
That means you can Edit the actual shape.
so I can draw out curves on the sides, or I can
move the corners.
you can also do the same thing to any of the shapes you've drawn, whether they be
a regular shape,
or an Object.
As long as you have that Angle, or that Curve,
As long as you have that Angle, or that Curve,
As long as you have that Angle, or that Curve,
that means you can edit the shape.
Now, let's Deselect,
and get the Pencil Tool.
The Pencil Tool can be used to draw
strokes,
Turn off the Object Drawing mode,
and then set
the Color of the Stroke.
let's set a color of red.
And let's draw a nice stroke.
The Stroke
can be edited with the Subselection tool
much like you do
any of the shapes,
but since it is only a Stroke, and doesn't have
any Fill,
it just appears differently when selected with the Subselection tool,
notice it went to, this is the color
of this layer in the Timeline,
so now if I Deselect that,
you can also select it with the selection tool
you can also select it with the selection tool,
and if it only selects a part of the line you have to double-click select the entire stroke,
and if it only selects a part of the line you have to double-click select the entire stroke,
But, if you've got it selected you can change the width of a stroke.
Okay, now, this is
the first tutorial, and
there are couple ways to do the SAVE, you can either Save by pulling down from File to Save
there are couple ways to do the SAVE, you can either Save by pulling down from File to Save,
or you can use
the keystroke command,
which is COMMAND S.
OKAY!