In the Properties Inspector panel, select the brush tool.
The Brush Tool (B) in Adobe Animate allows you to custom-define a brush by setting parameters of the brush such as shape and angle. You can create natural artwork in your projects by customizing the brush tool to suit your drawing needs. You can choose, edit, and create a custom brush in Animate through the Property Inspector, when the brush tool is selected in the toolbox.
By default, the Brush tool provides you several brushes in customized shapes to suit your various drawing needs. You can see several brush shapes when you choose the Brush Tool from the toolbox and within the "Brush" setting in Property Inspector.
You can choose a brush from the Brush drop-down list and start drawing the artwork on the stage.
Animate provides a wide range of Brush sizes with more granular control and includes the following enhancements:
In Animate, the smoothing factor has been changed from a slider ranging from Low to High to a slider with 0-100 range.
You can create custom brushes with custom-defined size, angle, and flatness as follows:
You can use the Zoom size with stage check box to scale the brush size proportionately to the changing zoom level of the stage. You can also draw seamlessly adjusting to any zoom level.
Disable the 'Zoom size with stage' check box in the brush Property Inspector to revert to the earlier default behavior of brushes.
You can resize the brush to the desired size by adjusting the Size option.
Use the Size slider bar to resize the brush to the desired size. You can preview and edit the value of the brush size next to the slider bar.
You can edit only those brushes that you have custom-created and cannot modify the properties of any of the default brushes.
You can delete only those brushes that you have created. You are not allowed to delete the default brushes.
You can choose to synchronize sub settings such as pressure or tilt settings, nib size, and nib shapes in Brush (B) and Eraser (E) tools. These settings are remembered even after quitting and relaunching a session in Animate.
Custom brushes you create can be synchronized to the cloud through the Animate preferences. To do that, navigate to Edit > Preferences on Windows or Animate > Preferences on a Mac. The option to synchronize custom brushes within "Sync Settings" section is shown below:
This feature is applicable only for Animate 18.0 and earlier versions.
Sketch a character using the brush tool. Brush tool is easy to access and use. Want to learn how use brush tool to create your character. Watch the tutorial at the end of this example and follow these steps.
In the Properties Inspector panel, select the brush tool.
To modify the size of the brush, drag the Size slider.
Click the object drawing icon and select a color from the Color option.
To increase or decrease the transperancy of the color, select the Color option and modify the Alpha percentage.
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