Select Windows> Brush Library or select the Paint Brush tool and go to Properties Panel>Style> Brush Library icon.
The new Paint Brush tool in Animate brings the capability of using Art Brushes and Pattern brushes, as commonly known in Adobe Illustrator, within Animate. Paint Brush tool is based on strokes and is different from the existing Brush tool.
Paint brush tool lets you draw stylized brush strokes by applying the selected art brush’s pattern along the drawn path. You can apply brush strokes to existing paths, use the Paintbrush tool to draw a path and apply a brush stroke simultaneously or customize the smoothening output of your image.
Art brushes paint a vector pattern along the path and stretches to its entire length. A set of Art Brush Presets are available by default for using them directly within your Animate project. These presets are accessible in the Brush Library of the Properties panel, when the Paint Brush tool is selected in the Tools panel.
Once added to the document, these Art brushes are available with tools such as Paint Brush, Pen, Line, Rectangle, or Oval, except the Pencil tool, which lists the primitive stroke styles only.
Pattern brushes follow and repeat the pattern along the same path. A set of pattern brush presets are available by default within the Brush Library.
To view and select pattern brushes:
Select Windows> Brush Library or select the Paint Brush tool and go to Properties Panel>Style> Brush Library icon.
Double click on any pattern brush in the Brush Library to add to the document. Once added to the document, it is listed in the Stroke Style drop down in the Properties panel.
In the Properties Panel>Stroke Style settings and click on Edit Stroke Style option to display the Paint Brush screen.
In Paint brush options, select the Brush type as Art or Pattern.
If you select the Brush type as Art, set the following options:
If you select the brush type as Pattern, set the following options:
You can use Adobe Capture mobile app for Android and iOS to create and add new brushes to your Library. For more information, see Adobe Capture.
To create or import custom vector brushes:
Use Adobe Capture application to capture a picture.
Convert the picture to a brush and save it to the library.
Open library in Animate and click on newly added brush. This adds the brush to the Brush Library and the current document.
You can import new Art Brushes that are available in the Brush Library to your document.
You can import new Art Brushes to your Animate document using the Libraries in addition to the Art brush presets available by default.
To add a new Art Brush, open the libraries panel and just click on any of the supported brushes. (Animate currently supports only Vector Brushes from Libraries).
You can use the stroke-based Paint Brush tool to draw brush strokes by applying the selected art brush’s pattern along the drawn path. Apply brush strokes to existing paths or use the Paintbrush tool to draw a path and apply a brush stroke simultaneously.
When using Art Brushes, the Drawing Object mode is enabled by default so that each brush stroke is drawn independently and do not merge with the existing strokes causing undesirable stroke intersections. You can see better performance when you use Object drawing mode compared to Merged drawing mode because brush strokes typically contain heavy vector data and merging of shapes may cause Animate to perform slower.
To convert an already drawn shape to a Drawing Object, select the graphic on stage and click Modify > Combine Objects > Union.
Art brushes drawn in Animate behave as strokes and can be changed to fills by using the ‘Convert Lines to Fills option.
To convert, first select the brush strokes drawn on stage and click Modify > Shape > Convert Lines to Fills.
Once converted to fills, it will behave as normal fills and lose its path editing capability.
The Draw as Fill option in Paint Brush tool helps you control the shape created by the Paint brush to be a stroke or fill a region.
You can apply the new art brush styles to already drawn shapes or in your existing Animate documents.
Select a shape on stage and modify its stroke style by choosing an Art brush stroke style on the Properties Panel .
Animate provides Pressure and Tilt support for strokes drawn using the Paint brush tool. You can draw art and pattern strokes with variable width, dependent on the applied pressure or tilt on the stylus. For further refinement, use the Width tool to adjust the width points.
Tilt option in Animate is available in Surface Pro device without the need for WinTab driver.
Pressure and tilt icons in the tool bar are displayed only if you have connected a Wacom pressure-sensitive tablet to your computer.
Select Paint brush tool and select the icon from the tool bar to enable pressure sensitivity or select the
icon to enable tilt sensitivity. The default percentage values are 1% and 100% corresponding to the minimum and maximum values of Pressure/Tilt.
Use the Paint brush tool to create variable-width strokes based on pressure or tilt applied on the pen.
Select the Paint Brush tool. In the Properties Panel, select Stroke Style settings and click on Edit Stroke Style option to display the Paint Brush options.
Set the minimum and maximum Pressure or Tilt sensitivity percentage values for minimum and maximum stroke width. The acceptable values are integers in the range of 1 to 100.
Click Add to add a new brush with the selected Pressure and Tilt Sensitivity settings.
Paint brush tool lets you draw stylized brush strokes by applying the selected art brush’s pattern along the drawn path. You can apply brush strokes to existing paths, or use the Paintbrush tool to draw a path and simultaneously apply a brush stroke.
In the Tools panel, click the icon.
Select a drawing mode of the Paint Brush tool within the Options in the Tools panel:
You can edit art brush properties using the Edit Brush option. Clicking the Edit Brush icon launches the Brush editing dialog box for the selected brush. If you select an Art Brush for editing, the Art Brush Options dialog box appears. You can modify properties such as brush direction, scaling preferences, and overlap preference, and apply the changes to the existing strokes. Clicking Edit Brush after selecting a normal brush launches the edit dialog box that brush type.
You can use the following shortcut buttons in the Properties panel for easier access:
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