Drawing Tools – Freehand Shapes Tool

This tool consists of pencil tool and brush tool

Pencil Tool

pencil toolThis tool is used to draw free formed lines on the Stage. Select Pencil Tool from the Drawing Toolbar and click and drag the mouse on the Stage. As you drag the mouse you will see a line being drawn. The color of the line you have just drawn is a color that is selected as Pen color in the Colors Toolbar. In the Shape window you can set width, type and color of the line. A few examples of solid, dotted and dash dotted lines with different widths are given below.
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Brush Tool

brush toolThis tool is used to draw free formed wide and filled shapes on the Stage. Select Brush Tool from the Drawing Toolbar and click and drag the mouse on the Stage. Brush Tool is very powerful and you can adjust many of its parameters to accomplish various effect. You should now be familiar with most of these parameters located in the Colors toolbar and Shape window (for more info on Shape window see Chapter 4). Two additional parameters are Brush’s size and shape. Giotto offers you 10 sizes and 9 shapes of Brush. Size and shape are adjusted through two drop down lists located at Brush toolbar. Choose size from upper list and shape from the list below that one. Some of possible shapes are: circle, ellipse, square.
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