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- Brush Tool (Toolbox)
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- KEYBOARD = b Pick Up a New brush (pressing b twice lets you
- pick up a polygonal brush
- SHIFT B Previous brush
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- REMEMBER: b for "brush"
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- DEMONSTRATION AVAILABLE -> `Brush_Tool.sdemo`
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- Creates a custom brush from any image currently on the page or recalls the
- last custom brush.
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- Custom brushes can either be created by "cutting out" rectangular or
- polygonal areas of the page. Selecting the Brush Selector icon once
- activates the rectangular brush selector. Selecting the icon twice
- or pressing b twice, activates the polygonal brush selector.
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- When the Left Mouse button is used with this tool, the selected area is
- copied and becomes a custom brush. Using the Right Mouse button cuts the
- area from the page and replaces the area with the current background color.
- During either of these actions, any colors within the custom brush that
- match the current background become transparent. Additionally, with
- AutoTransp from the Prefs menu activated, if all corners of the brush are
- the same color, that color becomes transparent even it isn't the current
- background color (see AutoTransp lesson).
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- Pressing the Shift key while creating a brush will constrain (limit) the
- brush to a square shape ( height = width ).
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