Fireworks MX 2004 Free Brush Tool

2. Free Brush Tool

Both the brush tool and the pencil tool can draw arbitrary lines directly on the canvas, as shown in Figure 2-07.

Figure 2-07

You can set the brush color, size, stroke class, edge softening value, texture, texture transparency, brush transparency, color mode, and so on in the Properties dialog box for the Brush tool, as shown in Figure 2-08.

Figure 2-08

There are a variety of stroke class shapes to choose from in the Stroke class drop-down list of the property box, and click Stroke Options to edit the new strokes.

Figure 2-09

There are dozens of fill texture patterns in the Drop-down list for the texture type to choose from, and you can select other from the list and import the bitmap image externally as the new texture fill.

In the Pencil's property box, you can also set the color of the line segment, whether to choose soft, transparency values, automatic erasure and so on.