Adobe Flash Professional * Apply patterns with the Spray Brush tool

Spray Brush tool options

The Spray Brush acts like a particle sprayer, letting you “brush” a pattern of shapes onto the Stage at one time. By default, the Spray Brush emits a spray of dot particles using the currently selected fill color. However, you can use the Spray Brush tool to apply a movie clip or graphic symbol as a pattern.

Select the Spray Brush tool.
In the Spray Brush tool Property inspector, select a fill color for the default spray of dots. Or, click Edit to select a custom symbol from the library.
You can use any movie clip or graphic symbol in the library as a “particle.” These symbol-based particles give you a great deal of creative control over artwork you create in Flash.
Click or drag on the Stage where you want the pattern to appear.

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Spray Brush tool options

The Spray Brush tool options appear in the Property inspector when you select the Spray Brush from the Tools panel.

Edit: Opens the Select Symbol dialog box, from which you select a movie clip or graphic symbol to use as a spray brush particle. When a symbol in the library is selected, its name appears next to the edit button.
Color selector: Select a fill color for the default particle spray. The color selector is disabled when you use a symbol in the library as a spray particle.
Scale: This property only appears when not using a symbol from the Library as the particle. Scale the symbol used as a spray particle. For example, a value of 10% makes the symbol 10% smaller. A value of 200% makes the symbol 200% larger.
Scale width: This property only appears when using a symbol as the particle. Scale the width of a symbol used as a spray particle. For example, a value of 10% makes the symbol 10% narrower. A value of 200% makes the symbol 200% wider.
Scale height: This property only appears when using a symbol as the particle. Scales the height of a symbol used as a spray particle. For example, a value of 10% makes the symbol 10% shorter. A value of 200% makes the symbol 200% taller.
Random scaling: Specifies that each symbol-based spray particle is placed on Stage at a random scale, altering the size of each particle. This option is disabled when using the default spray of dots.
Rotate symbol: This property only appears when using a symbol as the particle. Rotates the symbol-based spray particle around a center point.
Random rotation: This property only appears when using a symbol as the particle. Specifies that each symbol-based spray particle is placed on Stage at a random degree of rotation. This option is disabled when you use the default spray of dots.
Width: The width of the spray particle when not using a symbol from the Library.
Height: The height of the spray particle when not using a symbol from the Library.
Brush Angle: The amount of clock-wise rotation to apply to the spray particle when not using a symbol from the Library.