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Alpha
Skills
Lesson 2
Selecting
multiple areas (with Shift key)
part 1
- part
2 - part
3 - part 4
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Reconstructing the
images
into an animated brush
After having separated the different colored ovals, you can put them
back together into a single brush as an animated brush: one in which
the images constitute an image sequence. When drawing with that brush,
it will cycle through its frames automatically.
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Start by selecting the yellow oval for example. STore it again in its
own stored brush.
At the bottom of the stored brush, select 'Show Filmstrip'.
It will initially show only one image (the yellow inner oval)
Next select the next outer oval, orange.

Then click 'Add frame' on the
stored yellow brush which shows its filmstrip
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You now will have two frames in the stored brush. The innermost yello
frame and the next orange frame.
Repeat this with the other stored brushes: pick the desired brush, and
click Add frame on the other stored brush, the one with the filmstrip
showing. Keep doing this for each of the other brushes if you want them
all added to the animated brush.
After a short while you'll have all oval frames in a single brush as an
image sequence, as shown in the filmstrip:
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<< click to enlarge
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The stored animated brush now also gently cycles through its frames.
This is to help remind you that it contains more than one images.
While it is a stored animated brush, you can still further adjust size,
angle, hue, saturation and value as well as the RGB channels.
From the
Brush menu you can even find the animated brush keyframer to further
apply effects to the image sequence such as transforms.
Animated brushes can contain many more frames. A long animation from an
AVI clip or image file sequence can in fact be transferred to the brush
system.
When you paint with such animated brush, it doesn't just apply a single
image along your drawing path: it will selected one after another one
of the frames in the animated brushes and cycle through them again and
again.
Here's what it might look like as you draw with it:
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