Drawing shapes with the Freehand & Brush Tool
The Freehand & Brush Tool lets you draw shapes that follow the movements of the mouse.
To draw a shape
with the Freehand & Brush Tool
1. Choose the Freehand & Brush Tool.
2. Move the mouse pointer to where you want the line to start.
3. Drag the mouse to draw a line.
4. Release the mouse button over the start of the line to complete the shape. A ‘+’ by the mouse pointer shows when you are over the start point.
Important: line drawing stops as soon as you release the mouse button.
As you are drawing the outline of the shape you can do the following:
Erase part of the freehand line
Tip
The final line can follow every
movement of the mouse or be a smooth following line. This is called smoothing
the line. See Smoothing a freehand
line.
Movie—click below (not working in this version)