How to Use the Ink Bottle Tool in Flash CS3

The ink bottle tool is a great tool that you can use to quickly change the stroke of an object or multiple objects. So to use it, go ahead and click on the ink bottle tool in your tool box and you're going to get some options down in properties. You can change the color using the swatch. Or you can go to the color picker and you could choose a basic color and then you can make it custom, whatever you want to do to get to the color that you like.

And you can also go ahead and you can set the type of line that you want to use, you could set how thick you want that line to be and then simply go over to you’re shape click on the stroke and it’s going to change the stroke. Click on another shape and it’s going to change the stroke again. So that’s a really quick way that you can use the ink bottle tool to change strokes of objects within flash.


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