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Using the Spray tool

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Using the Spray tool

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- [Instructor] Sometimes you might want to create artwork composed of many copies of a graphic element. Think of things like leaves on a tree, stars in the sky, a school of fish, and so on. Copying, pasting and then modifying each leaf or star or fish would be a slow and tedious way to work. Fortunately, Inkscape has a much better solution, the Spray tool. So let's see how it works. Here in the exercise file, I have a bare tree that I'd like to add some foliage to and I have a single leaf that I'm going to use to create that foliage. So I'll select the leaf and then take the Spray tool. And in the tool controls, I have three different modes for the Spray tool. The first one gives me independent copies of the graphic that I'm spraying. So just like I'm copying and pasting but much faster. The second option creates clones. So every leaf I spray is connected to the original one. And when I modify the original, the…

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