The Ink Bottle tool lets you change the stroke color, line width, and style of lines or shape outlines.

The Paint Bucket tool fills enclosed areas with color. It can both fill empty areas and change the color of already painted areas. You can paint with solid colors, gradient fills and bitmap fills.

In this tutorial I show you how to use these two tools in few steps.

Step 1: Create a new Flash movie with the ActionScript version set to 3.0. The background color, frame rate and the stage size do not matter for this tutorial.

Step 2: Lets draw a rectangle using Rectangle Tool (R) with no stroke on the stage, so select a color, let’s say blue and turn the Stroke Color off and draw a rectangle on stage.

Step 3: Now draw another rectangle using Rectangle Tool (R) on stage, with no fill and only a Stroke Color selected, say red. You should have something like this on stage:

Step 4: You can click on the Ink Bottle Tool (S), select a Stroke Color, let’s say black and click on the blue rectangle drawn; you will get a black stroke on the blue rectangle drawn.

Step 5: Similarly click on the Paint Bucket Tool (K), select a Fill Color, let’s say green, then click inside the red rectangle drawn, you will find the red rectangle with green fill.

That’s it! This is the difference between Paint Bucket Tool (K) and Ink Bottle Tool (S).