Exercise of Creating Oval Exercise of Filling Color Oval

Tools Bar. Basic Tools.
The Tools Bar contains all necesary Tools for the drawing. Let's see which of them
are the most important and how they are used:
Selection (arrow) Tool : It is the most used tool among all. Its main use is to select
objects, it allows selecting the borders of the objects, the fillings (with only one click), the
borders (with double click), zones on our choice... Moreover, its adequate use can save
time of our work.
Line Tool: It allows creating straight lines in a quick way. The lines are created as
in any program of drawing. Click and drag to show up a straight line until the desired
end point. Once created, the line can be modified just by placing the cursor near the
line: above of the extremes for dragging them, and in any other part near the straight
line to curve it.
Text Tool: It creates a text in the place where we click. Its properties will be shown
in the next theme.
Oval Tool: The Oval Tool enables drawing circles or ellipses in a fast and simple
way.
To practice the handling this Tool, we recommend to do the Exercise of Creating

Oval
To practice the handling this Tool, we recommend to do the Exercise of Filling Color
Oval
Rectangle Tool: Its handling is identical to the Oval Tool, they only differ in the
objects they create.
Pencil Tool: It allows drawing lines, after being drawn you will be able to edit its
shape as you like. The color applied by this Tool can be modified from the Color Mixer
Panel or from the subpanel Colors that is in the Tool Bar.
Brush Tool: Its functionality is equivalent to the pencil, but its stroke is much more
thicker. It is usually useed for fills. We can modify its thickness and stroke shape.
Paint Bucket Tool: It lets you apply fillings to the created objects. Many other
programs of drawing don't allow to apply fillings if a border doesnt limit the zone, it
does. The color applied by this Tool can be modified from the Colors Mixer Panel or
from the subpanel Colors that are in the Tool Bar.
Eraser Tool: It works like the Brush Tool. Nevertheless its function is to erase
everything what "it draws"
Lasso Tool: Its function is complementary to the Arrow Tool, since it can select
any object in a free way (the Arrow Tool can only select objects or rectangular or square
zones). In counterpart, the Lasso Tool can't select fillings nor objects (if we dont make the
selection by hand).
By selecting this Tool, the following images appear on the Options Panel : This
is the Magic Wand Tool, which is so popular in other programs. It lets you make selections
according to the objects color. The third option you have is the following: It allows you
to select polygon shapes.
Pen Tool: creates polygons (and moreover straight lines, rectangles...) in a simple
way. Many people find this tool to be complicated, although it's one of the most powerful
tools that Flash provides. Its use consists in clicking on the places that we want to define as
vertices of the polygons. In order to create curves, indicate the anchor points, which limit
curvature, and then drag the tangent on them.
Subselection Tool: This Tool complements the Pen Tool, as far as it lets us move
or adjust the vertices that make up the objects created by the above mentioned tool.
Ink Bottle Tool: It is used to change quickly the color of a stroke. It is applied to
objects with borders, changes the color of the boundary with one click in the Colors Mixer
Panel.
Eyedroppers Tool: Its mission is to "Capture" colors to use them afterwards. To
see how it works, we advice you to see the following animation:

Tools Bar. Options
Color Mixer Panel:
Color Swatches Panel
Tools Bar. Advanced Tools.

The Color Mixer Panel as its name indicates is used to create our own colors and to
select colors that we like.
The Color Swatches Panel allows to see the arranged colors in a quick and easy
way, solid colors (only one color) as well as linear gradients or radial gradients. Moreover,
when we create a color with the Color Mixer Panel, we can add it to our set of swatches
by Adding Swatch (that is in a menu, which is open in the right top of the Color Mixer
Panel). Once the color is added, it will be in our set of swatches, and we can quickly
access to it each time while working in our movie.
Every movie has its own set of swatches and each time we open it we can use the
swatches we had the last time we worked in the movie.
In order to select a color, just click on the tabs that are
close to the icons of the Pen Tools or Paint Bucket. (If
we want to modify the color of a border, we press on the
tab that is closer to the icon of the Pencil Tool and if we
want to modify a filling, we click on the tab that is closer
to the Paint Bucket Tool). By doing this, a Panel with
many colors will appear. Select one of them. It also
allows to introduce the code of the color according to the
standard established by HTML.
The filling type that we'll apply to the created objects
also can be determined.
We can create differentes types of Fills
Solid Fill: It consists in a filling formed by a single
color.
Linear Gradient: It is a special filling type, a color
does a gradient until it converts into another one. It can
shade from top to bottom or from one side to the other.
Radial Gradient: It is identical to the previous one, but
the gradient shade performs a circular pattern.
Bitmap: It lets you put an image existing in the movie
as filling (you can even import it in that precise moment).
To learn how to create a transparent (or semi-
transparent) color, do the Exercise Create Transparent
Color
Some Tools have special options that eases and strengthens their use. In order to
access these utilities, sometimes it is not enough to click on the corresponding Tool. The
way to access to this Submenus consists in clicking on the line or on the drawn object.
Then a submenu will appear (or it will highlight if it is already present) as:
Adjusting Objects : It is used to make objects to "fit" with others, i.e.

if it is possible, to intersect its borders, then objects seem to be "grouped".
Smoothening: It softens the straight segments in less rigid lines.
Straightening: It does the inverse work. It converts the rounded

segments in more straight ones.

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Tools Bar. Basic Tools.

To practice the handling this Tool, we recommend to do the Exercise of Creating

Eyedroppers Tool: Its mission is to "Capture" colors to use them afterwards. To

see how it works, we advice you to see the following animation:

Color Mixer Panel:

Color Swatches Panel

Tools Bar. Advanced Tools.

Adjusting Objects : It is used to make objects to "fit" with others, i.e.

Smoothening: It softens the straight segments in less rigid lines.

Straightening: It does the inverse work. It converts the rounded

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