Working With Graphics in Flash

Working With Graphics in Flash

1. Selecting Objects in Flash

Selection Tool for selecting objects:

• To select a filled object, click the Selection Tool in the Tools panel and click in the fill area.

• To select the stroke of an object, select the Selection Tool and click on the objects stroke.

• To select both fill and outline of an object, double click the fill area with the Selection Tool.

•To select two or more objects together, click on the first object with the Selection Tool and then hold down the Shift key and click on all other objects.

To create Marquee selection, undertake the following steps:

1. Click the Selection Tool in the Tools panel.
2. Click and drag the mouse on the Stage such that the area dragged covers all objects you want to select. A rectangular bounding box created giving you a preview of the marquee selection area.
3. Release the mouse button. All the objects that were within the rectangular bounding box gets selected.

Using the Selection Tool to Reshape Objects

1. Click Selection Tool in the Tools panel.
2. Move the pointer around the segment which you want to modify. The Selection Tool cursor will be displayed with a curve under it.
3. Click and drag the cursor to move the segment.

To use Subselection Tool, undertake the following steps:

1. Draw a shape using a drawing tool like pen Tool, or Rectangle Tool. We have created a shape using the Oval Tool as shown in.

2. Select the Subselection Tool and click on the outline of the shape. The outline will be selected and square handles appear along the outline of the shape.

3. Click on square handle, and keeping the mouse –button pressed, drag to reshape the oval shape.

4. Once can achieve the desired result, release the mouse button.

To use Lasso Tool, undertake the following steps:

1. Select Lasso Tool in the panel.

2. Drag on the Stage to define the boundaries of the selection.

3. Release the mouse to close the selection.

2. Creating Graphics in Flash

Drawing Straight Lines with the Line Tool (/)

1. Click the Line Tool in the Tools panel.
2. If desired, change the stroke color, stroke height, and stroke style in the Property Inspector .
3. On the stage, click the mouse-button. Keeping the mouse-button pressed drag the mouse. To constraint the lines to multiples of 45 degree, press the Shift key while dragging.

Drawing Rectangles and squares with the rectangle Tool.

1. Click the rectangle Tool in the Tools panels.
2. If desired; change the stroke color, stroke height, and stroke style in the Property Inspector.
3. Click and drag the mouse on the stage to draw the rectangle. If you want to drag a square, keep the shift key pressed while dragging.

Drawing Oval and Circles with the Oval Tool.

1. Click the Oval Tool in the Tools panel.
2. Change the mouse-button on the stage and keeping the mouse-button pressed, drag an oval. To draw a perfect circle, press the Shift key while dragging.

Drawing Polygons and Stars with the Polystar Tool.

1. Click the bold the mouse-button pressed on the Rectangle Tool to display a pop-up menu.
2. Select the Polystar Tool option from the pop-up menu.
3. In the Property Inspector, Click the Options Button. This will display the Tool Setting Dialog box.
4. In the the Tools Setting Dialog box, Select the Polygon Option from the Style drop down list.
5. Enter the number of points, say 5, in the Number of Slides text box.
6. Click on OK button.
7. Click and drag the mouse on the stage to draw the polygon. A polygon is drawn using the polystar tool.

Pencil Tool

To Draw lines and shapes, you use the pencil tool

1. Click the pencil tool in tools panel.
2. Click the pencil Mode modifier in thr options section of the tools panel and choose the desired pencil mode.
3. If desired, change the values for stroke color, stroke height, and stroke styles in the property Inspector.
4. Draw the required shape on the stage.

You have three options for the Pencil Mode Modifier:

1. Straighten: T his option straightens the slightly jagged lines using the line recognition feature and smoothes the sloppy shapes.
2. Smooth : This option draws smooth flowing curved lines.
3. Ink: The Ink setting will not change your shape. Ypur shape will remain close to what you draw with the pencil tool without any smoothing or straightening.

Brush Tool

To paint a shape using the Brush Tool, undertake the following steps:

1. Select the brush tool in the tools panel.
2. The Brush mode modifier in the options section of the tools panel determines the brush strokes

• Paint Normal: Paints over existing lines.
• Paint Fills: Paints all filled shapes and blank areas on the stage.
• Paint behind Paint behind existing lines and fills.
• Paint selection: Apples paint within the selected filled shape leaving lines and blank areas of the stage unaffected.
• Paint Inside: Paints the fill area, where the brush stroke was first initiated and never paints outside the lines.

3. Click any of the available colours to select the colour of the brush.
4. Choose a different brush size and shape from Option panel.
5. Click, hold and drag the mouse pointer on the work area to draw the required shape.