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This chapter teaches you to use Macromedia Flash MX's drawing tools to create basic shapes from lines and areas of color ”in Flash terminology, strokes and fills . Flash also lets you import graphics from other programs. If you create graphics in a program such as Macromedia FreeHand or Adobe Illustrator, you can import them into Flash for animation (see Chapter 7). Flash offers the option of using its original natural-style drawing tools or using a pen tool to create B zier curves. Flash's natural drawing tools allow you to sketch freely with various levels of drawing assistance. Flash can help you, for example, by changing a basically straight line that bobbles a bit into one that's perfectly straight. Flash also can smooth curves so that they flow beautifully instead of in jaggy fits and starts. The pen tool works similarly to the B zier tool featured in other graphics programs. You can edit all shapes, even those drawn with the natural drawing tools, with the B zier subselection tool. You also can correct a shape by tugging on its outline. (To learn about editing shapes, see Chapter 3.) |
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