More Tips on Flash

FYS100Creative Discovery in Digital Art Forms

Spring 2007Burg

Lines, Strokes, and Fills

• You can make vector objects that are just lines or strokes. They don’t have any color fill in them.

• You can also fill vector objects with color, so they have both an outline (lines and strokes) and a fill color.

• You can also have objects that have fill but no outline.

• The outline and fill are treated separately unless you group them.

Options for drawing tools

When you choose a tool, you get the options for that tool

Reshaping curves

• Use selection tool. The curve point modifier appears (a little “smile”). Pull on the curve to stretch it out.

• Ctrl-click somewhere in the middle of a curve. You can add a new corner point.

History panel

Gradients

Masking

• Make two layers. The masked layer is below the masking layer.

• Draw what you want on the masked layer.• On the masking layer, draw a shape to create a

mask around the a masked layer.• Right click on each layer. From the context

menu, select “masked” or “masking.”• Select the masking layer, right click on it, and

from the context menu, select “show masking.”

Demos online

• Demos from Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Hands-On Training: http://www.cs.wfu.edu/~burg/Courses/Spring07/FYS100/course-materials/Flash/DemosFromFlashMX2004HandsOnTraining/

• Original demos: http://www.cs.wfu.edu/~burg/Courses/Spring07/FYS100/course-materials/Flash/OtherFlashDemos/