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This movie I review the toolbar over here to the left by default, this is one of the primary windows or panels in Flash and you will be using it all the time. Generally you want to keep it out permanently, but if you do want to hide the toolbar, you can choose Window, Tools, to toggle it on or off. Notice here in the upper left hand corner, there is also an option for displaying a toolbar in a single column or a double column. Toolbar contains all the tools you'll use for creating and editing artwork. Each of the main tools has associated keyboard shortcut, which is displayed next to the tool label, when you rest the mouse over the tool. You want to familiarize yourself with all the names and locations of the tools here as I will be calling them out by name for the rest of the course. So we have the Selection Tool and the Sub-selection Tool. Keyboard shortcuts are V and A. Free Transform Tool. Keyboard shortcuts Q and F. The Lasso Tool, shortcut, L. The Pen Tool, Text Tool, keyboard shortcut T and P as well as equal signs, dash and C. Line Tool. Rectangle Tool. Pencil, Paintbrush Tool, Ink Bottle Tool. Paint Bucket Tool, keyboard shortcuts K and S for the inkbottle. Y for the Pencil Tool. And B for the Brush Tool. I should probably demonstrate how these work. Notice if I click on T on my keyboard, I get my Text Tool. L, let's deselect the text, L will be the Line Tool. Or the Lasso Tool. Paint Bucket, again, was K. So if I click on K, I will get the Paint Bucket. Continuing my review here, the Eye Dropper Tool, the Eraser Tool, notice that the keyboard shortcuts aren't necessarily the first name - the first letter of the Tool. In the case of Eraser, the keyboard shortcut is E, but in the case of the Eye Dropper, it's I. Then we have the Hand Tool. Keyboard shortcut H. The Zoom Tool is M or Z. Below the Tools, we have the color chips. There is a color chip for the stroke color and the fill color. Easiest way to probably learn these is to practice them. Notice that the stroke there is black. The outline color. And the fill color is red. For many of the tools, notice that there is a small black triangle in the lower right hand corner of the tool, this indicates that there are additional tools underneath that face tool, you can access these tools by clicking and holding down the mouse over the tool. Notice that the Free Transform Tool is hiding the Gradient Transform Tool, so I can choose that from the menu there. Pen Tool has quite a few tools underneath it. The Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point or Convert Anchor Point Tool. The Rectangle Tool is perhaps the most important in this regard that you have quite a few handy tools hidden underneath the Oval Tool, the Rectangle Primitive, the Oval Primitive and the Polystar Tool. Notice the Polystar Tool is completely different than the Rectangle Tool, so it's nice to know that it's hiding down there. Notice that the swatches down here - the color swatches or the stroke color and the fill color, also have those black triangles and those indicate that there is a palette down there, which you can choose the color as well as add a gradient. Now you will notice that each time I select a tool, that the property inspector will change. Notice that for the Selection Tool and some of the others, I get this generic property inspector, which allows me to change the size of my stage, my publish options and so on. For several of the tools you will get this generic property inspector, but for others, you will have additional options for changing the properties of that tool, for example the Polystar Tool has these options for changing the solid line, hair line. The Brush Tool has a smoothing option. Pencil. Paint Bucket. Eraser Tool. Notice that is the Generic Property Inspector. So I like to keep my Property Inspector open so that when I am working with my tools here, I have all of these properties that I can set. One last thing that I want to point out is also for many of the tools you have additional modes down here at the base of the Property Inspector. I will be reviewing these modes in detail as I go through each tool, but I did want to point them out here. For example, the Brush Tool has a quite a few options down here, one is the Brush Mode, Paint Normal, Paint Fills, Paint Behind, Paint Selection, Paint Inside. Just giving you a very brief preview. Notice that depending on which mode I got selected, different things happen here on the stage. I've also got brush sizes and brush shapes. So as I go through each tool in my review I will be going over the various modes and options down here at the base of the toolbar. The Property Inspector, as you probably discovered from my discussion in this movie, is one of the most important Flash Interface Components, in fact I usually advise my students to leave the Property Inspector open all of the time. So I am going to now move onto the next movie and review the Property Inspector in more detail.