Creating Simple Graphics / Lines & Strokes
Subtitles of the Movie
Let me start with a review of lines and strokes. They're similar but not exact. You'll create line drawings with the Pencil, Pen and Line tools, these three here, Pen Tool, straight lines, by just clicking; curved lines by clicking and dragging. The Line tool here creates straight lines and of course the Pencil tool can create curvy lines. Now you'll create strokes or outlines with the Rectangle and Oval tools here as well as the Poly Star and the Rectangle Primitive and the Oval Primitive. The difference here is subtle; it may be important. These are strokes. Lines and strokes are independent of fills, and you can modify them using the ink bottle, the color and the tool modifiers in the toolbar, as well as the Color Mixer panel, or using the Stroke color in the Properties Inspector right here. Notice that you have a fill and stroke when I select the Oval tool, Rectangle tool. Now in this case, I have no fill color here. But if I go ahead and select a fill color and then I create one of these strokes, or one of these shapes here, it'll have both a stroke and a fill. Contrast that with the Line tool here. With this tool, you'll notice that there's no option for adding a fill. This will always be a non-option, likewise with the Pencil tool. There's no fill color modifier there. Let's go ahead and create a new page here; I'm getting a little bit messy. Pen Tool, likewise, no stroke. But with the Rectangle Primitive tool, for example, I can either remove that fill color by choosing that icon here in the colored ship dialog. Notice that that looks very similar with both tools. I can modify the strokes here, such as the size and thickness, the style. Notice that with this one, I have segments, whereas with the Rectangle and the Oval tool here, the line segment is altogether. So subtle differences that may or may not be clear at first. Also with both types of objects, the lines and the strokes, you can modify with the Ink Bottle tool. Let's go ahead and change my Ink Bottle color to green, and now notice that I can modify these. Let's create another object here. Let's create a Poly Star here, a pentagon, and let's change my stroke color here in the Tools Panel to blue, and then let's take the Ink Bottle, and notice that with the Ink Bottle, I can go ahead and change all of the line or stroke segments. So again, I recommend when working with any of these tools, keep out your Properties Inspector. That'll give you additional modifiers here. Now the Oval and Rectangle tools underneath here, including the Primitive and the Poly Star tool, are ideal for creating geometric shapes, such as ovals and circles and rectangles and squares. You can create simple shapes with independent lines and fills quickly and effortlessly. But for now, let me move on to the next movie and demonstrate how to create object fills with Flash using the Brush tool here as well as the Paint Bucket tool, which is for now, right now, underneath the Ink Bottle Tool. I think usually the Paint Bucket fill is default. So without further ado, let's not move on to the next movie.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Flash CS4 |
| Author: | James Gonzalez |
| SKU: | 33981 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-37-8 |
| Release Date: | 2009-04-19 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 126 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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