Basic Flash - Lesson 2

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Basic Flash - Lesson 2

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The Pencil tool is used in much the same way that you would use a real pencil to draw. Simply select the tool and drag on the Stage to draw with the Pencil tool.


SHIFT key : Constrain directions


You can press the Shift key while dragging to constrain lines to vertical or horizontal directions.


Colors


You can specify the color with the Stroke Color Tool.


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Smoothing and Straightening


You can apply smoothing or straightening to the lines by setting a Pencil mode


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Stroke panel : Window > Panels > Stroke

Finally, you can specify line style (solid, dotted etc.), line width in pixels and color using the Stroke panel.



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