In this tutorial, I’ll explain a bit of the Flash Tools.
First of all, you should learn a bit more about Flash.
Adobe Flash, initially known as Shockwave Flash, then Macromedia Flash, and popularly called simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player and to the Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program. Adobe Flash Professional is used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform (such as web applications, games and movies, and content for mobile phones and other embedded devices). The Flash Player, developed and distributed by Adobe Systems (which acquired Macromedia in a merger that was finalized in December 2005), is a client application available in most common web browsers. It features support for vector and raster graphics, a scripting language called ActionScript and bi-directional streaming of audio and video. There are also versions of the Flash Player for mobile phones and other non-PC devices.Since its introduction in 1996, Flash technology has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; several software products, systems, and devices are able to create or display Flash. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, various web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.The Flash files, traditionally called “Flash movies” or “Flash games”, have a .swf file extension and may be an object of a web page, strictly “played” in a standalone Flash Player, or incorporated into a Projector, a self-executing Flash movie with the .exe extension in Windows. Flash Video files have a .flv file extension and are utilized from within .swf files.
- Wikipedia.
Let’s start… Open your Flash and select Create New Flash Document. See this picture of the Flash Tools… I’ll explain a bit of them and later, I’ll do a tutorial for each of them…
1. Selection Tool (V) - With this you can select objects… It works like the Mouse…
2. Free Transform Tool (Q) - With this you can resize, invert and rotate the object…
3. Line Tool (N) - You can draw lines…
4. Pen Tool (P) - You can create points, that will connect to each other with lines, and create a figure when to points meet each other…
5. Oval Tool (V) - You can draw balls …
6. Pencil Tool(Y) - You can draw with this tool…
7. Ink Bottle Tool (S) - You can change the stroke color of the objects…
8. Eyedropper Tool (I) - The clicked area color will be the fill color…
9. Subselection Tool (A) - Like the Selection Tool, but can select only the stroke, …
10. Gradient Transform Tool (F) - You can change the options from a gradient object with this…
11. Lasso Tool (L) - Select an area and can delete, move, …
12. Text Tool(T) - You can write texts with this…
13. Rectangle Tool (R) - You can draw rectangles with this…
14. Brush Tool (B) - You can draw different thing with this…
15. Paint Bucket Tool (K) - You can change the fill color with this…
16. Eraser Tool (E) - Like the Brush Tool, but erase things…
So these are the tools from Flash 8. But they’re similar to Flash CS3 Tools. I’m going to do a post for each of them.
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