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Creating
Simple Graphics
2
is chapter teaches you to use Adobe Flash
CS4 Professional’s drawing tools to create
basic shapes from lines and areas of color—
in Flash terminology, strokes and l l s . Flash
o ers natural drawing tools that imitate the
feel of working on paper with a pencil or
brush; geometric-shape tools that create pre-
de ned shapes; and a pen tool that lets you
draw with precision, using Bézier curves.
ese tools let you create three types of
shapes. Tools set to Merge Drawing mode
create raw shapes—shapes that interact with
other raw shapes on the same layer (you’ll
learn about shape interactions in Chapter 5).
Tools ...