Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Creating Free-form Shapes

Chapter 2

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To create free-form solid fi lls with the

brush tool:

1.

In the Tools panel, click the current

brush tool; and from the submenu that

opens, select the brush tool, or press B

(Figure 2.49).

About Path Math in Flash

A path—a series of points and connecting lines—is the skeleton of your graphic-object. With

most Flash tools, the math that goes into creating a path takes place behind the scenes. You

draw a complete line or a shape; Flash places points (without showing them), connects them,

and adds a stroke. With the pen tool, you place the de ning points—called anchor points—and

adjust the curve segments that conn ...