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

Modifying Symbol Instances

Chapter 7

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Modifying Symbol

Instances

You can change the appearance of individual

symbol instances without changing the mas-

ter symbol itself. As with any other element,

you can resize and reposition an instance

(for example, scale and rotate it) by using the

tools in the Tools panel, Info and Transform

panels, and the Position and Size section of

the Property inspector (see Chapter 4).

You can also change a symbol instance’s color

and transparency, but the method di ers

from the methods you’ve learned for assign-

ing colors to merge-shapes, drawing-objects,

and primitive-shapes. You modify the color,

intensity, and ...