Chapter 2. Creating Simple Graphics
This chapter teaches you to use Macromedia Flash MX 2004’s drawing tools to create basic shapes from lines and areas of color—in Flash terminology, strokes and fills.
Flash also lets you import graphics from other programs. If you create graphics in a program such as Macromedia FreeHand or Adobe Illustrator, you can import them into Flash for animation (see Chapter 14).
Flash offers the option of using its original natural-style drawing tools or using a pen tool to create Bézier curves. Flash’s natural drawing tools allow you to sketch freely with various levels of drawing assistance. Flash can help you, for example, by changing a basically straight line that bobbles a bit into one that’s perfectly straight. Flash ...
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