Teach Yourself Visually™ Flash® CS4 Professional

The Tools panel helps you create and work with graphics and text. By default, it appears

docked on the far-right side of the program window. You may want to move it to the far left

if you are used to other drawing programs like Photoshop or Illustrator.

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Introducing Flash

Drawing Tools

The keyboard shortcut for each tool appears in parentheses after that tool’s name.

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Selection ()

Also called the Pointer or Arrow

tool, you can use this tool to select

and move items on the Stage.

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Subselection ()

This allows you to select and

adjust anchor points and handles

of lines.

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Free Transform ()

Use this tool to scale, rotate, or

skew a selected item. This tool

shares ...