Flash Professional CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide

2. Creating Simple Graphics

In This Chapter

Touring the Tools

Creating Solid Colors and Gradients

Setting Fill Attributes

Setting Stroke Attributes

Making Geometric Shapes

Creating Free-form Shapes

Adding Strokes and Fills

Adobe Flash Professional CS6 offers natural drawing tools that imitate the feel of working on paper with a pencil or brush, tools that create predefined geometric shapes, and a pen tool that lets you draw using Bézier curves.

You can create three types of shapes. Tools set to Merge Drawing mode create raw shapes that interact with other raw shapes on the same layer. (You’ll learn about shape interactions in Chapter 5.) Tools set to Object Drawing mode create editable shapes that don’t interact with other shapes. Flash’s rectangle- ...