Drawing

The drawing tools in Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 let you create and modify shapes for the artwork in your documents. For an interactive introduction to drawing in Flash, see Creating Graphics: Draw in Flash in Flash Tutorials.

Before you draw and paint in Flash, it is important to understand how Flash creates artwork, how drawing tools work, and how drawing, painting, and modifying shapes can affect other shapes on the same layer.

This chapter contains the following sections:

About vector and bitmap graphics

About Flash drawing models

About Flash drawing and painting tools

Using the Object Drawing model

Drawing with the Pencil tool

Drawing straight lines, ovals, and rectangles

Drawing polygons and stars

Using the Pen tool

Painting with the Brush tool

Reshaping lines and shape outlines

Erasing

Modifying shapes

Snapping

Specifying drawing settings

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