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| Click on the paint bucket in the tool box to get an idea of what modifiers are available to you here. The paint bucket is for filling large areas of the stage, or whole sections of your graphics with color with just a single click of the mouse. |
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| As with many of the other tools in Flash, the paint bucket tool has a color modifier. Click on this button to bring up a flyout palette with a range of color choices. |
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| Sometimes you can inadvertently leave gaps between lines. In the shape shown here, there's quite a large gap where the lines should have joined together. You can have Flash figure out how to fill a shape properly, even if you haven't connected all your lines correctly. As you create more and more complex shapes, this feature comes in handy. There are four gap modes: Don't Close Gaps, Close Small Gaps, Close Medium Gaps and Close Large Gaps. In the graphic shown here, Close Large Gaps had to be selected. |
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| When you lock a fill, it's like you've taken a color or a pattern and stretched it across the stage, only it's "hidden." When you create a shape and fill it with the lock fill, it "uncovers" what the fill looks like in that small area. In the graphic the top square marked "regular fill" is what the fill looks like normally. Below, that same fill has been "locked" or stretched across the entire movie and then "revealed" when the squares are filled with the lock fill modifier tool. |
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| This modifier allows you to change the way a fill looks once it's inside a shape. You can stretch it, rotate it, shift it and even flip it. In the graphic shown here, the first square holds the original fill. The second square holds the same fill, only the transform fill tool has been used to stretch it and then rotate it about 20 degrees counterclockwise. |
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