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=== Drawing with bitmaps === | === Drawing with bitmaps === | ||
[[image:flash-cs3-color-panel-bitmaps.png| | [[image:flash-cs3-color-panel-bitmaps.png|thumb|200px|right|Color panel - bitmap colors]] | ||
; Importing a bitmap | ; Importing a bitmap | ||
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; Adjusting "gain size" | ; Adjusting "gain size" | ||
With the free transform tool you can ajust how a bitmap will be applied. You can change: | With the free transform tool you can ajust how a bitmap will be applied. You can change: | ||
* Size, i.e. whether the bitmap is applied as is, or reduced or magnified in x, y direction or both | * Size, i.e. whether the bitmap is applied as is, or reduced or magnified in x, y direction or both | ||
* Rotation | * Rotation | ||
* Skew | * Skew (a kind of distorsion) | ||
Select the Free Transform tool, then | Select the Free Transform tool, then | ||
* Click on the fill | * Click on the fill or stroke | ||
* Play with the handles (if the bitmap is big, you may have to search for these handle way out of the stage !) | * Play with the handles (if the bitmap is big, you may have to search for these handle way out of the stage !) | ||
Revision as of 16:35, 4 September 2007
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In principle, someone is working on it and there should be a better version in a not so distant future.
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This is part of the Flash tutorials.
- Learning goals
- Learn to deal with colors
- Prerequisites
- Flash CS3 desktop tutorial
- Flash layers tutorial
- Flash drawing tutorial (at least some of it)
- Quality and level
- This text should technical people get going. It's probably not good enough for beginners, but may be used as handout in "hands-on" class. That is what Daniel K. Schneider made it for...
- It aims at beginners. More advanced features and tricks are not explained here.
Color types overview
In Flash there are three kinds of colors
- Normal colors (solid)
- Gradients (linear and radial)
- Bitmaps
Drawing with bitmaps
- Importing a bitmap
There are two solutions:
- You can just paste into the library from the clipboard. I.e. if you see a nice (and copyright free) texture on the Internet: With Firefox (1) View image, (2) Copy Image, (3) CTRL-V into Flash
- Save the image on your computer then click on the Import button in the colors panel.
- Using a bitmap
- You can use the bitmap either as stroke or as fill color.
- Adjusting "gain size"
With the free transform tool you can ajust how a bitmap will be applied. You can change:
- Size, i.e. whether the bitmap is applied as is, or reduced or magnified in x, y direction or both
- Rotation
- Skew (a kind of distorsion)
Select the Free Transform tool, then
- Click on the fill or stroke
- Play with the handles (if the bitmap is big, you may have to search for these handle way out of the stage !)
Note: I have the impression that there may some bugs (i.e. the tool acts strangly when use twice with several instances of the same bitmap).