Flash+Tools

** Flash Tools ** – Get acquainted with Flash's stage & basic tools
=Lesson Objective: =
 * Learn how to customize your stage and movie settings
 * Learn how to use the brush, line, and shape tools
 * Learn how to group, copy and resize a shape
 * Learn how to break up an object so you can control it at the pixel level



Assignment goal is to use the drawing tools in Flash to create this image
Watch this video first: ** Introduction to Flash Tools Video **

Open Flash CS6 & select--> Actionscript 3.0 Additional video support:__[|Setting the size of your stage in flash]__ Videos [|Difference between brush & pencil Tool] Drawing with the paint brush tool Tools: Use Paint Brush, Selection Tool (solid arrow), and Paint Bucket to do the following: Videos [|Shapes & Vector Drawing Tools]
 * INSTRUCTIONS:**
 * Set up your stage: **
 * 1) Set a background for your movie (color your choice)
 * 2) · Set movie dimensions: **640 px X 480 px**
 * 3) · **Divide the stage into four equal sections**, using the Line Tool to draw black lines (8.5 stroke) width to mark off the quadrants. For accuracy in drawing the demarcation (boundary or separation) lines, use the **Show Grid** feature.(view-->Show Grid & show Ruler)
 * 4) · Use the **Text Tool to place a number in each blank quadrant's** upper left corner. C**olor: red font: Comic Sans MS, size: 36**. Number from 1 - 4, beginning with the **upper left quadrant and numbering clockwise**.
 * 5) Save AS: **Flash Tools**
 * 6) **Each quadrant will contain different items.**
 * Quadrant One **
 * paint 2 short curved lines, in different colors.
 * using the Subselection tool(hollow arrow), reshape one line (i.e., curled, forked, bulged, drag ends or sides out etc.)
 * copy the reshaped line and paste it in the quadrant, then change the color with the fill tool (bucket)
 * Quadrant Two **
 * Tools:** Use Rectangle Tool, Oval Tool and draw the following:

=** PUBLISH: **=
 * 1 perfect square: green fill with 3 stroke lines: 2 orange; one blue; stroke width: 4
 * 1 oval, no fill
 * 1 happy face, with ears (use a selection tool (Arrow) to reshape/sculpt if needed
 * Quadrant Three **
 * Tools:** Use Text Tool, Subselection Tool (hollow arrow-see tool reference above), Break Apart Feature
 * Type 3 text different words - your choice of font, size and color, align left.
 * B reak apart the words into individual letters (right-click-->break apart).
 * Then break apart the letters into pixels(right-click-->break apart).
 * Using a selection tool, click on and pull pixels of letters to misshape them and change the color of some of the letters.
 * Quadrant Four **
 * Tools:** Use Group, Scale, and Rotate Features
 * · G roup the following objects: 1) **face (a copy) from Quadrant 2**, and 2) **reshaped line (a copy) from Quadrant 1**.
 * ·Make a copy of the group and resized (scale down) and rotate 180 degrees
 * 1) go to FILE--> ** PUBLISH ** SETTINGS
 * 2) Check off ONLY GIF and save to your animation folder.
 * 3) Select **PUBLISH** & OK
 * SHARE** your results:
 * 1) **Go to your blog** and create a **NEW POST** titled: **Flash Drawing Tools**
 * 2) Write about your first experiences using the tools - 4 sentences or more.
 * 3) Upload the **GIF i**mage to your blog.
 * 4) ALSO take a screenshoot of the image and paste it in an email to buterawork@gmail.com for credit.