Flash Review: Adjusting Color with Symbols

Sometimes you'll find that your Flash animation calls for multiple symbols that look exactly alike save for one thing: their color. You may be animating Skittles, or creating a bed of flowers, or millions of other possibilities that would call for the exact same shape filled by different shades. You'd think this would be a pain, forcing you to duplicate and individually edit the symbol until you had as many as you needed in all the right colors - but by tweaking the color options of symbols, you can skip that step and just apply tints to instances of one original symbol.