For now, we’re done. Make as many variations on the fireworks burst as you want; I’ll be making a few more colors and maybe a few more shape bursts for the next lesson, when we’ll be animating them. For now you’ve got your basic scene set, and you should be more familiar with how the basic tools and control panels in Flash are used to create animated scenes, and a few nifty little tricks and effects.
Flash Animation 3: Fireworks E-card
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com Guide
Changing the fill color is extremely simple. With the new copy still selected, just change the swatch colors in the Color Mixer panel and watch the changes reflect on the selected shape. I’ve made this one green, blue, and yellow.
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- Customizing The Document Settings
- Drawing Basic Shapes for a Skyline
- Using Gradient Fills to Draw Windows
- Populating Multiple Instances of the Window Symbols
- Making Stars by Manipulating Alpha Transparency Effects
- Converting Stars to Symbol and Scattering, Gradient Background
- Brush Tool Settings
- Drawing Fireworks
- Copying a Filled Shape to Make Another Instance of Fireworks
- Changing Fill Color & Conclusion
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