Re: FLASH: Best drawing/painting tools for flash

[John Dowdell]

At 4:46 PM 10/24/0, PSWoods wrote:

>you still need to have freehand in your toolbox, though. how are you going

>to:

>

>attach stuff to paths

>create perfect polygons in 5 seconds or less

>crop, punch, etc.

>create lens effects

>create 3D perspective effortlessly


Text-to-curve, 3D perspective, magnification lens... that's all FreeHand,

for sure.


For polygons, keep a FLA with basic shapes in your "Libraries" folder, so

you can instantly drag them in and "Break Apart" to customize.


For cropping, punching and the rest, see:

"How can I draw the intersection of two shapes?"

http://www.macromedia.com/go/14359



jd






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