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  Flash Drawing :
PENCIL TOOL









Pencil Tool

The Pencil tool is used in much the same way that you would use a real pencil to draw. Simply select the tool and drag on the Stage to draw with the Pencil tool.



SHIFT key : Constrain directions

You can press the Shift key while dragging to constrain lines to vertical or horizontal directions.



Colors

You can specify the color with the Stroke Color Tool.

Color Tools:
Tool Box : Colors



Smoothing and Straightening

You can apply smoothing or straightening to the lines by setting a Pencil mode.

Pencil Modes:
Pencil Tool : drawing modes



Stroke panel : Window > Panels > Stroke

Finally, you can specify line style (solid, dotted etc.), line width in pixels and color using the Stroke panel.

Stroke Panel:
Panels : Stroke


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