Straighten Tool of Flash: A Boon for Designers
Author: Akhila Choudhary<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->
Designing in Flash is a completely breezy affair. Over the years, major game design, website design, graphic and animation design assignments have been done using Flash worldwide and the results have been quite amazing. Flash CS3 designers who are the experts in the Flash CS3 software that was released in 2007 have liked the host of new features that have been incorporated into the software. Among the most notable features mention may especially be made of tween-to-code animation converter, fully customizable workspace, a PSD importer and full ActionScript 3.0 support.
Any Flash site design professional needs to play with all the functions of the software in order to get the optimum out of it in his/her business mission. The Straighten Tool of Flash that is used for drawing a perfect circle, oval, square, rectangle, or arc is also of great value in this matter.
Normally drawing in Flash using the mouse is messy with your shape squiggles and line wobbles. To get rid of this, you can use the Straighten Tool of Flash besides using the Smooth Tool. Both are options for the Arrow Tool. While the Smooth Tool is located in the left, the Straighten Tool can be found in the right. While drawing any figure by using the Straighten Tool of Flash, you can set the sensitivity of how Flash determines a shape in the Preference dialog box. By choosing Edit, Preferences you can access these preferences.
Just like the Smooth tool of Flash, the Straighten tool also works in gradual increments. But the end results are more sharp-edged involving straighter lines and connecting corners rather than rounding out. Design in Flash using this Straighten Tool is considered to be a very common practice these days. A Flash web designer who needs to satisfy every demand and requirement of his/her client uses the function in almost every step towards his project. In a nutshell, for Flash web designers the feature is a boon if not less!
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