12 Apr 09 Using the ink bottle tool in adobe’s flash Cs3

An over-spilled, lop-sided ink-pot, looking cool at one corner of the tool bar in Adobe's Flash is just an abasement of the tremendous magical powers this tool is gifted with. Rather than selecting individual lines and objects, as in case of pen or pencil tools, to the wonder of any  flash web designer, this tool at a time selects in bundles.

A face to face comparison of the ink tool with the paint tool is quite interesting when designing using Flash. The paint tool is used to fill the outline of an object whereas the ink bottle tool is used to outline the fill of an object. Thus, the fill relates to the color being painted inside a boundary and the outline vis-à-vis refers to the strokes being inked at the edges of the color.

Flash cs3 designers can be modify these strokes as desired with the aid of stroke panel that comes with most versions of Adobe flash Cs3. This property lets them customize the desired thickness, style, color and accentuate the appearance of the object under experiment.

How to use the ink bottle tool

It's almost a child play to use the ink bottle tool for flash site design.

• To apply a stroke to design a flash-
• Select the Ink bottle tool by clicking on it.
• Choose the stroke color from the color tools.
• From the stroke panel now customize the style and width of the stroke required.
• Clicking the object under experiment will tabulate the changes.

Noteworthy is that the ink bottle tool is fill-blind; it only distinguishes the outlines or stand alone lines created by the pen or pencil tool. Therefore, it does not matter in the last stage of clicking the object, whether the flash web designers click the fill or the outlines.

Moreover, if there are no outlines in the selected object, like a colored motif, can be easily outlined by mere one click of the picture.

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