Flash Tools: Gradient Transform Tool

Video Transcript

"Okay, so we've gone through a couple of these tools, and you'll notice here if you see this ever so tiny--you probably have to look on your version of flash because this screen's so small, but on the bottom right hand corner of the Transform tool, the Pen tool, the Shape tool, and on these Color Chips, you'll see a small, black arrow. And that basically means that there are multiple tools in that toolbox. So if you click down on the Free Transform tool, and hold, you'll see there's another tool hiding called the Gradient Transform tool. And that's just a way that they can organize multiple amounts of tools within a small tool box, essentially. So, if you click on the Gradient Transform tool, it doesn't really do anything because we don't have a gradient here. However, we go down and we'll get to this later, if we go down and pick a gradient--let's pick this gradient right there, and we fill this shape with that gradient, now when we click on the Transform tool, and click to activate it, we get these lines and shapes that basically allows us to control that gradient. So here I'm just clicking and dragging, and you can see that this gradient is only being applied between this line here and this line here. So this is kind of the beginning of the gradient, the end of the gradient. And if you spread this out, you'll see that the gradient covers the entire shape within these two boundaries. Now you cannot only squish and stretch the gradient horizontally and vertically, but you can also rotate by clicking and dragging up here, and then you can rotate it or stretch it with the tools that we spoke about before. You can always also change the origin, again, by clicking and dragging on the origin point. So, there's a lot of different ways to manipulate the gradient using the Gradient Transform tool, which again is under the same tool chip as the Free Transform tool."