Flash Tools: Transform Tool

Video Transcript

"And the next tool that we want to look at is the Free Transform tool. Now the Free Transform tool will basically allow you to select the entire, once you've selected the entire object, you can then transform the scale. If you hold down the Shift key it'll constrain it so that it does not distort it. If you let go of the shift key, you can stretch it, squash it, reverse it, do whatever you want. So, that's one way to use the Transform key, tool. The other way is if you don't want to transform on a corner, you just want to constrain it to one axis. You can click and drag on these handles here, or these handles here. Finally, this middle point here. The center point is what's called the origin. So let's say we want to move the origin over here, then what happens is we transform around that origin, rather than transforming from the center. And if you place your mouse over to the side, you'll see this Rotate tool, which translates or rotates the shape around that origin. So let's see what the difference would be if we moved that back to the center. See how that rotates around the center, so it's important to know where your point of origin is."