Flash Tools: Color Pallet

Video Transcript

"One last thing before we leave the tool palette. It's not actually in the tool palette, but it's, it's accessible from the tool palette, is the color swatch. I want to really quickly go over the color swatch and explain, explain what's going on in here. And in Flash you have two different color swatches. One for your stroke, let's make our stroke a nice green color. One for our fill, a nice pink color. So you can see these two different colors and any of these options are available to you, whether it's stroke or fill. So you've got your alpha here which is transparency. So for example let's say I decide that want my transparency on my alpha to be fifty, right here you can see the kind of grid system that's showing underneath the color to show you how much transparency is there. You can change to fifty percent, or change to ten percent, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that when you've picked it, you see the transparent symbol here with the grid in the background. And then, you know, if you come over and you decide I want to fill this with that transparent. I'll deselect that first. OK, so there we have this transparency. Now the interesting thing is when it's selected, you can't, you can't tell that it's transparent. It's not until you deselect it. You can just probably barely see that on your screen capture. So let me enlarge the size of it. And the color when it's selected has nothing to do with when it's deselected. But you can see that we've just cut out all of that, all of those strokes and fills that were underneath. If I was to put this on a different layer it wouldn't do that and you'd be able to see the, the other colors showing underneath. In fact, let me do that right now. So I'm going to layer two and paste. And then when I place this on top of other fills, you can see that this is kind of just peaking through. Let me adjust this to fifty percent so you can see a little clearer. And now you can see that we've got this transparency going on here. You do that same thing for the stroke. And then finally down here we have a , and you can select radial gradience. In fact we're going to go through gradience. Let me make another video that talks about that in this next section."