Flash Tools: Pencil Tool

Video Transcript

"And let's go down to our next tool now. And this tool is the Pencil tool. So, again much like in other applications it's kind of a free hand. You know what, let's select Apple A or Control A and delete. Let's just start, start again. And here you can just you know free hand draw whatever it is that you want. But there's one except, one difference. We have a tool down here called, actually I don't know what it's called, but it's got three different options. It gives you a straight option, a smooth option or an ink option. So let me show the the difference. Let's go with the ink option first. And it just basically gives you exactly the lines that you've drawn. If you go to the smooth option, anything that's jagged or that the computer doesn't think is very smooth, it will smooth out. So you see how this makes some nice smooth lines? And then you got the straight tool, which will convert within that the tolerance will convert certain lines to right angles and you know various geometric angles. And so depending on the look that you're look, that you're going for, this is a pretty, this is a pretty, pretty useful tool. So with the Pen tool, the Pencil tool, you know, you have in your properties palate, same settings that you have for your stroke. So if we want to get a nice fat stroke that has dotted lines and we want it to be this color, we can, you know, get whatever we're looking for. So, you can play around with the Pencil tool, I don't use it a ton, but it comes in handy every now and then."