Creating shapes with the Pen tool and working with anchor points

The Pen tool allows you to draw complex shapes in Flash.…If you've used the Pen tool in other applications like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe…Illustrator, you're in luck, because the Pen tool in Flash works the same way.…All the keyboard shortcuts are the same as well.…So we have our elephant here, and I'm going to use the Pen tool to draw him a…pool of water to drink.…So I'll select the Pen tool from the toolbar, and just notice that it also has…a flyout menu with the Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point, and Convert…Anchor Point tools.…So you'll see in the Property inspector that the Pen tool doesn't have a fill color;…It only works with a stroke color. And we're going to leave ours at black with…a 1-point stroke is fine, and I'll this in Merge Drawing mode…so the icon here at the bottom is the lighter gray instead of the darker gray.…

One way to work with the Pen tool is to point and click.…Then I'll just move my mouse and point and click again, all the way around a circle.…You'll notice that all the lines are straight.…