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Using rulers and guides - Flash Professional Tutorial
From the course: Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training
Using rulers and guides
With Rulers and Guides you can really fine-tune the placement of objects in Flash. So on the Stage here, I have a girl on a bicycle and let's say I wanted to move her exactly 10 pixels from the right edge of the Stage, so to do that I can use Rulers and Guides. To show the Rulers you can go to View > Rulers, and then the Rulers appear on the Stage. You can view this in pixels or in inches on in centimeters. You can adjust those settings under Flash > Preferences. So my Stage width is 384 pixels, so I want the right edge of the biker to be at 374 pixels. So to do that I am going to drag out a guide, to drag a guide just click inside of the Rulers and drag out. So I am clicking and dragging out and I could see that my cursor is updated and there is a vertical line there, and I can click-and-drag to place the guide wherever I want. So I am going to estimate where 10 pixels from the edge of the Stage is and release my mouse button. You can now see that light-blue guide has dropped out of…
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Selecting lines and fills3m 57s
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Modifying lines and fills2m 16s
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Using the Pen tool5m 25s
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Using the Brush tool5m 52s
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Optimizing shapes for enhanced performance1m 15s
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Using the Eraser tool1m 54s
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Working with groups2m 39s
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Using the Eyedropper tool1m 20s
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Changing fill and stroke colors with the Paint Bucket and Ink Bottle tools3m 30s
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Using the Color panel2m 50s
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Using the Color Swatches panel1m 51s
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Creating gradients2m 19s
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Using the Gradient Transform tool2m 4s
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Using the Free Transform tool3m 27s
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Aligning objects with the Align panel3m 57s
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Using the 3D tools4m 11s
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Using rulers and guides2m 11s
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