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Draw custom bitmap costumes

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Draw custom bitmap costumes

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- [Voiceover] So let's say you want to animate a bitmap using its costumes. Unlike in vector mode bitmap mode does not allow you to select individual shapes. Because a bitmap is made with pixels, rather than shapes. So let's look at some of the options that you have, when editing a bitmap, so that you can make an animation. Now our goal here is to make the palm tree sway back and forth. So I have my palm tree selected and in the costumes tab, and I have my costume selected. I'm going to duplicate this costume, add in the duplicate that is framed number two, so there's number two, and the palm tree two is the name, of this costume. In the duplicate I'm going to select the palm tree. So I'm going to use this select tool and then click and drag, a selection area around the palm tree. Now I want everything except for the base of the palm tree. I just wanna a few pixels of the bottom, so that I can use as a reference when I rotate the tree, to make sure that the base stays in the same…

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