Flash CS4 All-in-One For Dummies- P6: Welcome to Flash CS4 All-in-One For Dummies. Our goal when writing this book was to share our enthusiasm for Flash and, at the same time, demystify the application. You can do so many things with Flash that it becomes mind boggling. The minibooks in this reference are designed to take the boggle out of your mind and show you how to use Flash to create Web banners, animations, and other delights. We also delve into the topics of ActionScript and Flash video. | Finding Your Way around the Swatches Panel 127 After clicking the current fill color swatch move the cursor to the Stage and click an object whose color you want to match perfectly. This technique is an ideal way to match a color from an image or a logo. 4. Accept the default Alpha value or drag the scrubby slider to specify a different value. Alternatively you can double-click the current value and enter one of your own. When you specify a value less than 100 percent the color of underlying objects or the background is visible which changes the hue of the stroke. When you specify a low value more of the underlying color influences the color of the stroke. Finding Your Way around the Swatches Panel The Swatches panel is what you see when you specify a stroke or fill color. There are however other ways to access this color collection of cubes that may have inspired Rubik. If you re the adventurous type you ll be glad to know that you have full control over the colors in the panel. You can delete colors add colors and export colors for example. We show you how to use the Swatches panel in the following sections. Understanding Web-safe colors In a perfect world you could use any color and it would look the same in all Web browsers and all operating systems. But don t forget the infamous browser wars and whether tis nobler to Mac or PC facts that leave the poor Flash designer in a color-choosing quandary. Most modern monitors and video cards can display any color you can throw at them. However if you re creating a Flash project that will be viewed on a device that doesn t support 16- or 24-bit color choose your colors from the default Flash color palette which consists of 216 colors that are unsafe at any speed er we mean safe in any browser viewed on any platform. Getting to know the Swatches panel The Swatches panel has color swatches 216 to be exact and gradient swatches. You use the Swatches panel to select colors for the fill and stroke of objects created with the
