Adobe Flash CS3: The Professional Portfolio- P16:Now you can easily create web-ready images and animations within the familiar Adobe environment. With the recent acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe has added Flash to its suite of creative products, thus solidifying its position as the world's leading developer of graphic and visual communications tools. The Against The Clock Portfolio Series Flash title ensures that you'll learn everything you need to complete any job that requires Flash skills | Us Radial and Custom Gradients So far you ve used linear gradients that move from one end of a shape to the other changing color along the way. You can also use radial gradients which start in the center of a shape and radiate outward toward the edges. Radial gradients are very well suited for making round objects appear three dimensional. Fortunately you have several perfect candidates in your drawing for radial gradients the round portholes at the lower rear of the ship. 1. With open select the bottom windows of the rocket ship using the Selection tool. 2. Select the Paint Bucket tool and display the Color panel Window Color . 3. In the Color panel choose Radial from the Type menu. A number of choices are available in the Type menu None which represents no fill Solid or flat colors Linear Radial and Bitmap which affects imported bitmap images allowing you to adjust color tones. Since the three windows are already selected they automatically reflect the new radialgradient fill. Type menu 4- Select the top windows and change the Type to Linear. Because the windows are already selected they are automatically filled with the black-to-white linear gradient. Black-to-white is the last gradient setting you used so it is maintained in the gradient ramp until you choose or create a new gradient. 5. In the Color panel drag the left gradient stop to the midpoint of the gradient ramp. EH Project 1 Rocket Ship Artwork 6- Click under the left end of the ramp to add another gradient stop. 7. While the new gradient stop is selected change the RGB color values to R 0 G 0 B 0 the equivalent of black . Drag the white gradient stop to the midpoint of the ramp. Click below the ramp to add a new gradient stop. With the new stop selected change the RGB values above to 0 0 0. 8. Select the Paint Bucket tool and turn off the Lock Fill modifier at the bottom of the Tools panel. Click near the top of the long window and drag down past the window edge to define the .
