Locking A Gradient Or Bitmap To Fill The Stage; Modifying Color Palettes - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

Locking a gradient or bitmap to fill the Stage

You can lock a gradient or bitmap fill to make it appear that the fill extends over the entire Stage
and that the objects painted with the fill are masks revealing the underlying gradient or bitmap.
For information on applying a bitmap fill, see
When you select the Lock Fill modifier with the Brush or Paint Bucket tool and paint with the
tool, the bitmap or gradient fill extends across the objects you paint on the Stage.
Using the Lock Fill modifier creates the appearance of a single gradient or bitmap fill being applied to
separate objects on the Stage.
To use a locked gradient fill:
Select the Brush or Paint Bucket tool and select a gradient or bitmap as a fill.
1.
Select Linear Gradient or Radial Gradient from the Fill Style pop-up menu in the center of the
2.
Color Mixer and then select the Brush or Paint Bucket tool.
Click the Lock Fill modifier.
3.
First paint the areas where you want to place the center of the fill, and then move to other areas.
4.
To use a locked bitmap fill:
Select the bitmap you want to use.
1.
Select Bitmap from the Fill Style pop-up menu in the center of the Color Mixer before selecting
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the Brush or Paint Bucket tool.
Select the Brush or Paint Bucket tool.
3.
Click the Lock Fill modifier.
4.
First paint the areas where you want to place the center of the fill, and then move to other areas.
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Modifying color palettes

Each Flash file contains its own color palette, stored in the Flash document. Flash displays a file's
palette as swatches in the Fill Color and Stroke Color controls and in the Color Swatches panel.
The default color palette is the web-safe palette of 216 colors. You can add colors to the current
color palette using the Color Mixer. See
Mixer" on page 77.
To import, export, and modify a file's color palette, you use the Color Swatches panel. You can
duplicate colors, remove colors from the palette, change the default palette, reload the web-safe
palette if you have replaced it, or sort the palette according to hue.
You can import and export both solid and gradient color palettes between Flash files, as well as
between Flash and other applications, such as Macromedia Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop.
82 Chapter 4: Working with Color
"Applying a bitmap fill" on page
"Working with solid colors and gradient fills in the Color
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