Eyedropper (I) - Flash tools

This tool is used to suck up the colors and styles of fills from objects.The dropper tool can also bu used to pick up bitmaps and gradients.

How to use the Eyedropper tool?

1. Select the Eye dropper tool
2. Click it on the color or object what you want (source)
3. Click the object where you want to apply the style or color (destination)

How to do the Bitmap fill using Eyedropper?


1.Place a bitmap image on the stage.
2.Select the bitmap image using the selection tool.
3. Break the image by using Modify-> Break Apart (or) Ctrl+B
4.Select the Eye Dropper tool and click on the image.
Now we can see miniature of the bitmap in the color fill tool box.

Flash - Tools

In Flash,by deault the toolbox is situated on the left-hand side of the screen.
The toolbox window itself divided into four sections.They are Tools,View,Colors and Options.

1.Tools
In this section all the basic design and manipulation options are available.These tools can be used to draw pictures,create text elements ,select objects and move them around the stage.

Selection(Arrow)
Subselection
Line
Lasso
Pen
Text
Oval
Rectangle
Pencil
Brush
Ink Bottle
Paint Bucket
Eyedropper
Eraser

2.View
This section contains tools for two main functions:
i. Zooming in and out on the stage
ii. changing the stage's position on the screen.

Hand
Zoom

3.Colors
The colors section is used to control the color of the Stroke(line) or Fill of an object.

Stroke color
Fill Color

4.Options
Here we can change the properties of the currently selected tool.