Create a logo with the Pen tool

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Introduction

Ch. 1. Basic Tasks: Create a Document

Ch. 2. Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part 1

Ch. 3. Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part 2

Ch. 4. Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part 3

Ch. 5. Basic Tasks: Create Accessible Flash Content

Ch. 6. Basic Tasks: Work with Layers

Ch. 7. Basic Tasks: Create an Application

Ch. 8. Basic Tasks: Use Layout Tools

Ch. 9. Basic Tasks: Create Symbols and Instances

Ch. 10. Basic Tasks: Add Button Animation and Navigation

Ch. 11. Basic Tasks: Create a Presentation with Screens (Flash Professional Only)

Ch. 12. Creating Graphics: Draw in Flash

Set up your workspace

Select a shape tool

Select options to create a polygon

Draw a polygon

Rotate the shape

Use the cutout feature

Transform the shape of your drawing

Copy strokes

Draw with the Line tool

Select and add a different fill color

Group the shape

Create a logo with the Pen tool

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Ch. 13. Creating Graphics: Create a Timeline Animation

Ch. 14. Creating Graphics: Making Animations with Easing (Flash Professional only)

Ch. 15. Creating Graphics: Applying Gradients

Ch. 16. Creating Graphics: Apply Graphic Filters and Blends (Flash Professional Only)

Ch. 17. Text: Add Text to a Document

Ch. 18. ActionScript: Use Script Assist mode

Ch. 19. ActionScript: Add Interactivity

Ch. 20. ActionScript: Write Scripts

Ch. 21. ActionScript: Create a Form with Conditional Logic and Send Data

Ch. 22. ActionScript: Work with Objects and Classes

Ch. 23. Data Integration: Overview (Flash Professional Only)

Ch. 24. Data Integration: Using the Macromedia Tips Web Service (Flash Professional Only)

Ch. 25. Data Integration: Using XML for a Timesheet (Flash Professional Only)

Ch. 26. Data Integration: Using XUpdate to Update the Timesheet (Flash Professional Only)

Official Product Documentation from Macromedia

Training from the Source

Create a logo with the Pen tool

The Pen tool offers a way to draw precise straight or curved line segments. You click to create points on straight line segments, and drag to create points on curved line segments. You can adjust the segments by adjusting points on the line. You’ll use the Pen tool to create the logo.

1.	In the Tools panel, select the Pen tool.
2.	Click the dot next to the number 1, and then click the dot next to the number 2 to create a straight line segment.
3.	Click the dot next to the number 3 and next to the number 4 in sequence (as though you were completing a dot-to-dot drawing). You create the straight line segments that comprise the logo.
4.	To close the path, position the Pen tool over the first anchor point (the dot by number 1). A small circle appears next to the pen tip when it is positioned correctly. Click to close the path. After the path is closed, it fills with the selected fill color. By default, selected curve points appear as hollow circles, and selected corner points appear as hollow squares.
5.	With the Selection tool, move the pointer around the logo that you created. When you move the pointer over a corner point, which you can drag to create various angles, the pointer appears as follows: When you move the pointer over a curved line segment (you don’t have curve points in your logo), which you can drag to create various curved lines, the pointer appears as follows:

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Create a logo with the Pen tool