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Stage 2 Drawing in Animate

At the bottom of the Tools panel, a number of options affect what will happen when you create new
drawing objects. Stroke color

• Click the Stroke Color or Fill Color swatch to open Fill color
a pop-up Swatches panel, where you can select a Black and White Swap colors
new color for the relevant attribute (stroke of fill).
Object Drawing
• Clicking the Black and White button resets the Snap to Objects
default colors to a black stroke and white fill.
• Clicking the Swap Colors button reverses the active Click the Fill Color or
stroke and fill colors. Stroke Color swatch
to open the pop-up
Swatches panel.

When you draw with the basic shape tools, or with the Pen, Line, Pencil, Paint Brush, or Brush
tool, a toggle near the bottom of the Tools panel determines what type of drawing you will create.
• When the Object Drawing button is not highlighted ( ), shapes are created
in merge-drawing mode.
• When the Object Drawing button is highlighted ( ), shapes are created in
object-drawing mode.

All shapes drawn in merge-drawing mode exist at the bottom of the stacking order on their layer.
In other words, they are always behind other objects — groups, drawing objects, symbol instances,
etc. — in the same layer. You cannot rearrange the stacking order of merge-drawing shapes.
When you create an object in merge-drawing mode, the fill and stroke are treated as separate
entities. You can individually select each part with the Selection (solid arrow) tool, and you can move
or modify each part without affecting the other.
In the examples shown here, the oval shape was created in merge-drawing mode. It has a defined
orange fill and blue stroke.

Click with the Selection tool Click and drag to move Drag a selection marquee Move or delete only
to select the fill or the stroke; only the selected area. to select part of a shape. the selected pixels.
the cross-hatch pattern
indicates the selected area.

When you drag one merge-drawing shape onto another on the same layer, the topmost shape
removes whatever portion of the lower shape(s) it covers.
In the image to the right, the second column shows that we moved
the orange circle on top of the blue circle. In the third column, you
see the result of deselecting the orange circle, and then reselecting
it and pulling it away from the blue circle. (This type of destructive
interaction does not occur until you deselect the topmost object,
which gives you a chance to “finalize” the edit. As long as you still see
the crosshatch pattern on the object you’re dragging, the underlying
objects have not yet been changed.)

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