Sunday, January 11, 2009

make a stamp in flash

1/ Open Flash, create some text. It would be better if you choose a font which is bold and thick.

2/ Use the rectangle primitive tool to draw a rectangle around the text. Dont choose stroke color, just choose the fill color. To get rounded corners, set the corner radius to an appropriate value. I used 15 degrees.


3/ With the rectangular object selected (make sure you select all four sides!), go to Modify > Shape > Convert lines to fill. Note the difference when selecting lines vs selecting fills.

Next we need to deal with the text. With the text selected, press Ctrl + B twice, to break the object into fills.
=> You will get the result like this:

4/ Choose the erase tool to erase bits and pieces of our work. Just feel free to do so.

5/ the Ink Bottle tool and start clicking away on the individual pieces you've produced from the erasing.

===> This is the final work. Very simple but impressive huh? ^^

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