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Flash comes with a set of drawing tools designed to keep your graphics as compact as possible. Many of the drawing tools can be used in conjunction with the snap feature to align objects and create perfect circles, squares, as well as horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.
The arrow tool allows you to select, move, copy, and delete objects. Selected objects may be scaled, rotated, and skewed. Their height-to-width ratio can also be altered and shapes can be straightened to modify their curves or smoothed to reduce the number of points.

The text tool allows text to be entered in various fonts, colors, and point sizes. Bold and italic features are included, as are justification, margins, indentations, line spacing, and kerning (letter spacing).

The pencil tool allows lines to be drawn in various thicknesses and colors. Line styles can be modified for special effects such as dotted or broken lines. Pencil options also allow creation of ovals, rectangles, and straight lines, as well as lines that smooth themselves out or straighten to conform to common geometric shapes.

An ink bottle tool allows line thickness, style and color to be modified after drawing.

A brush tool offers several sizes and shapes of brushes for creating shapes. It offers pressure-sensitivity for those drawing with a digitizing tablet. Special brush styles let you paint around lines, paint behind already drawn objects, paint only selected areas of the drawing, or paint only within an enclosed area.

The paint bucket allows filling an enclosed area with solid colors, gradients, or tiled bitmap images. Gradients may be radial or linear and are custom-definable. Once placed, a gradient can be scaled, stretched, rotated, and re-centered. The paint bucket can be modified to ignore gaps in the shape it is filling. It can also extend a gradient pattern among different shapes, using the gradient lock feature.

The eraser tool removes lines and fills. It can be set to various sizes and shapes, and can be modified to erase only lines, fills, selected fills, or a specific fill area.

A dropper tool allows easy copying of line or fill attributes from one object to an associated drawing tool.

The magnifying tool allows enlargement or reduction of a part of the stage.

The lasso tool alows you to select any portion of your drawing you wish. It includes a magic wand option for selecting color areas of a bitmap.

When the paint bucket or ink bottle is selected, colors (including gradients) may be selected and customized by accessing the color palette via a rectangle that displays the current color selection.