Flash glossary: Oval tool
The Oval and Rectangle tools in Adobe Flash Professional enable you to create basic geometric shapes and apply strokes and fills; you can also specify rounded corners. In addition to the Merge and Object drawing modes, the Oval and Rectangle tools provide the Primitive Object drawing mode.
To access the Oval tool, select it from the Tools panel. Then you can do the following:
- To draw a perfectly symmetrical circle, hold down the Shift key when dragging the Oval tool on the Stage.
- To draw the oval shape from the center (rather than from the left corner), hold down the Alt key (Windows) or the Option key (Mac OS).
- After drawing the oval, you can use the Free Transform tool or the Subselection tool to modify the oval's path.
- To select and reposition the oval without changing its path, use the Selection tool.
To learn more about working with the Oval tool, see the section titled Draw simple lines and shapes in the Flash documentation.
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