Self Review 1: Tracing Image, Working With Gradients

Today, mommy spent the whole day to do mommy's homework. Pity to mommy's kids because mommy can't spent more time together with them. It's because mommy will going back to Kelantan for Majlis Tahlil at 40days late father in law. So, mommy need to finished all mommy's homework before going back to Kelantan. Mommy cannot come to Authoring Class next week...So sad!

Ok, back to mommy's homework. Last entry, mommy already story about how to trace the image. For this entry, mommy will continue with colouring the picture.

Mommy import Trisyia's picture to stage.

After finished trace the Trisyia's image, the result will be like this:

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To colour the image, click icon Paint Bucket Tool. Then, click icon Fill Color to choose the colour you wished.

After that, you colouring the picture by clicking the image. Mommy's already done colouring the Trisyia's image. Wanna see mommy's result?

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Working With Gradient

1. Mommy used Trisyia's image to make a gradient colour.

2. First, go to Windows menu bar and choose Color.

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 3. Look at below explaination about color window. How to use this thing?

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4. Try to play around with this thing. It was so awesome! You can make mixed up colour that you wished. To colouring the image, its using the same step which is click icon Paint Bucket Tool and clicking on image.

5. To add more colours, move your mouse underneath the gradient bar until you see a plus sign next to your cursor. Click to add a new colour box. You can drag this colour along the gradient bar until you get the effect you desire. To change the colour of the box, double click on the box and select the colour of your choice from the colour change options.

6. To remove colours from a gradient, click on the colour box of the colour you don't want and then drag the colour box downwards until it disappears.

7. To make a colour in the gradient transparent, click on the colour box and then change the Alpha Setting from 100% to the level of transparency you require. Note that you probably won't see the transparency effect until you place the fill over another object on the stage.

8. After finished reading the gradient explaination, we start with using Trisyia's image.

Fill Options Menu: Linear

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 Fill Options Menu: Radial

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9. Mommy's already done colouring the image using gradient colour. Wanna see the result?

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Which is better? Using Gradient colour or Solid colour? You evaluate for mommy...

Now, mommy's homework for week 2 completely done! Mommy need rest because the whole day mommy in front of PC doing task...Goodbye!