Adobe Animate: Enhanced Parenting

Name: Adobe Animate: Enhanced Parenting
Author: Jessica Henley

Learn tools for parenting and transforming in Adobe Animate.

Preview the first lesson free — get full access to all 5 lessons.

Course: On-Demand

Hello, my name is Jessica Henley, and in these lessons I will show you how to use the Scale Tool, Skew Objects, use the Free Transform Tool, Distorting Objects, and using the Envelope Tool. In this lesson, I will show you how to scale objects for enhanced parenting. What I'm going to do is copy some of this flower and move it to a different symbol. So with the selection tool activated, I have locked the pen guide and the bug. And I just want this much of the flower. And I'm going to hold down shift and deselect both of the leaves. From here, I'm just going to right-click and convert to symbol. Here I'm just going to name this flower 3 Because I want this to be separated. So here I have flower three. And I'm going to use flower three and put it into a vase. And show you how you can have multiple flowers and parent those objects together for scaling. So I'm going to go ahead and create the vase. Heading down below, I can create a new symbol, name this vase, And create a quick vase. So I'll start with the line tool. Change the size of the line. Three is fine. I'm just going to curve this a little bit. Add the other side. Now as I go down, I'm just going to pull this like this And I'll curve the outside edges in a moment. Switching to the selection tool, I can now curve these outer edges. And as I curve it, I'm just looking to see how I want to change it up by just pulling it on the edges here. And now let's create the bottom of the vase. And now I'm just going to go ahead and pull this down like this. And if I have any stragglers I can just move those. So this is my cartoon vase and I'm going to go ahead and. Name layer one layer one will be called base. Now before I cover the base I'm going to go to the library, create a new layer. This layer will be called flowers. Actually, they need to be separated for the parenting. So I'll put flower 1. Now in the library, I'm using flower 3. So I'm just going to click and drag this over. Put the vase on top. I do need to color it to hide the stem. So to color it to hide the stem, I just click on the fill and I just choose a color for my vase. Now I won't paint bucket, so I'm just going to go to close gap size, close large gaps, and click it like this. And click it like this. Now for my vase, I'm going to lock the flower and I just need to create a back For the vase and I need to color that a darker color of what I have So I'm going to go to the color wheel Choose a darker color of what I have maybe like this and Head over to the pink bucket. The shortcut for pink bucket is the letter K. I just click inside like that. It's going to bring this down. And here's my flower. So what I want to do is just rotate these and for parenting. For a parent all the layers together I just need a few more flowers so I'm going to. Click on the new layer button and create two more layers. So this is flower two. Why not copy and paste? So right click, Copy, Flower 2, right click, paste in place, move it over. And I definitely want One more. So here, new layer, Flower 3. Paste and pull it over. And pull it over. OK, so I have my flowers here, and we're going to talk about how to parent these together. I'm going to parent all the flowers to the vase. So when I click on the vase, all the objects are selected. Now what I need to do is turn the vase into its own symbol. So here I have base which has all the objects. But if you look carefully, I click on the vase, it's not selecting the whole thing. If I click on the flower, it does. So I need to create the vase as a symbol. As I click on vase, I can right-click and hold, convert to symbol. I can't use the same name, or I'll get an error, so I'll put SM for short, and press OK. Now what I want to do is go ahead and show you how to use show parenting view. Now each one of these boxes and these colors represent the layers. But what I can do is click and hold. You see as I click and hold, I can pull it. And it's now being parented to the vase. So if I click and hold, it is now being pulled into the vase. And you can see it says set parent in the parent of the vase are the flowers. Now if I double tap the outline I can show the visibility. You can also play around with the opacity if you wanna change the color. So if you wanna make it a little see-through, I'll press cancel on that. And it's on outline mode, so I'm just gonna go ahead and turn that back on. So now when I click on the vase, everything is being selected because it's parented. And if I scale, you can see that they're all being scaled together because of the parenting. Now if this was not a symbol and you attempted to parent and then scale, all the objects would not follow it. So don't skip that step with making sure the vase is its own symbol. And I can just go ahead too and rename this. I could say vase and flowers. In the next lesson, I will show you how to skew objects.

Beginner Provider : Jessica Henley 5 Lessons · 21m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

Adobe Animate: Enhanced Parenting discusses how to create and manipulate text using various tools for manipulating shape, size, and design. You’ll take a look at the scale tool and free transform tool to change the size and rotate objects. The free transform tool also has various options not always obvious at first glance. By diving deeper into the free transform tool, you will learn more about how to access the skew options and how to make the text morph into different shapes. You will also learn how to take combined words and use the Adobe settings menu to separate them into independent, separated letters. You will explore how to morph letters by accessing the distorting tool to create fun and appealing shapes. You will also learn how to do enhanced parenting, which includes how to use different tools such as the scale, skew, free transform tool, distorting tool, and the envelope tool.

What You'll Learn

Utilize the Adobe Animate text tool to create and manipulate text
Apply the scale tool and free transform tool to resize and rotate objects
Access skew options within the free transform tool to morph text into different shapes
Separate combined words into independent letters using the Adobe settings menu
Distort letters with the distorting tool to create appealing shapes
Perform enhanced parenting using the scale, skew, free transform, distorting, and envelope tools

Key Takeaways

The course covers creating and manipulating text using tools that change shape, size, and design in Adobe Animate.
The free transform tool offers options that are not always obvious at first glance, including access to skew options.
Combined words can be separated into independent, separated letters using the Adobe settings menu.
The distorting tool lets you morph letters to create fun and appealing shapes.
Enhanced parenting involves using the scale, skew, free transform, distorting, and envelope tools.

Frequently Asked Questions

What tools does this course teach for manipulating objects in Adobe Animate?

It covers the scale tool, skew, the free transform tool, the distorting tool, and the envelope tool for changing shape, size, design, and rotation of objects.

What will I be able to do with text after taking this course?

You will learn to create and manipulate text, morph it into different shapes, and separate combined words into independent, separated letters using the Adobe settings menu.

What is enhanced parenting in this course?

Enhanced parenting includes using different tools such as the scale, skew, free transform tool, distorting tool, and the envelope tool.

What lessons are included in this course?

The lessons are Using the Scale Tool, Skew Objects, Using the Free Transform Tool, Distorting Objects, and Using the Envelope Tool.