Making selections
To modify an object, you must first be able to select different parts of it. In Animate, you can make selections using the Selection, Subselection, and Lasso tools. Typically, you use the Selection tool to select an entire object or a section of an object. The Subselection tool lets you select a specific point or line in an object. With the Lasso tool, you can make a free-form selection.
Selecting strokes and fills
Now you’ll refine the ovals to look more like an eye. You’ll use the Selection tool to delete unwanted strokes and fills.
In the Tools panel, select the Selection tool.
Double-click the stroke around the white oval.
The strokes around both the white oval and the black oval become selected.
Press the Delete/Backspace key.
The strokes are deleted, leaving behind a white oval as the highlight.
Choose the Line tool, and enter #000000 (black) as the stroke color.
Draw a diagonal line that cuts through the top of the eyeball.
The straight line creates intersecting shapes in the eyeball so that they can be selected separately.
Choose the Selection tool and click the half-dome gray shape at the tip of the eye.
Press the Delete/Backspace key.
The gray fill is deleted.
Choose the curved stroke above the straight line and delete it.
One eye is finished!