What you’ll learn

Workspace

• Using the Stage and Tools panel
• The Timeline
• Using Flash authoring panels
• Accessibility in the Flash workspace
• Set preferences in Flash

Managing documents

• Working with Flash documents
• Printing Flash documents
• Working with projects

Using imported artwork

• Placing artwork into Flash
• Imported bitmaps
• Working with Illustrator AI files
• Working with InDesign files
• Working with Photoshop PSD files

Creating and Editing Artwork

Drawing

• About drawing
• Drawing modes and graphic objects
• Drawing preferences
• Draw simple lines and shapes
• Drawing with the Pen tool
• Drawing patterns with the Decorative drawing tools

Reshaping objects

• Reshape lines and shapes
• Transforming objects
• Combining objects

Moving, arranging, and deleting artwork

• Selecting objects
• Arranging objects
• Snapping art into position
• Moving and copying objects
• Delete objects

Colors, gradients, and strokes

• The Color panel
• Color palettes
• Create or edit a solid color
• Create or edit a gradient fill
• Adjust Stroke and Fill color
• Duplicate, delete, and clear colors
• Modifying painted areas
• Transform gradient and bitmap fills
• Lock a gradient or bitmap to fill the Stage

Symbols, instances, and library assets

• Working with symbols
• Working with symbol instances
• Working with the library
• Sharing library assets
• Creating buttons
• Scaling and caching symbols
• Symbols

Timelines and Animation

Working with timelines

• Frames and keyframes
• Create and organize layers
• View layers and layer folders
• Guide layers
• Mask layers

Working with scenes

• Create storyboard by scenes
• Naming a scene
• Playback order of scenes

Working with classic tweens

• About classic tweens
• Create and edit keyframes for classic tweens
• Add a classic tween to instances, groups, or type
• Create classic tween motion along a path
• Paste classic tween properties
• Apply custom ease in/ease out to classic tweens

Shape tweening

• Frame-by-frame animation

Text

• About text and fonts
• Creating text
• Setting text attributes

Sound

• Using sounds in Flash
• Exporting Sounds

Publishing and Exporting

• Publish settings
• Specify publish settings for SWF files
• Specify publish settings for HTML documents
• Specify publish settings for Flash Player detection
• Specify publish settings for GIF files
• Specify publish settings for JPEG files
• Specify publish settings for PNG files
• Preview the publishing format and settings
• Using publish profiles