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1Getting Acquaintedwith Flash CS4In This Chapter䊳 Introducing Flash䊳 Figuring out what you can create with Flash CS4䊳 Knowing when not to use Flash CS

18Part I: A Blast of Flash The Property inspector has several controls for changing its configuration:⻬TTaabb:: Double-click the tab to switch betwee

Menu What It DoesModify Helps you modify symbols, bitmaps, shapes, frames, Timeline featuresand effects, scenes, or the entire movie (called the docum

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Staging your moviesThe white box in the center of your screen is the Stage.Think of the Stage as a movie screen where you place objects. You can place

22Part I: A Blast of Flash You can drag the upper edge of the Timeline to make room for more layers.Hover the mouse cursor over the top of the Timelin

⻬AAddoobbee AAIIRRexplains how to use Flash CS4 to create desktop applications.⻬FFllaasshh LLiittee explains how to create Flash movies for mobile

24Part I: A Blast of Flash company logo) from a file rather than create them from scratch. (Chapter 3explains how to import and manipulate graphics.)I

Turning your objects into symbolsIn the logo that you imported in the preceding section, each letter is a sepa-rate object, which can get pretty confu

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10Part I: A Blast of Flash Discovering FlashFlash offers a powerful system for creating animation for the Web. In a nut-shell, here’s an overview of h

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30Part I: A Blast of Flash Publishing your first animation for posterityYou can’t watch the animation in a Web browser until you publish your movieand

Exiting FlashWhen you finish creating something in Flash, choose File➪Exit (Windows) orFlash➪Quit (Mac).Figure 1-13: The Movie of the Year animation i

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Understanding What You Can Create with Flash CS4You can use Flash CS4 to create simple animation to add to your Web page.Or you can create an entire W

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If you want simple animation, such as a few blinking dots or a marquee effect,animated GIFs(the animated bitmap graphics that you often see on the Web

14Part I: A Blast of Flash In the Create New section, click one of several options to immediately open anew movie file. These options let you create m

When you open more than one movie, you see a tab at the top for each movie.You can click the tabs to move from movie to movie. The tabs appear in theo

16Part I: A Blast of Flash Tooling around the toolbarsFlash contains two toolbars in the Mac version: the Edit bar and the Controller.In Windows, Flas

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