Topic 1 The Flash Workspace

Topic Objectives
The Welcome Screen
Flash’s work area
The Tools panel
Working with panels
Customizing your workspace
The context menu
Zooming in and out

Scrolling the view
Flash’s preferences
Undo, Redo, and Repeat commands
Using the History panel
Reverting to the last saved version
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Topic 2 Creating and managing Flash documents

Topic Objectives
General Flash workflow
About Flash files
Creating a new Flash document
Saving Flash documents
Setting Document Properties

Viewing a document when multiple documents are open
About templates
About Adobe Device Central
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Topic 3 Importing, creating and transforming graphics

Topic Objectives
Bitmap and Vector Images
Importing artwork into Flash
Importing Illustrator artwork into Flash
Importing Photoshop artwork into Flash
About the Flash drawing models
The Pencil tool
Drawing straight lines
Drawing rectangles and ovals
Drawing ovals and rectangles
Drawing polygons and stars

Painting with the Brush tool
Reshaping lines and shape outlines
Erasing
Selecting objects
Moving, copying and deleting objects
Moving or copying objects between layers
Arranging objects
Grouping and breaking objects apart
Transforming objects
Flipping objects
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Topic 4 Working with colour, strokes, and fills

Topic Objectives
Working with Colour
Strokes, fills, and gradients
Creating or editing a solid colour
Creating or editing a gradient fill
Modifying colour palettes
Applying a bitmap as a fill
Modifying strokes with the Ink Bottle tool

Applying solid, gradient, and bitmap fills with the Paint Bucket tool
Transforming gradient and bitmap fills
Copying strokes and fills with the Eyedropper tool
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Topic 5 Symbols

Topic Objectives
About Symbols
Creating symbols
Creating instances of symbols
Editing symbols
Changing instance properties

Swapping one instance for another
Changing an instance’s type
Copying library assets between documents
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Topic 6 The Timeline and Layers

Topic Objectives
About the Timeline
About frames and keyframes
About layers
Creating layers and layer folders

Viewing layers and layer folders
Editing layers and layer folders
Organizing layers and layer folders
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Topic 7 Working with text

Topic Objectives
Creating and editing text fields
Setting text attributes
Setting kerning and character position
Setting alignment, margins, indents, and line spacing

Text anti-aliasing
Using device fonts
Break text apart
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Topic 8 Creating animation

Topic Objectives
Animation basics
Creating keyframes
Frame rates
Editing frames and keyframes in the Timeline
About tweened animation

Motion tweening
Shape tweening
Tweening motion along a path
Masking layers
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Topic 9 ActionScript Basics

Topic Objectives
About ActionScript
The Actions panel
Using Script Assist to write ActionScript
Adding actions to the Timeline
Creating button symbols

Enabling, editing, and testing buttons
Using invisible buttons
Frame labels
Adding Actions to Buttons
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Topic 10 Using Movie Clips

Topic Objectives
About nested movie clips
Loading movie clips into empty movie clips

Loading images into movie clips
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Topic 11 Sound and Video

Topic Objectives
About sounds and Flash
Importing sounds
Adding a sound to the Timeline
Adding a sound to a button
Editing a sound
Compressing a sound for export
Tips for exporting sound in Flash documents

About video features in Flash
Importing Flash Video (FLV) files into the Library
Embedding video in a SWF file
About the FLVPlayback component
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Topic 12 Publishing and Optimizing

Topic Objectives
Optimizing Flash documents before publishing
Optimizing colours
Publishing Flash content
Setting SWF publish options

Setting HTML publish options
Setting other publish options
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Appendix A: Index