Flash CS3 for Dummies

Sections

Introduction
About This Book
How to Use This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Conventions Used in This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Part I: A Blast of Flash
Part II: 1,000 Pictures and 1,000 Words
Part III: Getting Symbolic
Part IV: Total Flash-o-Rama
Part V: The Movie and the Web
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Part VII: Appendixes
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Chapter 1
Discovering Flash
Understanding What You Can Create with Flash CS3
Determining When Not to Use Flash CS3
Getting the Right Start
Starting Flash on a PC
Starting Flash on a Mac
Creating a new movie
Opening an existing movie
Taking a Look Around
Tooling around the toolbars
Using panels
Discovering the Flash menus
Customizing the workspace
Staging your movies
Following a timeline
Getting Help in a Flash
Help’s multiple manuals
Finding more help on the Web
Try It; You’ll Like It
Conceiving your first animation
Creating flashy drawings
Making graphics move
Publishing your first animation for posterity
Exiting Flash
Looking at the Big Picture
Setting the Stage
Choosing the Stage color
Specifying the frame rate
Setting the Stage size and adding metadata
Grabbing a Graphic
Understanding vectors and bitmaps
Finding graphics
Going to the Library
Using a Template
Printing Your Movie
Sharpening Your Pencil
Setting the Pencil modifier
Setting the stroke type
Setting the color
Creating Shapely Shapes
Line up
Be square
Be an egg
Go for the stars
Mixing and Matching Shapes
Cutting up shapes
Placing objects on top of each other
Keeping Objects Safe and Secure
Using the object-drawing model
Getting primitive
Creating Curves with the Pen
Drawing straight lines
Drawing curves
Getting Artistic with the Brush
Brush mode modifier
Brush Size drop-down list
Brush Shape drop-down list
Pressure and Tilt modifiers
Brush smoothing
Pouring on the Paint
Strokes, Ink
A Rainbow of Colors
Solid citizens
Gradient colors
Bitmap fills
Locking a fill
Drawing Precisely
The ruler rules
Using guides
Working with the grid
Snapping turtle
Pixel, pixel on the wall
The Import Business — Using Outside Graphics
Importing graphics
Using imported graphics
Selecting objects
Selecting Objects
Selecting with the Selection tool
Lassoing your objects
Selecting everything in one fell swoop
Moving, Copying, and Deleting
Movin’ on down the road
Aligning objects with the Align panel
Copying objects
Makin’ objects go away
Making Shapes More Shapely
Reshaping shapes and outlines
Using the Subselect tool
Adjusting curves with the Pen tool
Freely transforming and distorting shapes
Straightening lines and curving curves
Modifying line endings
Optimizing curves
Expanding and contracting filled shapes
Softening edges
Converting lines to fills
Transforming Fills
Transferring Properties
Finding and Replacing Objects
Transforming Objects
’Round and ’round and ’round we rotate
Getting skewy
Flippety, floppety
Combining Objects
Getting Grouped
Changing the Transformation Point
Breaking Apart Objects
Establishing Order on the Stage
Undoing, Redoing, and Reusing
Undoing actions
Redoing actions
Using object-level undo and redo
Reusing actions with the History panel
Presenting Your Text
Creating text
Editing text
Setting character attributes
Hyperlinking text
Getting the best text appearance
Setting up paragraph formats
Creating input and dynamic text
Creating Cool Text Effects
Creating Layers
Using layers
Changing layer states
Getting Those Layers Right
Deleting layers
Copying layers
Renaming layers
Reordering layers
Organizing layers
Modifying layer properties
Creating Guide Layers
Opening Windows with Mask Layers
Creating a mask layer
Editing mask layers
Animating mask layers
Understanding Symbol Types
Using graphic symbols
Using movie clip symbols
Using button symbols
Using font symbols
Creating Symbols
Creating symbols from existing objects
Creating empty symbols
Converting an animation to a movie clip symbol
Creating a symbol by duplicating a symbol
Modifying Symbols
Changing the properties of a symbol
Editing symbols
Using Symbols from Other Movies
Using the Flash Library
Using the Flash For Dummies Library
Working with Instances, for Instance
Inserting instances
Editing instances
Making simple buttons
Creating Simple Buttons
Understanding button states
Making a basic button
Putting Buttons to the Test
Creating Complex Buttons
Adding a sound to a button
Adding a movie clip to a button
Adding an action for a button
Who Framed the Animation?
Preparing to Animate
Master of the Timeline
Turtle or hare?
Creating Animations Instantly with Timeline Effects
Animating with Keyframes
Frame after frame after frame
Stillness in the night
The Animation Tween
From here to there — motion tweening
Tweening shapes
Editing Animation
Adding labels and comments
Selecting frames
Copying and pasting frames
Copying and pasting motion
Moving frames
Adding frames
Deleting frames
Turning keyframes back into regular frames
Reversing your animation
Changing speed
Changing the animation settings
Using onion skins
Moving everything around the Stage at once
Making the Scene
Breaking your movie into scenes
Manipulating that scene
Understanding ActionScript
Making objects work for you
Method acting
Adding ActionScript to Frames
Using ActionScript with Buttons
Using ActionScript with Movie Clips
Creating animated masks with movie clips
Dragging movie clips
Exploring ActionScript Further
Programming constructs
Making comments
External scripting
Discovering more about ActionScript
Acquiring Amazing Audio
Importing sounds
Placing sounds into a movie
Editing Sounds
Deleting parts of a sound
Changing the volume
Managing Sound
Video Magic
Four ways to use video in Flash
Preparing to embed video in Flash
Embedding and editing a video
Streaming a video
Adding the Power of Components
Getting ready to work with components
Using RadioButtons in a Flash movie
Using CheckBoxes in a Flash movie
Using ComboBoxes in a Flash movie
Using Lists in a Flash movie
Creating a Preloader
Creating an Entire Web Site with Flash
Creating navigation with navigateToURL
Using the Timeline to store Web content
Testing for the Flash Player
Detecting the Flash Player version
Creating alternative sites
Using the Movie Explorer
Making Your Site More Accessible
Optimizing Movies for Fast Download
Simplifying artwork
Optimizing text
Compressing sound
Animating efficiently
Testing Movies
Using the Test Movie command
Testing a movie in a Web browser
Saving Your Work in Flash 8 Format
Publishing Flash Movies
Publishing to SWF
Publishing to HTML
Understanding the HTML code for a movie
Specifying Flash Player detection and other HTML settings
Publishing to Other Formats
Creating PNG graphic files
Creating self-playing movies
Using Publish Profiles
Creating a publish profile
Duplicating or renaming a publish profile
Modifying a publish profile
Deleting a publish profile
Exporting and importing publish profiles
Using Publish Preview
Posting Your Movie to Your Web Site
Exporting Movies and Images
Creating Printable Movies
Preparing your movie for printing
Specifying printable frames
Specifying the print area
Printing movies from the Flash Player
How do I combine two Flash movies?
How Do I Combine Two Flash Movies?
Why Is Motion Tweening Not Working?
How Can I Sync Sound with Motion?
What Is the Best Way to Import Bitmaps?
How Do I Rescale My Movie’s Size?
What Are the Best Tips for Creating Movies?
Can Flash Do 3-D?
How Do I Center a Flash Movie in a Web Page?
What Are the Size Limits for a Flash Movie?
How Do I Dynamically Load Music from the Web?
Check out award-winning movies
Check Out Award-Winning Movies
Look on the Flash Web Pages
Visit Our Site
Take a Course
Join a Flash Discussion Group
Check Out Flash Resource Sites
Check Out Sites That Use Flash
Attend a Flash Conference
Collect Flash Movies
Reuse Your Best Stuff
Hillman Curtis
Hillman Curtis
Anthony Eden
Chris Georgenes
Ben Hantoot
Seb Lee-Delisle
Eric Natzke
Keith Peters
Micaël Reynaud
Grant Skinner
Jared Tarbell
Installing Flash
Installing Flash onto a PC from a DVD
Installing Flash by downloading it to your PC
Installing Flash onto a Mac from a DVD
Installing Flash by downloading it to your Mac
Setting Your Preferences
General category
ActionScript category
Auto Format category
Clipboard category
Drawing category
Text category
Warnings category
PSD File Importer category
AI File Importer category
Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
The Tools Panel
The Property Inspector Gadget
Property inspector with no selection
Property inspector with a shape selected
Property inspector with keyframe selected
Property inspector with a symbol instance selected
The Align Panel
The Color Panel
The Swatches Panel
The Info Panel
The Scene Panel
The Transform Panel
The Actions Panel
The Movie Explorer Panel
The Output Panel
The Accessibility Panel
The Components Panel
The Component Inspector Panel
The History Panel
The History panel
The Strings Panel
Your Own Personal Library of Vector Graphics
Flash Movies Galore
Bonus Chapter
Index

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