Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Digital Classroom by Gerantabee, Fred -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Starting Up

About the Flash Professional CS6 Digital Classroom Prerequisites

System requirements

Starting Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Resetting the Flash workspace Loading lesson files Working with the video tutorials Hosting Your Flash content and websites Additional resources

Training from the Authors Book series Seminars and conferences Resources for educators

Lesson 1: Flash CS6 Jumpstart

Starting up What is Flash?

About Flash Player

Flash file types Creating a new document

Setting up your new document Saving your Flash document Opening documents

The Flash workspace

The Stage and work area The Flash Tools panel The Property Inspector Panels and panel groups The Timeline

Practicing with the Flash tools

The drawing and selection tools in action Using gradient and color tools Animation in action

Getting help

Support forums

Moving forward Self study Review

Answers

Lesson 2: Getting Started with the Drawing Tools

Starting up Drawing in Flash

Using the Merge Drawing mode Creating artwork in Merged Drawing mode Working with Drawing Objects

Putting it all together

Using the Line tool

Using the Pen tool

Using the Add and Delete Anchor Point tools

Using the Combine Objects menu Using the Primitive tools (Smart Shapes)

Using the Oval Primitive tool The Rectangle Primitive tool

Adding text to your artwork

Flash Text: TLF & Classic Text Working with Threaded and Multi-Column Text Adding filters

Working with colors

Getting set up Creating gradients Using opacity with gradient colors Creating custom colors Saving a custom color set

Organizing and layering graphics

Working with layers Arranging, locking, and hiding layers Creating layer folders

Transforming graphics

The Transform menu and Free Transform tool The Transform panel Transforming gradients

Self study Review

Lesson 3: Using Symbols and the Library

Starting up

The project

What are symbols? A look at the Library panel Creating symbols

Converting a graphic to a symbol Creating blank symbols

Building artwork with symbol instances

Positioning and snapping in symbol instances Editing and duplicating symbols Editing symbols in place Modifying individual symbol instances Modifying instance color Fine-tuning your background Duplicating symbols

Adding graphics and text to your banner Swapping symbols Managing the Library

Organizing symbols with folders The Move To command Deleting items from the library Controlling library views

Wrapping up Self study Review

Lesson 4: Advanced Tools

Starting up Working with gradients

Adjusting gradients with the Gradient Transform tool

Flash CS6 tools for advanced drawing

Spraying symbols Masking Introducing the Deco tool

Advanced Deco tool techniques

The Deco Tool’s new options

Introduction to IK tools Self study Review

Lesson 5: Creating Basic Animation

Starting up Introducing keyframes and the Timeline

Layers Frames and keyframes

Building animation: Enter the tween

Tween layers and automatic keyframing

Tweening multiple objects

Previewing animation with Test Movie Moving and transforming tween paths

Incorporating color effects and scaling Introducing the Motion Editor

Modifying the animation using the Motion Editor Tweening rotation

Controlling animation paths Where did Motion Guide layers go?

What happens to my existing Flash files that use Motion Guide layers? How do I create a motion guide if I still want to?

Morphing graphics and colors with shape tweens

Shape tween basics

Legacy techniques: Creating classic tweens

Classic tween rules Adding color effects and scaling to a classic tween

(Re)creating motion guides for classic tweens

Troubleshooting Motion Guides

Adjusting animation with onion skinning Looking ahead Self study Review

Lesson 6: Advanced Animation

Starting up Copying, pasting, and saving animation

Using Copy and Paste Motion Creating Motion Presets

Applying Advanced Easing Behavior Animating Masks Creating Animation with IK Poses Sequencing Animation

Shifting, Moving, and Extending Tween Spans

Rendering and Animating in 3D

The 3D Rotation tool The 3D Translation tool Fine-Tuning tweens with the Motion Editor

Adding shape tweens and shape hints

Creating Shape Hints

Self study Review

Lesson 7: Customizing Your Workflow

Starting up Customizing workspace layouts

Opening the completed file

Working with panels

Collapsing and storing panels

Managing workspaces Setting preferences Keyboard shortcuts Visual aids for alignment

Rulers and guides Guide layers

Advanced alignment

Refining your aligned objects

Self study Review

Answers

Lesson 8: Working with Imported Files

Starting up Import formats Importing still images

Viewing the completed lesson file Import a bitmap image

Adding text

Swapping out an imported file

Modifying imported artwork

Updating imported files

Importing Photoshop files

Importing a layered Photoshop file

Importing Illustrator artwork

Animating the bat

Self study Review

Lesson 9: Introducing ActionScript

Starting up

Exploring the lesson file

What is ActionScript?

Which version of ActionScript should you use?

Where Do I Place ActionScript?

The Code Snippets Panel An important note about Publish settings

The Actions panel at work

Standard (default) script editing mode Using Script Assist Adding and removing actions

Adding actions to frames with the Code Snippets Panel

Adding a stop() action Placing a goto action using the Actions Panel

Controlling Movie Clip Timelines Functions Wrapping up Self study Review

Lesson 10: Creating Navigation Controls

Starting up Working with button symbols

Building buttons Adding text to a button Duplicating and modifying buttons Creating text-based buttons

Creating frame labels for ActionScript Adding ActionScript: Events and event handlers

Understanding events Responding to events with event handlers Tying it all together with event listeners Linking buttons to specific frames Adding an event listener to a button

Linking buttons to a website

Introducing navigateToURL() and URLRequest()

Self study Review

Lesson 11: Adding Sound to Your Movies

Starting up

The project

Preparing sound files for Flash

Sample rate and bit depth Editing your audio Mono or stereo Audio file formats

Importing sounds Placing sounds on the Timeline

Adding sound to your slide show project Adding the remaining narration

Adding sound effects to buttons

Placing Event sounds on button frames

Editing sounds

Trimming sound

Controlling sounds

Repeating and looping sounds Looping sounds Introducing the SoundMixer and stopAll()

More sync menu controls: stop and start

Start sounds Stop sounds

Sound publishing options Wrapping up Self study Review

Lesson 12: Introducing Movie Clips

Starting up About movie clips Creating movie clips

Laying the foundation: Your first movie clip Previewing movie clip animation from the main Timeline Creating the landing gear Combining movie clips and main Timeline animation

Nesting movie clips Adding ActionScript to movie clip Timelines

Controlling movie clip playback Adding some variation to the propellers

Tweening movie clips Adding a second tween Combining movie clips for complex animation Adding filter effects to movie clips

Using the Filters panel Creating a filter effect

Wrapping up Self study Review

Lesson 13: Working with Video

Starting up Video in Flash: formats and fundamentals Understanding video

Embedded versus linked video Flash Video formats: FLV and F4V Understanding codecs Understanding Adobe Media Encoder CS6 Converting video with the Adobe Media Encoder

Working with embedded video

Adding embedded video to the Timeline Building controls for embedded video

The Bandwidth Profiler Working with linked video

Adding cue points in the Adobe Media Encoder Adding linked video to the Timeline Live Preview Adding Cue Points in the Property Inspector Working with the FLVPlayback component

Self study Review

Lesson 14: Delivering Your Final Movie

Starting up The publishing process Publishing to the Web

Customizing the Publish settings

Publishing for the Desktop with Adobe AIR

About Digital Certificates

Installing Your New AIR Application Publishing for Mobile Devices

Publishing for iOS

Publishing for Android OS Using Export Movie

New: Export PNG Sequence

An overview of FTP Self study Review

What’s New in Adobe Flash CS6?

Starting up Expanded Publishing and Support for iOS and Android Devices A little ruler goes a long way: Integrated Ruler on TLF text boxes New AIR and Mobile Code Snippets Convenience Features: Auto-Save and File Recovery plus Scale Content with Stage PNG Sequence Export Bitmap Editing with Adobe Photoshop CS6

About the Authors Acknowledgments Credits

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