《Starting Up》.pdfVIP

Contents Starting Up About Flash Digital Classroom .1 Prerequisites. . .1 System requirements 1 Starting Adobe Flash CS4 .2 Resetting the Flash workspace .3 Loading lesson ? les .3 Working with the video tutorials . . . .4 L Setting up for viewing the video tutorials .4 A Viewing the video tutorials I with the Adobe Flash Player . . .5 R Additional resources 6 E T Lesson 1: What’s New in Adobe Flash CS4 A Starting up . . . .7 Testing the waters. . .8 M New animation engine . . .8 D Motion Presets .9 E The Motion Editor . 10 T New easing behaviors . . 10 New drawing tools: The Deco H and Spray Brush tools . . 10 G The 3D Rotation and 3D Translation tools . . . . 11 I Inverse Kinematics: The new R Bone and Bind tools . . . . 12 Y New CS4 interface. 13 P O New F4V video format . . 14 C Adobe Media Encoder . . 15 Lesson 2: Flash CS4 Jumpstart Starting up . . 17 What is Flash?. . . . . 18 About Flash Player 20 Flash ? le types . . . . 21 Creating a new document . . . 22 Table of Contents IX Contents Setting up your new document . . . 23 Saving your Flash document . 24 Opening documents . . . 26 The Flash workspace . . . 27 The Stage and work area. . . . . 27 The Flash Tools panel . . . 28 The Property Inspector . 30 Panels and panel groups. . . . . 34 The Timeline . 36 Practicing with the Flash tools . . . . 40 The drawing and selection tools in action. . . . 40 Using gradient and color tools . . . . 43 Animation in action . . . . 46 Getting help . 47 Support forums . . . 48 Moving forward. . . 48 Self study. . . . 48 Review . 49 Lesson 3: Getting Started with the Drawing Tools Starting up . . 51 Drawing in Flash . . 52 Using the Merge Drawing model . . 52 Creating artwork in Merged Drawing mode . . . . 53 Working with Drawing Objects. . . . 55 Putting it all together. . . 57 Using the Line tool 59 Using the Pen tool. 62 Using the Add and Delete Anchor Point tools 64 Using the Combine Objec