Beginner's Guide to Adobe Flash

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This book is a student project, created by students of an introduction to Flash class. It will act as a document that presents instructions on how to use Adobe Flash Professional from the perspective of people learning how to use it themselves.

This books aims to introduce Flash Professional to those with no prior experience with Flash.

Table of Contents

1. Why Use Flash?
2. Shortcuts
3. Interface
   1. Document Window
   2. Timeline Window
   3. Property Inspector
   4. Tool Bar
   5. Panels
4. Tools
   1. Rectangle and Oval
   2. Pencil
   3. Brush
   4. Pen
5. Color
   1. Color Mixer
   2. Color Swatches
   3. Gradients
6. Animation
   1. Shape Tweens
   2. Motion Tweens
7. Symbols
   1. Graphic
   2. Button
   3. Movie Clip
   4. Making
   5. Using
8. Text
   1. Static
   2. Dynamic
   3. Input
   4. Embedding Fonts
9. Filters and Blend Modes
   1. Adding Filters
   2. Saving Presets and Combining Filters
   3. Blend Modes
   4. Dimensional Shadows
   5. Animating Filters with Motion Tweens
   6. Custom Easing
   7. Controlling Color
   8. Adjusting Color Filters
   9. Color Properties
   10. Layering Graphics
   11. Applying Compound Blend Modes
   12. Creating an Animated Alpha Blend
10. Bitmaps
    1. When to use Bitmaps Instead of Vectors
    2. Importing
    3. Caching
11. Sound
    1. Importing
    2. On the Timeline
    3. Stream and Event
12. Video
    1. Supported Codecs
    2. Importing
    3. Using Flash Video Encoder
    4. Using The FLVPlayback Component
    5. Exporting
13. Interactivity
    1. ActionScript
    2. Events and Handlers
    3. Timeline Control
14. Components
    1. Data
    2. Playback
    3. User Interface
15. Publishing
    1. Publish Settings
    2. SWF Files
    3. HTML Files
    4. Projectors