Flash is a multimedia software used to create animations and interactive content for websites, presentations, and games. It is compatible with all major browsers. To start Flash, you open the program from the Start menu or search programs. The Flash workspace includes tools like the stage, timeline, and property inspector used to build and edit animations and content. Common drawing tools allow creating basic shapes and custom drawing. Selection tools help edit and modify content on the stage.
Flash is a multimedia software used to create animations and interactive content for websites, presentations, and games. It is compatible with all major browsers. To start Flash, you open the program from the Start menu or search programs. The Flash workspace includes tools like the stage, timeline, and property inspector used to build and edit animations and content. Common drawing tools allow creating basic shapes and custom drawing. Selection tools help edit and modify content on the stage.
Flash is a multimedia software used to create animations and interactive content for websites, presentations, and games. It is compatible with all major browsers. To start Flash, you open the program from the Start menu or search programs. The Flash workspace includes tools like the stage, timeline, and property inspector used to build and edit animations and content. Common drawing tools allow creating basic shapes and custom drawing. Selection tools help edit and modify content on the stage.
Flash is a multimedia software used to create animations and interactive content for websites, presentations, and games. It is compatible with all major browsers. To start Flash, you open the program from the Start menu or search programs. The Flash workspace includes tools like the stage, timeline, and property inspector used to build and edit animations and content. Common drawing tools allow creating basic shapes and custom drawing. Selection tools help edit and modify content on the stage.
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What is Flash?
Flash, also known as Adobe Flash is a multimedia graphic software that is
used to create animations. The animations are made for so many purposes, for example, movies, games, desktop presentations, web applications, etc. Flash is compatible with all web browsers and is one of the most popular technologies on the internet.
How to start Flash?
In order to start Flash, these steps are required: Click on the Start button on the computer. Select or search for Programs on the sub-menu. In the Programs section, click on the Macromedia section. Now select Macromedia Flash 8.
Macromedia Flash is a program that creates
interactive, and animated media such as motion graphics, videos, presentations and websites. You can control an object’s actions and behaviors using the Behavior panel and the Timeline.
The Flash workspace
The Flash CS6 workspace includes a variety of tools and other components that you work with to create Flash applications.
1. Flash Window Components The Flash window is divided into four main components. They are 1. Stage and Pasteboard 2. Timeline 3. Tools panel 4. Property Inspector
The Stage and Pasteboard (work area)
The white rectangle area in the middle of your workspace is called the Stage. All the animations, objects and scenes for a Flash movie are created, edited, placed and played back in the stage
The Timeline The timeline is one of the most important components of Flash. It is located below the Stage. It is used to specify of each element’s appearance and animation. The Timeline also contains Frames and Layers. Flash movies measure time in frames. Frames are the discrete, small slices of time. You can change the content on the Flash Stage for different frames Property Inspector The Property Inspector appears on the right side of your Flash workspace by default. It is grouped with the Library panel. It displays properties and options for objects selected on the Stage, and also allows you to modify them. The object can be text, an image, a line, or any other shape.
Drawing mode provides more rigid control over
artwork created on the Stage. Much like drawing shapes in Illustrator CC, shapes drawn in this mode group their stroke and fill together to avoid separation, and so partial selections are prevented. Drawing Objects give you the ability to stack and arrange shapes within a single layer, providing a deeper level of ordering amongst multiple pieces of artwork.
The Stage is the rectangular area where you place
graphic content when creating Animate documents. The Stage in the authoring environment represents the rectangular space in Flash Player or in a web browser window where your document appears during playback To change the view of the Stage as you work, zoom in and out. To help you position items on the Stage, you can use the grid, guides, and rulers. To scale the Stage so that it fits completely in the application window, select View > Magnification > Fit in Window. To crop the content that flows outside the stage, click the Clip the Content Outside Stage icon . To show the contents of the current frame, select View > Magnification > Show All, or select Show All from the Zoom control at the upper-right side of the application window. If the scene is empty, the entire Stage appears. To show the entire Stage, select View > Magnification > Show Frame or select Show Frame from the Zoom control at the upper-right corner of the document window. To show the workspace surrounding the Stage, or to view elements in a scene that are partly or outside of the Stage area, select View > Pasteboard. The pasteboard appears in light gray.
Drawing Shapes with the Rectangle and Oval Tool
The Flash Tools panel includes several tools for quickly creating simple geometric vector shapes. They are easy to use; you just click and drag on the Stage to create the shapes. The Rectangle tool creates rectangles with square or rounded corners. The Oval tool creates circular shapes such as ovals and circles. These shapes can be comprised of Strokes, which are lines that surround and define the shape, Fills, which are a color or texture inside the shape, or both. Draw with the Oval Tool 1.Click the Oval or Oval Primitive tool on the Tools panel. 2.Select a Stroke and Fill Color from the Colors area of the Tools panel. 3.Click and drag on the Stage, and then release the mouse.
Draw with the Rectangle Tool
1.Click the Rectangle or Rectangle Primitive tool on the Tools panel. 2. 3.Select a Stroke and Fill color from the Colors area of the Tools panel. 4.Click and drag on the Stage, and then release the mouse. Home > Articles > Graphics & Web Design > Dreamweaver & Flash
Learn More Buy Using the Polystar Tool Working in much the same way as the Oval and Rectangle tools, the new Polystar tool allows you to easily create complex vector shapes. You can use this tool to create polygons and stars with up to 32 sides. Choose between creating a polygon or a star. Both styles have characteristics that can be adjusted in the Property Inspector before you draw the shape. Draw a Polygon or Star Shape Click and hold the Rectangle tool in the Toolbar, and then point to PolyStar Tool. The pointer becomes a crosshair that you can drag anywhere on the Stage. Click Options in the Property Inspector. Click the Style popup, and then select Polygon or Star. Enter a value for the number of sides. You can create an object with up to 32 sides. For the Star style, you can specify an additional option for your point size. You can enter a value ranging from .10 to 1.0 points. Click OK.
Drawing with the Line Tool
The Line tool draws perfectly straight lines in any direction you drag your mouse. In Flash, a line is called a stroke and there is a variety of thickness (0-200 pixels), styles, colors, and gradient fills that can be applied to it. You can also create your own line style for specific types of dashed, dotted or artistic lines What does a Pencil Tool do? It resembles a pencil, and when you click and drag with it, it forms a line that pretty much follows where you dragged, just as a real pencil would do. A Pencil tool is to design more free-form paths similar to how we usually draw on paper using a pencil.
Why Use Pencil Tool?
The pencil tool is used for drawing freestyle line
segments. Contrary to the pen tool that makes use of plotted anchor points on a line, you can directly use your mouse or drawing tablet to create any shape you want. This is exceptionally brilliant for designers who want to dive right in and create artwork from scratch. It also works excellently for outlining and tracing existing artwork because of its capability to support variable widths and pressures of stroked paths. The pencil tool provides the best balance between line accuracy and line smoothness. You can choose whether you want to have a smoother line or a more precise line. The paths created using the pencil tool can also be edited easily by tracing over the previous path. This makes it even more effortless to get the exact path you’re looking for. The pencil tool is an excellent alternative to the pen tool in case you’re looking for a simple way to outline, trace, detail, or create new artwork.
The selection tools are what you will use to
select portions of an image to edit. While each of these tools are for selection, they differ in how they go about selecting, Making Selections with the Lasso Tool Use the Lasso tool when you want to select shapes that are too close to shapes you don’t want to select. This tool allows you to draw around the shape, selecting everything contained in the shape you draw The Magic Wand option of the Lasso Tool is used to select ranges of a similar color in a bitmap that has been broken apart. After you select areas of the bitmap, you can change their fill color or delete them g the Magic Wand option of the Lasso Tool. You can restore a broken bitmap by selecting the entire image The Arrow Tool is used to select and move an item or multiple items on the Stage. The Arrow Tool is also used to reshape lines and shapes Use the Arrow Tool to reshape a line or shape by pulling on any unselected line (or shape), or on its end points, curves, or corners. The Arrow Tool is also used to select and move Flash elements, including lines, shapes, groups, symbols, buttons, and other items
