Lynda.com Flash Professional CS6 Essential Training Incl.Exercise Files

This course provides a solid foundation in Adobe Flash Professional CS6 and shows how to create an assortment of Flash content. Author Anastasia McCune explains the different destinations for Flash projects—mobile devices, the desktop, or the web—and where ActionScript fits into it all. She shows how to create a new project, structure document layers and arrange objects on the Timeline, and how to get started drawing basic shapes and incorporate text, images, audio, and video. The course also explains the different types of symbols and tweens in Flash, and how to use them to build and animate content. The final chapters outline the publishing options available for Flash projects, including Adobe AIR.
Topics include:
Choosing a document type
Working with panels and workspaces
Importing bitmap and vector graphics into a project
Understanding the Timeline and frame rate
Defining frames and keyframes
Creating button, graphic, and movie clip symbols
Nesting timelines
Building shape tweens and motion tweens
Defining inverse kinematic (IK) motion
Applying filters, blend modes, and masks
Integrating audio and video
Using ActionScript code snippets
Configuring SWF and HTML publish settings
Publishing with AIR