Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Digital Classroom -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- 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 -- Setting up for viewing the video tutorials -- Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player -- Hosting Your Flash content and websites -- Additional resources -- 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 -- Getting help -- Support forums -- Moving forward -- Self study -- Review -- 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 andthe Library -- Starting up -- 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 -- 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 -- The project -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 TimelinesWhen you -- 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 -- Lesson 15: 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.