Contents -- Introduction -- The Goal of the Book -- How to Use This Book -- Mac Versus PC -- Version -- Pro Files -- chapter 1 The Not-So-Boring Animation Intro -- What Are Animations? -- How an Animation Works -- What Is Flash? -- Planning Your Animation -- Your Audience -- The Story Line -- Storyboarding -- Animating -- chapter 2 Taking the Tour -- Navigating the Start Page -- Starting from Scratch -- Opening Files -- Applying Templates -- Taking the Tour -- Disabling the Start Page -- Navigating the Menu Bar -- Using the Timeline -- Navigating the Timeline -- Setting Timeline Options -- The Stage -- Using the Tools Panel -- Using the Property Inspector -- Using Other Panels, Windows, and Inspectors -- Managing the User Interface -- Saving Layouts -- chapter 3 Your First Animation -- Creating Your First Animation -- Setting the Size of the Stage -- Creating and Animating the Ball -- Playing Your Animation -- Getting Around Your Documents -- Adjusting the Zoom Level -- Panning -- Selecting Frames -- Pro File: Eric Blumrich -- chapter 4 Drawing, Selecting, and Importing Objects -- Drawing Objects -- Creating Ovals, Circles, Squares, Rounded Rectangles, Polygons, and Stars -- Drawing with the Pencil Tool -- Drawing with the Brush Tool -- Using the Line Tool -- Using the Pen Tool -- Drawing with the Eraser -- Now You Try -- Adding Text -- Selecting Objects -- Using the Selection Tool -- Using the Lasso Tool -- Using the Subselection Tool -- Selecting Multiple Objects -- Importing Objects -- chapter 5 Transforming and Filling Objects -- Moving Objects -- Free Transforming-a.k.a. Moving, Resizing, Squishing, Stretching, Skewing, and Rotating -- Moving an Object -- Resizing an Object -- Squishing and Stretching an Object -- Skewing an Object -- Rotating an Object -- Reshaping an Object -- Reshaping with Selections.

Reshaping Objects with Other Shapes -- Reshaping with the Subselection Tool -- Resizing and Reshaping with the Property Inspector -- Applying Fills and Outlines -- Selecting Colors -- Applying Colors -- Now You Try -- Using Gradient Fills -- Now You Try -- Transparencies -- Pro File: Evan Spiridellis -- chapter 6 Working with Layers -- Creating and Naming Layers -- Moving Layers -- Exploring Layer Features -- Removing Layers -- Organizing Your Layers in Folders -- Using Guide Layers -- chapter 7 Animation -- Understanding the Timeline -- Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations -- Creating Multiple Keyframes -- Adding, Copying, and Pasting Frames -- Removing and Clearing Frames -- Using Flash's Onion Skin Feature -- Reversing Frames -- Tweening -- Motion Tweening -- Shape Tweening -- Timing -- Pro File: David Brown -- Pro File: Joe Shields -- chapter 8 Putting Your Body in Motion -- Creating the Character -- Animating the Character -- Creating the Background -- Animating the Background -- Now You Try -- chapter 9 Tunes for Your 'Toons -- Importing Sounds and Music -- Inserting Sounds -- Creating Background Music -- Recording Dialogue -- Positioning Audio -- Now You Try -- Adding Sound Effects -- Creating Custom Effects -- Configuring Buttons for Sound -- Compressing Your Sound -- chapter 10 Cool Flash Effects -- Ghost Typing -- Now You Try -- Fading In and Out -- Now You Try -- Applying an Extreme Close-Up -- Masking -- Creating a Magnifying Glass Effect -- Changing the Color Bar -- Creating Dancing Cartoon Lines -- Tossing Rocks in a Pond -- Now You Try -- Pro File: Dermot O' Connor -- chapter 11 Help If You Need It -- Using Flash's Internal Help -- Searching -- Browsing -- Using Flash's Online Help -- Finding More Help Online -- Mining Flash Books and Videos -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q.

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