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Macromedia Flash

Flash is animation software used to create interactive content for display on web pages. It uses vector graphics which can scale to any size without loss of quality. Flash has tools like a stage, timeline, and layers that allow creating and coordinating animations and combining different elements. The zoom tool and zooms panel control the view level in the work area.

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Macromedia Flash

Flash is animation software used to create interactive content for display on web pages. It uses vector graphics which can scale to any size without loss of quality. Flash has tools like a stage, timeline, and layers that allow creating and coordinating animations and combining different elements. The zoom tool and zooms panel control the view level in the work area.

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Macromedia Flash

What is Animation?

 Animation is a rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D


artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.
 It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of
persistence of vision.
 Flash enables you to create interactive "movies" on the Web .
 Flash uses vector graphics, which means that the graphics can be
scaled to any size without losing clarity/quality.
 Flash does not require programming skills and is easy to learn.
What is Flash?

  Flash is a vector animation software, originally designed to create


animations for display on web pages. Vector graphics are ideal for the
web because they are so lightweight.
 Flash is a multimedia graphics program specially for use on the Web .
Flash − Work Environment
Menu Bar
Submenus you can access to:
File: It allows creating, opening and saving archives. It also enables to configure the
printing pages, print them, etc..
Edit: It is a classic menu that allows you to Cut, Copy, Paste… objects or as well
images or frames; it also allows you to customize some of the most common options
of the program
View: Apart from, typical Zooms, it allows you to move the frames and scenes. It also
includes the possibility to create a grid and some guides. 
Insert: It permits you to insert objects into the movie, as well as new frames, layers,
actions, scenes…
Menu
Bar(cont..)
Submenus you can access to:

Modify: The option Transform permits one to modify the graphics


existing in the movie.
Text: Its contents affect the edition of text. It will be further handled in
more details
Commands: Allows administrating the Commands that we had saved in
our animation, to obtain other news from the Macromedia page or execute
what we already have.
Menu
Bar(cont..)
Submenus you can access to:

Window: In addition to the classical options of distributing the windows,


this menu includes shortcuts to ALL the Panels.
Help: From here we can access to all the help that Macromedia offers to
us, from the current manual up to the Action Script, going through
tutorials, guided lections etc…
Control: From here you modify the properties of the movie
reproduction Play, Rewind, Test Movie ..
PANELS

Floating, dockable panels, which enable you to modify


various elements in the movie and configure the Flash
authoring environment to best suit your workflow . 
Stage

The Stage is where you compose the content for


individual frames in the movie, drawing artwork on it
directly or arranging imported artwork.
Timeline

Timeline is where you coordinate the timing of the


animation and assemble the artwork on separate layers.
The Timeline displays each frame in the movie.
Layer

Layers act like stacked sheets of transparent acetate,


keeping artwork separate so you can combine different
elements into a cohesive visual image.
Zoom Tool

The Zoom Tool  is used to approach or move away the object view, allowing to
include more or less zone of the Work Area. Every time we click in the Zoom Tool
we duplicate the percentage indicated in the Zooms Panel.

 Zooms Panel: It is a set of direct accesses to the View's submenus. They are very


useful and help to accelerate the work when they are used correctly.
In order to know more about the Zooms visit our Basic Page 

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