Studying workspace

Adobe Flash CS3 workspace is user friendly and intuitive, but it is good to know details and some tricks that can speed up Your animation creating process.

General Flash workflow
To build a Flash application, you typically perform some basic steps like: planing Your application, adding media, arranging them, applying some special behaviors and then testing and publishing.

Workspace overview
This tutorial will give You base understanding of most Adobe Flash CS3 Professional workspace features. Manage panels, add some useful and hide unused, drag and drop them to get workspace which suits You the best.

Stage and Tools panel
Every thing You draw, animate or arrange in Your animation is placed on stage. Variety of tools allows You to modify stage in a way You wish. By reading this article You will learn how to use stage in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional.

Setting preferences
When You really want to work with flash You need to personalize it. Setting preferences will help customize it to behave in way You demand.

The Timeline
Timeline is a key workspace element to understand in Flash. It allows You to manage what things and how thing happen in time. All about the Adobe Flash timeline You need to know is in this article.

Flash authoring panels
Authoring panels in example Library or Actions panel even they are very different they look the same. In this article You will read about most important Adobe Flash CS3 panels.

Accessibility in the Flash workspace
Accessibility support provides keyboard shortcuts for navigating and using interface controls, including panels, the Property inspector, dialog boxes, the Stage, and objects on the Stage, so that you can work with these interface elements without using the mouse.

Undo, redo, and history
Making mistakes is a natural part of development. We learn on own mistakes. Adobe Flash CS3 allow us to undo and redo last operations so we could correct our mistake.

Automating tasks with the Commands menu
If Your work need to perform the same operations on different objects You will probably like this new Adobe Flash CS3 feature. Now You can repeat the same task, by creating a command and applying it any time You need.