Tools, stage and Timeline

Reading this articles will give You fundamental knowledge of creating Flash animations. You will learn how to use drawing tools, how to change colors and gradients, and then You may want to organize Your graphics into symbols.

Drawing
The drawing tools in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional let you create and modify shapes for the artwork in your documents.
Before you draw and paint in Flash, it is important to understand how Adobe Flash CS3 Professional creates artwork, how drawing tools work, and how drawing, painting, and modifying shapes can affect other shapes on the same layer.

Color, strokes, and fills
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional includes many tools for creating your own artwork and for controlling the colors, strokes, and fills of your drawings. With Flash you can control and manipulate these aspects of your artwork both during and after its creation.

Graphic objects
In Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, you can work with several different kinds of graphic objects. Each kind has its own advantages and disadvantages. By understanding the capabilities of the different object types, you can make good decisions about which types of objects to use in your work.

Symbols, instances, and library assets
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional allows you to import and create many kinds of assets to populate your Flash documents. These assets are managed in Flash as symbols, instances, and library assets. Understanding how the types of assets work together lets you make good choices about how and when to use them, and anticipate the best design options for your work.

Creating animation
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional provides several ways to create animation and special effects; Timeline effects, tweened animation, changing the contents of successive frames in the Timeline, and frame-by-frame animation all provide you with different possibilities to create engaging, animated content.

Special effects
Special effects include filters, which let you add visual effects to text, buttons, and movie clips; and blend modes, which let you create composite images. All of this features are available in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional.

Text tool
Articles in this category will show You the various ways that text can be incorporated into your Adobe Flash CS3 Professional documents. You will also learn about Flash Text Anti-Aliasing and substituting missing fonts.

Creating multilanguage text
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional provides several features that enhance the work flow for authoring multiple language Unicode-based applications. By reading articles in this category You will learn how to engineer a multilanguage Flash application.

Working with sound
You can use sound in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional in several different ways to make your work more interesting and involving. You can import sounds and edit them after they are imported. You can attach sounds to different kinds of objects and trigger them in different ways, depending on your desired effect.

Working with video
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional is a powerful tool for incorporating video footage into web-based presentations. Flash Video offers technological and creative benefits that let you fuse video together with data, graphics, sound, and interactive control. Flash Video lets you easily put video on a web page in a format that almost anyone can view.