Adobe Flash CS3: The Professional Portfolio- P4:Now you can easily create web-ready images and animations within the familiar Adobe environment. With the recent acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe has added Flash to its suite of creative products, thus solidifying its position as the world's leading developer of graphic and visual communications tools. The Against The Clock Portfolio Series Flash title ensures that you'll learn everything you need to complete any job that requires Flash skills | WIcnus Like most applications Flash has a menu bar across the top of the workspace eleven menus provide access to virtually all of the available options. Macintosh users have two extra menus. The Apple menu provides access to system-specific commands. The Flash menu follows the Macintosh system-standard format introduced in OS X for all applications this menu controls basic application operations such as About Hide Preferences and Quit Flash. If a menu command isn t available for a specific image or selection it appears grayed out such as the Show Shape Hints option of the View menu shown right . Some menu commands can be accessed using a keyboard shortcut. If a menu command has an associated shortcut it is listed to the right of the specific command such as the Zoom In command . Many of the commands in Flash are toggles which means they re either on or off when a toggle command shows a checkmark such as the Rulers option that option is visible or active. Some toggle commands use the Show Hide indicator in the command name such as the Show Tab Order command when these options are already showing the menu command changes to say Hide command name such as the Hide Edges command . JJTüert Modfy Text Commands Goto Zoom In Zoom Out Magnification Ctrf ctrh- Preview Mode Pasteboard Ctri Shft W Rulers Ctrf Ak Shit R Grid Guides Snapping HkJe Edges Ctrl H Show Tab Order TH TlM llN _ The Flash Timeline is one of the most important components of the Flash interface it represents the passing of time broken into individual segments called frames. You ll use the Timeline and its companion layers extensively as you complete the projects in this book. Each layer on the Timeline provides a space in time on which you can place static graphics animations sounds or even videos that either play in the background or are triggered by events happening on other levels on the Timeline. Each layer runs horizontally across the .
