Adobe Flash CS3: The Professional Portfolio- P7: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 | 6- Create new layers named Nose Cone Windows and Exhaust Vent . Drag these layers along with the existing Body layer into the new Body Parts layer folder. rocket working a U TaiRns d Bottom An d SdeRns CL-- d Top fins D Body Parts xl Body d FJose Cone d Exhaust Vent Windows d Rocket Sketch a Each of the folders contains separate layers which will contain individual components. 7. Click the Arrow icon to the immediate left of the Body Parts layer folder to collapse the folder. Once collapsed you see only the layer folder you do not see the individual layers it contains. Layers in collapsed folders are still visible on the stage but not in the list of layers. Collapsing folders makes it much easier to organize complex Flash documents. Note You see how layers and layer folders can assist you in organizing complex drawings and animations into logical easy-to-recognize component categories and at the same time allow you to keep all the components separate. rocfcetjworiäng I__ Click this arrow to collapse the Body Parts folder and hide for now the individual body part layers. Q. Save the file and continue to the next stage of the project. Stye 1 Drawing in Flash A primitive shape is a simple object such as a square circle oval rectangle or polygon. A polygon is any shape with least three sides and angles this definition naturally includes triangles. Other shapes include freeform shapes similar to polygons but without straight sides and recognizable objects such as balloons stars twirls cones with rounded bottoms spirals and a host of others. A shape displays two primary attributes a fill and a stroke. The fill is the color contained within a shape and the stroke is the line that defines the outside border. To change the fill and stroke of an object use the pop-up Color Swatch panel that appears when you click and hold the Stroke or Fill button at the bottom of the Tools panel. Click to reset the colors to a black stroke and white fill. Click and hold this
