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Create Animation Using Flash Professional ................

A new document opens.

2 Click the Rectangle tool

( ).

Note: You can press and hold
your mouse button on the tool to
see a menu of other shape tools.

3 On the Properties panel, click

Fill Color.

4 Select a color.

5 Click and drag on the stage

to create the shape.

1 From the Flash Welcome

screen, click ActionScript

3.0.

Create Animation Using Flash Professional

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lash has for years been the de facto standard for Web animation. Advertising, games, and

video are just a few of its many uses. Although Adobe currently makes several tools that can

create Flash-based content, Flash Professional CS5 is the one most familiar and easiest to learn

for designers. Its interface closely matches that of other tools in Adobe’s Creative Suite. To create

simple animation, you begin by drawing shapes on the stage, using tools similar to those found in

Illustrator. Then, you convert those shapes to symbols — reusable objects that can be animated.

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