Flash CS5.5 Professional

Flash CS5.5 ProfessionalBackground Information

Adobe

April 1996 – FutureSplash AnimatorNovember 1996 – 2007 – Macromedia Flash ver 1 to 0October 2008 – Adobe Flash CS4 Professional (version 10)2010 - CS5 was released

Currently CS6 is out but not very different

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Flash is a set of multimedia technologies (text, audio, animation, video, interactivity)

Popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page components to integrate video into

web pages, and to develop rich Internet Applications

Flash can manipulate vector and raster graphics and supports bi-directional streaming of audio

and video. It contains a scripting language called ActionScript.

Flash files in the SWF format (Flash movies) may be an object

of a web page or played on a standalone Flash Player.

Saving in Flash creates a “.fla”When finished, export as a “.swf”

ToolsTimeline – frames, layers, playhead

StageWorkspace

Property Inspector

Add layer, folder, trash a layer

Some samples . . . Then get started together!

Open FlashCreate a new Flash document