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Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Flash CS5
You don’t need to program Flash to use it, if you are interested only in
graphics and animation.
✓ Additional Resources (adobe.com) brings you to the Adobe.com Search
Community Help page, where you can search through discussion groups
and other support resources.
To search for a term, click the Search button. Then type the term and click
Search. You can then choose from the list of topics.
Finding more help on the Web
Adobe offers support on its Web site. Choose Help➪Flash Support Center.
There, you can search the knowledge base and tutorials for answers to your
questions.
Try It — You’ll Like It
Perhaps by now you’re getting impatient to try out Flash. Getting started is
easy. You collect a few ideas, put together some art, add animation, save
your movie, and publish it. Then you view it in a browser either online or
offline. That’s the gratifying part. In the following sections, you get to try out
Flash by working through a basic animation. The rest of the book explains
these concepts in more detail.
Conceiving your first animation
Suppose that you want to add an animated logo
to a home page that you already set up. You
want the animation to run when the page loads
and then stop. Figure 1-8 shows the Rainbow
Resources company logo — unanimated, of
course — that you can find on this book’s Web
site, at www.dummies.com/go/flashcs5fd.
Suppose that you want the word Rainbow to
fly into your page from the right and the word
Resources to fly in from the left. At the same time,
you want the graphic to rotate 180 degrees. The following section shows you
how to create this animation.
Creating flashy drawings
You can use Flash to create a company logo, but importing one from this
book’s Web site is simpler. Often, you import existing graphics (such as a
company logo) from a file rather than create them from scratch. (Chapter 3
explains how to import and manipulate graphics.)
Figure 1-8: A company logo that
could stand some animation.
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