Adobe Flash

Learn just what you need to know, with a Connect Learning Tutor

Adobe® Flash® Professional software is the industry standard for interactive authoring and delivery of immersive experiences that present consistently across personal computers, mobile devices, and screens of virtually any size and resolution.

Flash Professional CS5

Your CL Flash tutor can get you up to speed quickly on the new features in CS5. Learn to

  • Take complete control over your text with print-quality typography via the new Text Layout Framework
  • Collaborate on projects more easily with a new XML-based implementation of the FLA file format.
  • Speed project completion by using convenient prewritten code snippets for common actions, animation, audio and video insertion
  • Learn how to use Flash Professional together with Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, and InDesign
  • Add lifelike spring and bounce animation with the Bones tool’s improved kinematics engine
  • Add advanced animation effects with a new comprehensive set of brushes for the Deco tool. Quickly create movement for particle phenomena like clouds or rain
  • Streamline video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing and a new cue points property inspector
  • Work faster with the improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code hinting and code completion.
  • Work more closely with developers who can use your Flash project files with Flash Builder to test, debug, and publish your content more efficiently

Your Current Version of Flash

Your CL Flash Tutor can build on what you know or start from scratch.

  • Create a new Flash document
  • Create a Flash document from a template
  • Set and modify document properties
  • Import artwork
  • Create and edit artwork
  • Create three types of symbol: graphic, button, and movie clip
  • Create and modify an instance
  • Use an asset from the Library
  • Convert an object on the Stage into a symbol in the Library
  • Use an asset from the Library of another Flash document
  • Create a button
  • Control a symbol with ActionScript
  • Control a symbol with a behavior
  • Add and configure a behavior
  • Create a custom behavior
  • Enable 9-slice scaling for a movie clip symbol
  • Edit a 9-slice scaling movie clip symbol
  • Create animation using the timeline
  • Create a motion tween and edit its path
  • Apply Ease in and Ease out to a motion tween
  • Create a Shape Tween
  • Create a classic Tween
  • Create and use Mask layers
  • Use inverse kinematics, adding bones to symbols and shapes
  • Insert a keyframe
  • Create and organize layers
  • Insert a property keyframe (Flash CS4 only)
  • Animate each property separately
  • Make an animation using the Motion Editor (Flash CS4 only)
  • Apply filters and blend modes
  • Create text and set text attributes
  • Work with multi-lingual text
  • Use Guide layers
  • Manage multiple timelines and levels
  • Manage nested movie clips
  • Create mobile content