Saturday, 7 September 2013

Class 6 - Macromedia Flash

We are going to learn Animation. yes real animation. You don't have to be an artist, just little bit of creativity and lots of interest are enough.  Its going to be exciting . So first the basics......



The intersecting horizontal and vertical lines on the stage is called a Grid. If you select show grid your stage will look like this


 

Tool Box

Toolbox  is divided into 4 sections.
  •  Tools : It contains basic drawing and editing tools.
  • View : Hand tool and zoom tool help the user to view the stage clearly.
 
Hand tool moves the stage , zoom tool enlarges the stage.

 

  • Colors : The border color and fill color can be selected from this section.
  • Options : It contains the modifiers. They are used to change the properties of the selected tool.
  • Property inspector : The height, width, color etc can be changed here.
  • Timeline : It is used to set the timing of the animation. Has two parts namely Frames and Layers.