[...]... Transformation Point 11 1 Breaking Apart Objects .11 2 Establishing Order on the Stage .11 3 Undoing, Redoing, and Reusing 11 4 Undoing actions 11 4 Redoing actions 11 5 Using object-level undo and redo 11 5 Reusing actions with the History panel 11 6 Chapter 5: What’s Your Type? 11 9 Presenting Your Text 11 9... Blast of Flash 7 Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Flash CS3 9 Discovering Flash 10 Understanding What You Can Create with Flash CS3 11 Determining When Not to Use Flash CS3 12 Getting the Right Start 12 Starting Flash on a PC 13 Starting Flash on a Mac .13 Creating a new movie 13 Opening an existing movie 14 Taking... 10 0 Transforming Fills 10 1 Transferring Properties .10 3 Finding and Replacing Objects 10 4 xi xii Flash CS3 For Dummies Transforming Objects 10 5 Scaling, scaling .10 5 ’Round and ’round and ’round we rotate 10 6 Getting skewy 10 8 Flippety, floppety 10 8 Combining Objects .10 9 Getting Grouped 11 0 Changing... 15 5 Converting an animation to a movie clip symbol 15 5 Creating a symbol by duplicating a symbol 15 6 Modifying Symbols .15 7 Changing the properties of a symbol .15 7 Editing symbols 15 7 Using Symbols from Other Movies 16 0 Using the Flash Library 16 1 Using the Flash For Dummies Library .16 2 Working with Instances, for Instance 16 2 Inserting... a button 18 0 Part IV: Total Flash- o-Rama .18 3 Chapter 9: Getting Animated 18 5 Who Framed the Animation? 18 5 Preparing to Animate 18 6 Master of the Timeline .18 7 Turtle or hare? 18 9 xiii xiv Flash CS3 For Dummies Creating Animations Instantly with Timeline Effects 19 0 Animating with Keyframes 19 1 Frame after frame... 14 Taking a Look Around 14 Tooling around the toolbars .15 Using panels 15 Discovering the Flash menus 16 Customizing the workspace 19 Staging your movies 19 Following a timeline .20 Getting Help in a Flash 21 Help’s multiple manuals 21 Finding more help on the Web 22 x Flash CS3 For Dummies Try It; You’ll Like It ... 12 0 Editing text 12 1 Setting character attributes 12 4 Hyperlinking text 12 8 Getting the best text appearance .12 8 Setting up paragraph formats 12 9 Creating input and dynamic text 13 1 Creating Cool Text Effects 13 2 Chapter 6: Layering It On 13 5 Creating Layers 13 6 Using layers .13 6 Changing... .16 2 Editing instances 16 4 Chapter 8: Pushing Buttons 17 1 Creating Simple Buttons 17 1 Understanding button states 17 2 Making a basic button 17 3 Putting Buttons to the Test .17 4 Creating Complex Buttons 17 5 Adding a sound to a button 17 6 Adding a movie clip to a button .17 7 Adding an action for a button... states .13 7 Getting Those Layers Right 13 9 Deleting layers 13 9 Copying layers 13 9 Renaming layers 14 0 Reordering layers .14 0 Organizing layers 14 1 Modifying layer properties 14 2 Creating Guide Layers 14 3 Opening Windows with Mask Layers .14 5 Creating a mask layer .14 5 Editing mask layers 14 6 Animating... your movie for printing 309 Specifying printable frames 310 Specifying the print area 310 Printing movies from the Flash Player 311 Part VI: The Part of Tens 313 Chapter 14 : Ten Frequently Asked Questions 315 How Do I Combine Two Flash Movies? 315 Why Is Motion Tweening Not Working? 316 How Can I Sync Sound with Motion? 317 What Is . Leete Flash ® CS3 FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_ 1 210 09 ffirs.qxp 4 /10 /07 6 :13 PM Page i 01_ 1 210 09 ffirs.qxp 4 /10 /07 6 :13 PM Page iv by Ellen Finkelstein and Gurdy Leete Flash ® CS3 FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_ 1 210 09. 11 2 Establishing Order on the Stage 11 3 Undoing, Redoing, and Reusing 11 4 Undoing actions 11 4 Redoing actions 11 5 Using object-level undo and redo 11 5 Reusing actions with the History panel 11 6 Chapter. Symbolic 14 9 Chapter 7: Heavy Symbolism 15 1 Chapter 8: Pushing Buttons 17 1 Part IV: Total Flash- o-Rama 18 3 Chapter 9: Getting Animated 18 5 Chapter 10 : Getting Interactive 217 Chapter 11 : Extravagant