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Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Classroom in a Book

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ISBN-13: 978-0-321-82251-2
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book includes the lesson files that youll need to complete the exercises in this book, as well as other content to help you learn more about Adobe Photoshop CS6 and use it with greater efficiency and ease. The diagram below represents the contents of the lesson files directory, which should help you locate the files you need.

Adobe Flash Professional CS6 provides a comprehensive authoring environment for creating interactive and media-rich applications. Flash is widely used to create engaging projects integrating video, sound, graphics, and animation. You can create original content in Flash or import assets from other Adobe applications such as Photoshop or Illustrator, quickly design animation and multimedia, and use Adobe ActionScript 3.0 to integrate sophisticated interactivity.

Use Flash to build innovative and immersive Web sites, to create stand-alone applications for the desktop, or to create apps to distribute to mobile devices running on the Android or the iOS system.

With extensive controls for animation, intuitive and flexible drawing tools, and a powerful object-oriented coding language, Flash delivers one of the only robust environments that let your imagination become reality.

Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Classroom in a Book is part of the official training series for Adobe graphics and publishing software developed with the support of Adobe product experts. The lessons are designed so you can learn at your own pace. If youre new to Flash, youll learn the fundamental concepts and features youll need to use the program. Classroom in a Book also teaches many advanced features, including tips and techniques for using the latest version of this application.

The lessons in this book provide opportunities to use some of the new features and improvements in Flash Professional CS6, including:

An updated Document panel for quick access to document settings

Powerful controls for managing layers

Stage resizing that scales all your content proportionally

Auto-Save and Auto-Recovery, new options that can ease your mind over potential lost work due to crashes.

Additional options for symbols, Convert to Bitmap and Export as Bitmap, which provide greater control over graphics handling.

Outputting animations as a Sprite sheet or PNG sequences to support alternative approaches to animation.

A new feature for inverse kinematics called Pinning, which allows finer control for armatures.

A tab ruler for TLF text for positioning of text with layout precision.

An improved Code Snippets panel featuring a fast, visual way of applying code to objects on the Stage.

Additional code snippets available in the Code Snippets panel, many geared particularly toward mobile device interactions.