OVERVIEW

What is Flash?
Flash is a program for designing graphic animations. It was specially created as a tool to publish graphics on the internet in a more efficient way: flash files download faster and with a better quality of image. You can also add interactive elements as for example buttons in a very easy way. 

What will you learn?
At the end of this course you will know how to import, modify and create graphics, to animate these graphics, and to create interactive elements. With this you can design animated introductions and banners for your websites or presentations and design buttons to surf around them.

INTRODUCTION  
How does Flash work? Flash works like a real movie. A real movie is composed of many photo grams with a different image in each one, and watching them at a certain speed gives us the illusion of movement. Flash photo grams are called “frames” and they are shown at an average speed of 12 frames per second. The good news is that you don’t need to paint every frame manually: the animation between two frames is done automatically. The frames that you create manually (frame 1 and 5 in fig. 1) are called “keyframes” and are shown as black points (fig. 3).
   (fig. 1)  

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