Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book®

Chapter 3. Creating and Editing Symbols

Movie clip, graphic, and button symbols keep your file size small while increasing your flexibility. A single symbol can be used countless times in a project, but the file’s data only has to be included once.

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In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Import Illustrator files

• Create new symbols

• Understand the difference between symbol types

• Adjust transparency

• Import assets into the library

• Use library assets

• Convert bitmap graphics to vectors

• Reduce the file size of Flash documents

• Apply web-safe colors

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This lesson will take about an hour to complete. If ...