Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book®

Chapter 4. Working with Text

Text—dynamic or static—can play a critical role in a Flash movie. You can animate it easily using a simple mask, apply a filter to create a special effect, or use it to provide the viewer with essential information.

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

• Create text in Flash

• Format text

• Convert text fields to symbols

• Use masks to animate text

• Organize layers in a Timeline

• Work with layer folders

• Copy objects from one layer to another

• Apply filters to text

• Use tweening to animate objects quickly

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This lesson will take approximately 90 minutes to complete. If needed, ...