7. Associate Yourself With The
Tools Learn their shortcuts.
Hand Tool (Press H)
Zoom Tool (Press K)
Current Pen/Stroke Colour
Current Paint/Fill Colour
8. Now, To Make Something.
• For the sake of convenience, I will show you how to make a
glowing smiley face on Flash Pro.
Click on Stroke Colour, set it to black. Click on Fill Colour,
set it to yellow.
Press “O”
9. Smiley Face Step One
• After pressing “O”
• Click on the white box (The stage) and drag your desired circle.
• Press “Shift” as you drag, it will keep a perfect circle.
10. Smiley Face Step Two
• Do as done previously to make two smaller circles
• This time, make the Fill Colour white.
• Now, put two even smaller circles inside the white ones.
• Make the Fill Colour Black.
• It should look something like this:
11. Smiley Face Step Three
• Now, press “N”
• Click and drag, while pressing “Shift”
• You will want to drag the line across the face.
12. Smiley Face Step Four
• Using the Line Tool (N), click on one of the ends of your first
line, and drag on an angle.
• DO NOT PRESS SHIFT
13. Smiley Face Step Five
• Using the Line Tool (N), click on one of the ends of your new line, and drag
on an angle to the start of the first line.
• This should look like a triangle.
• Don’t press shift, and make sure the magnet is clicked beforehand.
14. Smiley Face Step Six
• Press “V”
• Now, using the Selection Tool (V) click and drag each line.
• The end result you are looking for is similar to this.
15. Smiley Face Step Seven
• Press “K”
• Now, using the Fill Tool (K) Fill in the gaping smile.
• Make the fill colour pink or red, like previously done for the
circle.
• The end result you are looking for is similar to this.
16. Smiley Face Step Eight
• This is optional.
• If you wish, add touch ups like shading on size changes etc.
• This can be done with tools used in earlier steps.
17. Now, To Add Glow
• To add “Glow” to an object, you are adding a filter.
• Filters are basically special effects, applied to symbols.
• The next steps explain how to add any filter you wish.
18. Glow, Step One
• We’ll be using the smiley face out of convenience.
• Press “V”
• Left click and drag over the entire smiley face
• Right click on the smiley face, and press “Convert to Symbol” in
the pop up menu.
19. Glow, Step Two
• Name the symbol “Smiley”
• Next, click Smiley and open the “Properties” tab.
• This can be done by either Ctrl + F3, or pressing the following
icon:
20. Glow, Step Three
• In “Properties” click the “Filters” tab.
• Click the small, Blue “+” in CS3
• In CS6, Press the little square with the fold on the corner.
21. Glow, Step Four
• After clicking the +/Square,
• Scroll to “Glow” and click.
22. Glow, Step Five
• Adjust the Blur X and Blur Y to 15 (Double click, insert 15)
• Set Strength to 75.
• Click and change from Low Quality, to High Quality.
• Make the colour yellow, click the red square, and change to
yellow.
23. Congratulations!
You Know The Basics Of Flash
Pro CS3/CS6!
• You can now:
• Make lines
• Make shapes
• Warp shapes
• Shade
• Make symbols
• Add filters
The Next Step:
Discover on your own!
Play around with the tools
didn’t use!
Experiment, and have fun!
24. For More Tutorials On Flash Pro,
See The Following:
• Shape Tween Animation Tutorial
• Motion Tween Animation Tutorial
• Pacman Animation Tutorial
• Polistar's Simple Shading Guide
• Polistar's Simple Shading Guide 2
25. Many Thanks To:
• The Flash Explained Website Site
• Polistar, Former Herosmash Dev Site
• My Alter-Ego Mesumeri Shiro Site
• Shaister (Original Glow Guru) Site
• Steven Griffin, AdventureQuest Dev Site
• PelleK (Music) Site