Interface Tools

Zooming

• Zooming II (numerical)
  
• Zooming II (zoom to fit window)
  
• Zooming III (main menu)

The Grid

• Showing the grid
  
• Changing grid size
  
• Changing grid color

Snapping

• Snap to grid (main menu)
  
• Snap to object (main menu)
  
• Snap to guide (main menu)
  
• Edit Snapping

The Ruler

• Showing the ruler
• Changing ruler units

Guides

• Showing guides
• Changing guide color
  
• Clear guides
  
• Lock guides
  
• Using guides to draw shapes
  
• Using guides to position objects

 

The canvas

• Set canvas size I
  
• Changing canvas size II
  
• Set canvas color I
  
• Changing the canvas color II
  
• Fitting canvas to contents

The Menu bar

Working with frames and keyframes (menu bar)

• Insert frames
  
• Remove frames
  
• Insert a keyframe
  
• Insert blank keyframe
  
• Clear a keyframe
  
• Convert to keyframe
  
• Convert to blank keyframe
  
• Cut frames
  
• Copy a keyframe
  
• Paste frames
  
• Select all frames

Working with layers (menu bar)

• Insert new layer II
  
• Delete layer II
  
• How to lock a layer from editing II
  
• Lock all layers from editing
  
• Hide a layer on the stage II
  
• Hide all layers on the stage
  
• Distributing objects to layers
  
• Show layers as outlines
  
• Onion Skin outlines

Transforming objects (menu bar)

• Bitmap free transform
  
• Bitmap free transform rotation
  
• Rotate bitmap 90 degrees cw
  
• Rotate bitmap 90 degrees ccw
  
• Scale and rotate bitmap numerically
  
• Scale bitmap
  
• Skew bitmap
  
• Flip bitmap vertically
  
• Flip bitmap horizontally
  
• Remove transformations

 

The Timeline

Working with frames and keyframes

• Insert frames
  
• Remove frames
  
• Insert a keyframe
  
• Insert blank keyframe
  
• Clear a keyframe
  
• Convert to keyframe
  
• Convert to blank keyframe
  
• Cut and paste frames
  
• Copy and paste keyframe
  
• Select all frames in a timeline
  
• Drag frames
  
• Drag keyframes
  
• Drag frames and keyframes
  
• Drag frames and Keyframes to another layer
  
• Onion skin all frames
  
• Onion skin selected frames
  
• Edit multiple selected frames
  
• Edit all frames

Working with layers

• Create new layer
  
• Rename a layer
  
• Re-ordering layers
  
• Delete layer
  
• Lock a layer from editing
  
• Hide a layer

 

The Panels

Viewing panels

• Show/Hide timeline
  
• Show/Hide panels
  
• Show/Hide tools
  

Showing selected panels

• Show properties panel I
  
• Show align panel I
  
• Show color panel I
  
• Showing the library panel I

The Align Panel

• Aligning objects to the stage
  
• Align an object relative to another object
  
• Distribute objects vertically
  
• Distribute objects horizontally
  
• Match objects sizes
  
• Finding object information

The Transform Panel

• Scale an object
  
• Vertically Resize an object
  
• Horizontally resizing an object
  
• Rotations
  
• Vertical skew
  
• Horizontal skew
  
• Copy and apply a transform
  
• Reset transformation

The Color Panel

• Using the color mixer
  
• Create a linear gradient fill
  
• change the gradient of a linear gradient fill
  
• Add a color to a linear gradient fill
  
• Create a radial gradient fill
  
• Setting the alpha value of a stroke
  
• Setting the alpha value of a fill