Menu commands, key short-cuts, dialog boxes help you to control Flash; they are there to help you perform various functions such as opening a file, creating a new file, editing images, importing graphics and sound, and creating animations.

Tools for drawing, selecting, editing, coloring, and viewing images

Controls the behavior of shapes and images to create animation. Important concept is the use of keyframes which are arranged according to the sequence your movie. There are three kinds of animation on a timeline: Frame-by-Frame, Shape Tween or Mophing, and Motion Tween.   Important Timeline components are layers, frames, onion skin, and the playhead or scrubber.

Is the gray area that surrounds the stage. You can make entrances onto the stage.  You can use this area to place images that you do not want to be printed.

Is the white rectangular area where you can create and view the various components of a movie.

Helps you to monitor, arrange, and modify the images in the movie. You can view or hide the panels by using the Window menu option or by clicking the icons on the Launcher bar. You can also doc tabs within a panel to customize a panel.

Lists all imported graphics and symbols used as instances on your stage.  You can make folders in the library to organize your assets.

A context-sensitive panel that displays the properties of documents, objects, frames, and tools.  Most used panel.

Select, move, or change the size of an object

Allows you to select the individual anchor points of an object

Allows you to draw straight lines that can connect to each other

Allows you to make a freehand selection of object areas.

Creates anchor points on either straight or curved line segments

Insert editable text

Creates an oval shape

Create rectangles and squares

Draw freeform lines and shapes

Offers different options for painting an object normal, fills, behind, selection or inside.

Changes the stroke color of the selected object.

Change fill color of shapes

Takes the attributes from one object and applies them to another.

Erase unwanted parts of a shape

View a shape inn the magnified form.

Allows you to manually move around the work area

Specifies the stroke color of the selected object

Specifies the fill color of the selected object