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Create animations using the Timeline

Last updated 6/15/2014

5 Click the vertical offset and type 4.

6 Click the Blur radius and type 14.

7 Click Spread and type 2.

If you want one of the elements to look three dimensional, you can use the same settings but click the Inset button.

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tead of appearing outside of the element, the shadow is created inside the element. As the name implies, the

Spread property controls the size of the shadow making it spread in all directions. As with any other property, you

can make the drop shadow change over time. With a little creativity, you can create the impression of the sun

changing position in the sky, with shadows moving and changing shape. Shadows are an important tool for text, too:

text is more readable over a busy background when separated by a shadow.

Importing Art

It’s easy enough to create basic shapes and text in Animate, but when it comes to complex artwork, you’ll probably turn

to your favorite art creation tools. For elaborate drawings and line art, that may be Adobe Illustrator. For photographs,

you may use Photoshop, Lightroom, or iPhoto. Adobe Fireworks may be the ideal companion tool for Animate because

both tools were designed to create Web content. No matter how you create JPEGs, GIFs, PNGs, or SVGs, you can

import them into Animate and then animate them by changing their position on the stage and their appearance.

Regardless of the file format, the process for importing artwork is the same. Go to File?Import and then find the file

you

nt to bring into your project. The Missing CD folder 02-2_Sliding_Show has three photos in JPEG format. You

can practice by creating a new project complete with a new folder named 02-2_Sliding_Show and import each of the

photos. After you choose File?Import, a standard file/folder window opens for your PC or Mac. If you want to import

all three files at once, just Shift-click to select them. As usual, Animate imports the files and, as a handy timesaver,

names them based on the filenames. In this case, you’ll find squirrel, farmhouse, and bike in your Elements panel. Each

image is also automatically placed at the 0,0 position on the stage. You’ll only see one of the images though, because

they’re covering one another.

Choosing between GIF, JPG, PNG and SVG

The world of 2D computer graphics offers two systems for storing and displaying images: bitmaps (technically called

raster graphics) and vector graphics.

Computer programs store bitmaps as a bunch of pixels, identified by color and position. The term Bitmap graphics

doesn

’t refer to just files with the Windows bitmap (.bmp) extension; it refers to all images stored in bitmap format,

including .gif, .jpg, .tiff, and .png.

The good thing about bitmap graphics is that they let you create super-realistic detail with complex colors, gradients,

subtle shadings. On the downside, uncompressed bitmaps typically take up a whopping amount of disk space, and

they’re not particularly scalable. For example, suppose you have a bitmap image of a car, and you tell a program to

increase the size by 500 percent.

The program has to create new pixels for the bigger image, so it duplicates the pixels (colored dots) already in the image.

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ults aren’t always pretty. The entire image is likely to appear blurry. The curved edges may become blocky or

pixelated.

Computers store vector graphics as a bunch of formulas. Compared to raster graphics, vector graphics are relatively

dest

in size, and they’re scalable. In other words, if you draw a tiny car and decide to scale it 500 percent, your scaled

drawing will still have nice, crisp details.

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