Adobe Animate

What is Animate?

- - - Animate is a development tool that allows you to create interactive animations with cutting-edge drawing tools.

- - - The timeline is used to organize and control the movie’s content by specifying when each object appears on the stage.

- - - Contains all objects that are seen by the viewer in the final movie.
    - You can draw objects on, or import objects to the stage.

- - - Help you view, organize, and change elements or object in a file.
    - The options available on panels control the characteristics of symbols, instances, colors, type, frames, and other elements.
    - Panels include Properties Panel, Library Panel, Tools Panel, Actions Panel, Color Panel, Swatches Panel, and etc.

Selection - Selects objects on the work area; an object must be selected before it can be modified.

Subselection - Selects objects or parts of objects by dragging a rectangular selection marquee. Modifies specific anchor points in a line or curve.

Free Transform - Moves, scales, rotates, skews, or distorts objects.

Lasso - Selects objects or parts of objects by dragging a free-form selection marquee.

Pen - Draws lines or curves by creating a series of dots (anchor points technically) that are automatically connected.

Text - Creates and edits text.

Line - Draws straight lines (strokes) of varying lengths, widths and colors.

Rectangle - Draws rectangles of different sizes and colors. Press and hold [Shift] to draw a perfect square.

Oval - Draws oval shapes. Press and hold [Shift] to draw a perfect circle.

Pencil - Draws freehand lines and shapes.

Brush - Draws / paints with brush-like strokes.

Ink Bottle - Applies color, thickness and styles to lines.

Paint Bucket - Fills enclosed areas of a drawing with color.

Eyedropper - Picks up styles of existing lines, fills, and text and applies them to other objects.

Eraser - Erases lines and fills.

Hand - Moves the view of the Stage and Work Area.

Zoom - Increases or reduces the view of the Stage and Work Area.

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