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Animating text, bitmaps, and other objects

Animating text, bitmaps, and other objects - Flash Professional Tutorial

From the course: Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training

Animating text, bitmaps, and other objects

When you're working with motion tweens, understand that Flash is not really limited to what object can be motion tweened. Remember that in order to motion tween, you need to use a symbol. Now, any object in Flash can be turned into a symbol. So if you want to animate a text field or a bitmap image or any other object in Flash, you just have to get it inside of a symbol. So here I'm going to animate some text. That text is in the logo that says Explore California. I'll start by wrapping this inside of a graphic symbol. To do that, I'm going to lock every layer except for the logo layer. I'm going to Alt+click or Option+click the dot on the logo layer under the lock. So I've locked everything except for that layer. I can click and drag around the logo and press F8 on the keyboard to convert it to a symbol. I'll just call this Logo and then I'll click OK. So now I have an instance of my graphic symbol. Now it's time to create the motion tween. I'll right click the logo and choose Create…

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