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Configuring an Animate document

Configuring an Animate document - Adobe Animate Tutorial

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Configuring an Animate document

- [Instructor] When starting any type of project using Animate, the first steps are always to create a new document, configure various document properties, and then save the file to the local file system. We'll now step through this process. When you first open Adobe Animate, you'll see a welcome screen or a start screen. This presents us with a number of different options here, and there are various presets that you can look at along the top such as Education, Games, the Web, Character Animation, and Character Animation will be the primary. So let's keep it on that, and we're going to choose a standard 640 by 480 preset. So with that selected, let's hit create. There we go, there's our new document created for us by Animate, and the first thing I'm going to do here is change the stage color to something other than complete white, and we can do that by choosing any of these different swatches here, or we can always paste in a value. So I'm using this light blue color. That is BDCEDE…

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