When you open the Flash CS6 program, you are greeted with the Welcome screen where you have several options including starting a new project. Now that we are ready to start our first Flash project, let's take a look at how to set up your first Flash document.

In this tutorial, we will continue our tour of the Flash Tools panel. You will notice that as you select a tool, the controls in the Properties panel change to reflect that tool.

The Flash Tools panel is a vertical strip of tools on the right side of the Flash workspace. The tools in the panel are divided into several sections, making the panel more intuitive.

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We will continue to take our tour of the Flash Workspace. This tutorial is to familiarize you with the names and purposes of the parts of the workspace.

The next step in our Flash Beginner's Guide series is to take a tour of the Flash user interface and all the authoring tools Flash has for web, mobile, desktop and media-rich projects. Let's get started.

When you first open Flash, you will see a Welcome screen which contains many options for taking your first steps with Flash Professional. Let's see what kind of help we can find when starting a new project.

One of the best ways to promote or market your children's storybook app is to publish a video trailer, which you have created in Flash. Once you have uploaded your trailer, embed it into your storybook app's landing page, your author/artist website and your app's Facebook Fan page.

What is Flash CS6 and how has it changed over the last decade. An introduction to the Beginner's Guide to Flash series of articles.

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