Flash CS5 desktop tutorial

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Definition

Learning goals:

• Learn about various components of the Flash CS5 Desktop
• Learn how to configure and how to save configurations

Prerequisites:

• none

Next steps:

• Flash drawing tutorial
• Flash layers tutorial

Alternative:

• Flash CS3 desktop tutorial
• Flash CS4 desktop tutorial

The Flash CS5 desktop works exactly like the CS4 desktop. Differences are really minor and mostly cosmetic. Therefore, see the Flash CS4 desktop tutorial for now.

CS5:

Flash CS5 Desktop

CS4:

Flash CS4 Desktop

Of course, CS5 has its share of new things (and will result in new menu items and some panel modifications), and we will introduce them in other tutorials at some point. See the Flash article for a short comparison.