Flash Professional CS6 is such a powerful program that it can seem overwhelming to new or occasional users. WithFlash Professional CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide,readers get a solid grounding in the fundamentals of the most recent version of the software.

Highlights include new user options for setting document properties when creating or modifying documents; new layout and options in the Publish Settings dialog; working with tabbed text in Flash's text-layout framework; copying and pasting Timeline layers; using the heads-up display when working with ActionScript code snippets; pinning bones for easy manipulation when working with inverse kinematics. Plus, learn about new options for exporting assets created in Flash as a PNG sequence; as a spite sheet, or as JavaScript and HTML5, via the CreateJS extension.