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Mastering Adobe Animate 2021

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Animate 2021 Explore professional techniques and best practices to design vivid animations and interactive content

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074162
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Up-To-Speed
2. Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Adobe Animate FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Platform-Specific Considerations 4. Chapter 3: Settling into the User Interface 5. Chapter 4: Publishing and Exporting Creative Content 6. Section 2: Animating with Diverse Techniques
7. Chapter 5: Creating and Manipulating Media Content 8. Chapter 6: Interactive Motion Graphics for the Web 9. Chapter 7: Character Design through Layer Parenting 10. Chapter 8: Animating Poses with IK Armatures 11. Chapter 9: Working with the Camera and Layer Depth 12. Section 3: Exploring Additional Platforms
13. Chapter 10: Developing Web-Based Games 14. Chapter 11: Producing Virtual Reality Content for WebGL 15. Chapter 12: Building Apps for Desktop and Mobile 16. Chapter 13: Extending Adobe Animate 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Customizing the Tools and Timeline panels

Both the Tools and Timeline panel customizations are relatively new to Animate, but are absolutely required, with more tools and features being added in these areas. You can now keep your most frequently used tools in both the Tools and Timeline panels ready for immediate access instead of being hidden or grouped beneath other tools. It's completely under your control!

Customizing the Tools Panel

As of the time of writing, the Animate Tools panel consists of 37 individual tools – a lot to fit on one tiny panel! As a result of this, older versions of Animate would have many of these tools grouped together, making them difficult to locate. In newer versions of Animate, we can now hide any tools that we do not often use and can make individual decisions regarding whether to group tools together:

  1. To edit your Tools panel, look at the bottom area of the panel and locate the Edit Toolbar… button. It appears as a small...
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