Saturday, January 26, 2008

Who doesn’t use shortcuts?

I’ve always found it easy to use shortcuts on programs I use most, like Flash, Photoshop, on my Mac, it always makes my life easier, being able to finish my task faster and more efficient have given me more free time to finish other tasks.

So in Flash, what you can also do is customize your own settings, make it more efficient for you, but I’m too lazy to change shortcuts, I mainly memorize the keys I use most often. A really cool feature about Flash, is that you can have the shortcuts similar to Photoshop, and Illustrator or even Fireworks.

If you’re not sure where to change the settings, go to edit => keyboard shortcuts, it also allows you to save the shortcuts as an HTML file, for you to print off or view separately. Great help, but only if you know what you need, and well the list is just too long. Export it, and see it for yourself.

Here are some of the shortcuts I mainly use:
F5 = add frame
F6 = add key frame
F7 = add blank frame
F8 = convert to symbol
Crtl + F8 = create new symbol
Q = free transform
V = arrow
SHIFT + right = move object in an interval
Crtl + = = zoom in
Crtl + - = zoom out
Crtl + 1 = zoom at 100%
Crtl + S = save
Crtl + C = copy object
Crtl + X = cut object
Crtl + V = paste object
Crtl + SHIFT + V = paste object at same XY coordinate as when copied

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