This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Starting a Lesson
Within Edge Animate you can take In-App Lessons to help you get started with the project. Edge Animate provides seven In App step-by step lessons with the aid of the Lessons panel. The lessons include Quick Start to help you get going, Create to teach you how to work with shapes, text and images, Animate I: Keyframes and II: The Pin to show you how to use keyframes and pins, Resize to learn how to respond to size changes, Extend to learn how to loop and handle user interaction, and Reuse to show you how to create reusable objects with symbols. You can start an In App Lesson from the Welcome screen or the Lessons panel. After you start a lesson, the Lessons panel walks you through topic as you perform the steps in the Edge Animate window.
Start a Lesson from the Welcome Screen
Start Adobe Edge Animate, or close all open documents (click the File menu, and then click Close All).
Click Getting Started, if necessary.
Point to a lesson tile to view a brief description.
Click a lesson tile to start it.The Welcome screen closes, Edge Animate creates a new Untitled project, and the Lessons panel opens with the selected lesson.
Read and perform the lesson steps in the Edge Animate window as indicated in the Lessons panel.
At the bottom of the Lessons panel, click the Next Step link.
Follow the additional steps or click links to start other lessons.After you complete the lesson, you can save or close the Untitled project.
To close the Lessons panel, click the Window menu, and then click Lessons or click the Close button on the panel.
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Start a Lesson from the Lessons Panel
- Click the Window menu, and then click Lessons to select (show) the check mark.
The Lessons panel opens, displaying a list of In-App Lessons.
- Click a lesson tile to start it.
Edge Animate creates a new Untitled project, and the Lessons panel displays the start of the selected lesson.
- Read and perform the lesson steps in the Edge Animate window as indicated in the Lessons panel.
- At the bottom of the Lessons panel, click the Next Step link.
- Follow the additional steps or click links to start other lessons.
After you complete the lesson, you can save or close the Untitled project.
- To close the Lessons panel, click the Window menu, and then click Lessons or click the Close button on the panel.
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