If you’ve never touched flash and have always wanted to learn, here are the first two steps for the journey:

1. Go to Flash product page on Adobe site and download the trial version. Since most people are not sure of what they want to do, free trial is probably a wise way to go in case you discover that it’s not for you.
2. Get familiar with flash drawing tools. Tizag.com has a really good introduction to each tool, but of course the best way to get familiar with them is to use them. Find a drawing and try to re-create it in flash using the drawing tools.

These are two baby steps that will lead to many more. If you’re ready to move on, of course after you know how to draw things, you want to make them do things: animation!

Here are few things that you should do research on if you can’t wait for my next blog entry for the next step:

• symbol vs instance
• timeline/playhead
• keyframe

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