Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Classroom In A Book | Page 24

By default, you’ll see the gray area off the Stage where you can place elements that
won’t be visible to your audience. The gray area is called the Pasteboard. To just
see the Stage, choose View > Pasteboard to deselect the option. For now, leave the
option selected.
To scale the Stage so that it fits completely in the application window, choose
View > Magnification > Fit in Window. You can also choose different magnification
view options from the pop-up menu just above the Stage.
changing the Stage properties
Now you’ll change the color of the Stage. The Stage color, and other document
properties such as the Stage dimensions and frame rate, are available in the
Properties inspector, which is the vertical panel just to the right of the Stage.
1 At the bottom of the Properties inspector, note that the dimensions of the
current Stage are set at 800 x 600 pixels, which you chose when you created the
new document.
Adobe FLAsh ProFessionAL Cs6 CLAssroom in A book
15