the boxes. In general, the Break Apart command is more powerful because it can break apart a bitmap or instance into editable parts, as well as ungrouping grouped objects. 4. Click on any part of the selected green shapes. 5. In the Property inspector, click the Fill Color box. 6. Enter 85 in the Alpha box. 7. Click Scene 1 to return to the main Timeline. The orange foreground and green boxes are less opaque, so you can see the beach image behind them. Using Web-Safe Colors When you view files in a web browser using a 256-color display, many colors appear dithered. The web-safe palette in Flash includes 216 colors that are most likely to appear as you expect, without dithering, on different computers using different operating systems and web browsers. The web-safe palette is the default color palette in Flash. Appendix A shows the colors in the web-safe palette and their corresponding hexadecimal values. Most current computers display thousands or millions of colors, making web-safe colors less important than they once were. However, handheld devices and cell phone displays have more limited colors, so if you're creating SWF files to be viewed on those devices, it's best to use web-safe colors. To ensure you're using the web-safe palette when you add color to objects in Flash, choose Web 216 from the Swatches panel menu. When you import artwork, it may contain additional colors. You'll change the orange rectangle in the menu background to a web-safe color. 1. With the Selection tool, double-click the instance of the menu_background symbol to edit it in place. The menu_background Timeline opens. Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click the lock icon for the Menu Background layer in the Timeline to leave that layer unlocked but lock all the other layers, so that you don't accidentally select objects on those layers. 2. Double-click the large orange rectangle to edit its group. 3. Select the rectangle. 4. In the Property inspector, click the Fill Color box. 5. Type #FF6600 in the color value field to apply a web-safe orange color. 6. Press Enter or Return to apply the color. 7. Click Scene 1 to return to the main Timeline. The DVD interface has its background, its buttons, and its video clip thumbnails. It's ready to go. To make it interactive, all you need is ActionScript, which you'll learn about in Lessons 7, 8, 9, and 10.   Review Review Questions 1 What is a symbol, and how does it differ from an instance 2 Name two ways that you can import an asset into Flash.