Adobe Flash Course
This Adobe authorised course is designed for new users of Flash who wish to create visually engaging rich media content using the powerful design and animation tools available in Flash.
Adobe Flash has become a web standard - fusing the precision and flexibility of vector graphics with animation, interactivity, video and audio to create web content that attracts and engages. With powerful ActionScripting and e-commerce capabilities, Flash is a web design and development tool of the future.
This extremely popular two day course has proved to be the most effective way of getting up and running in Macromedia Flash quickly and easily. This comprehensive course covers the Flash basics, importing, creating and editing vector graphics and working with text as well as creating animations, building a navigational system, creating interactive elements using built-in ActionScript behaviours, incorporating sound and video and publishing and testing your Flash movies.
Course Content
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DAY ONE
INTRODUCTION
Course objectives
WORKING IN FLASH
Using the Macromedia Flash interface
Creating a new Flash document
Setting stage dimensions
Working with panels and panel layouts
Setting preferences
Identifying the development cycle
Working with vectors
Publishing a file
CREATING AND IMPORTING GRAPHIC ASSETS
Working with different graphic formats
Importing bitmap graphics
Layering Flash elements
Organising using the Layer folder
Using the drawing tools
Using Object and Merge drawings
Working with the colour panels
Creating a colour swatch
Using the panel library
USING TEXT EFFECTIVELY
Using the text tool
Adding and formatting static text
Changing font and rendering methods
Static and dynamic text
Embedded vs. device fonts
Font properties
Working with anti-aliased text
Text components in Flash
Adding Input Text fields
Embedding fonts in Input Text fields
Using font best practices
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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DAY TWO
CREATING ANIMATIONS
Working with the Timeline
Using keyframes, blank keyframes and frames
Motion tweening
Motion guide layers
Shape tweening
Creating transition effects
ACTIONSCRIPT WITH SCRIPT ASSIST AND BEHAVIOURS
Using Script Assist
Adding Actions to a frame
Creating and using button symbols
Adding behaviours to a button
Loading external SWFs
USING MOVIECLIPS FOR INTERACTIVE RICH MEDIA
Creating and using MovieClip symbols
Organising a Movie Clip timeline
Using Actions to control a timeline
Using frame labels
Responding to user interactions
ADDING SOUND AND VIDEO
Importing sounds
Changing sound properties
Adding sound to a timeline
Embedding video in a timeline
Using the FLVPlayback component
PUBLISHING FLASH DOCUMENTS
Using different publishing formats
Using publishing profiles
Adding Flash Player detection
Publishing for deployment
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Course Fee: £450 + VAT
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