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Adobe Flash CS4: Introduction for Beginners

Course Code: FCS4RCC      Days: 2
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Course Overview

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 users. With powerful ActionScripting tools and seamless integration with Photoshop and Illustrator, 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 Adobe Flash quickly and easily. This course covers 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.

Audience

This course has been classified as IT Technical Training.

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.

Course Outline

DAY ONE

Flash essentials

  • The Adobe Flash interface
  • Customising the interface
  • Creating a new Flash document
  • Setting stage dimensions
  • Working with panels and panel layouts
  • Custom panel sets
  • Setting preferences
  • Identifying the development cycle
  • Testing a file

Vectors and bitmaps

  • Object and shape draw modes
  • Vector draw tools
  • Alignment
  • Rules, guides and grid
  • Working with layers
  • Masking techniques
  • Gradient colours
  • Importing and saving swatches
  • Deco tool and custom presets
  • Importing bitmaps
  • Importing from Photoshop and Illustrator

Using text effectively

  • Using the text tool
  • Adding and formatting static text
  • Anti-alias options
  • Font properties
  • Breaking text apart
  • Text effects and filters
  • Text masks
  • Static, input and dynamic text
  • Embedded vs device fonts

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DAY TWO

Creating animations

  • Working with the Timeline
  • Using keyframes, blank keyframes and frames
  • Cell animation
  • Shape tweens
  • Classic tweens
  • Classic motion guides
  • Motion tweens
  • Easing
  • Motion presets

Motion editor essentials

  • Custom eases
  • Symbols: graphic, MovieClip and button
  • Library best practice
  • The 3D rotation tool
  • The 3D translation tool
  • Understanding Inverse Kinematics using the Bone tool

Adding sound and video

  • Importing sound
  • Changing sound properties
  • Adding sound to a timeline
  • Embedding video in a timeline
  • Using the FLVPlayback component

Interactivity

  • About ActionScript
  • Applying Actions with ScriptAssist
  • Frame labels
  • Create linear navigation
  • Loading external SWF's

Publishing Flash documents

  • Using different publishing formats
  • Using publishing profiles
  • Adding Flash Player detection
  • Publishing for deployment
  • Adobe Device Central

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