Adobe Flash CS4: Introduction and Intermediate

Surrey

Leatherhead

07/04/10

£

550

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06/05/10

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Course Overview

Adobe Flash is now a web standard and the only widely distributed technology for integrating vector graphics and animation into web sites. This combination of design and animation tools is complimented by a strong development environment that allows programmers to create highly interactive database driven technologies. Adobe Flash hosts a number of exciting features, including a script editor (with a visual interface); a library interface; an Undo feature; powerful run-time effects; and breakthrough motion-graphics capabilities to name but a few.

On the Adobe Flash Introduction/Intermediate training course, you will focus on using Adobe Flash for the creation of visually attractive vector and animation based websites and page elements. We look at creating artwork in Flash as well as importing artwork and images into Flash files. We also work with text, creating navigation systems, and creating interactive elements that contain sound and video.

Skills Gained

By the end of this Adobe Flash Introduction/Intermediate training course you will have a good understanding of the core features of Flash and how to use them to create visually attractive, interactive web elements.

Prerequisites

Experience in HTML would be beneficial.

Course Outline

Introduction to Flash

• The Flash Interface
• Flash and HTML
• How Flash movies work - streaming and vectors

Flash basics

• Setting Movie properties
• Using Vector-based paint and draw tools
• Creating & editing shapes and working with shapes and elements
• Grouping elements
• Using panels and shortcuts for efficiency

Creating vector graphics

• Lines and brush strokes
• Drawing lines, rectangles and ovals
• Smoothing/straightening lines and curves
• Using grids and rules
• Aligning objects
• Using gradients and fills
• Creating and editing custom colours and fills
• Using colours to create 3d and light effects

Text

• Creating and editing text
• Breaking apart and reshaping text
• Adjusting weighting, font, style and alignment

Transformations

• Rotating, skewing, scaling and flipping
• Free Transform

Layers and Keyframes

• Locking layers and colour coding layers
• Using Mask and masked layers
• Understanding frames and keyframes

Creating simple animations

• Using the Timeline Frames and keyframes
• Using the onion skin and outline colours mode
• Frame by frame animations

More animation features

• Creating tweened animations
• Shape and motion tweening
• Creating animations along a path

Symbols and Instances

• Working with symbols
• Creating and editing symbols
• Assigning properties to instances
• Using the Edit symbol Commands
• Applying transparency to colours and gradients

Images

• Using images in Flash
• Dos and do nots when importing images

Interactivity

• Explaining actions and event-handlers
• Types of actions
• Adding actions to buttons and keyframes
• Giving control to the user
• Making interactive links to other scenes and
• URLs

Sound

• Importing sound
• Adding sound to a scene and adding sound to buttons
• Synchronising sound

Testing and Publishing

• Using the bandwidth profiler
• Streaming and streamlining your movie
• Using the Publish command