Duration: 2 Days
ADOBE FLASH INTRODUCTION
Objectives
This course introduces delegates to creating interactive websites, rich media advertisements and engaging presentations. Delegates will build a Flash based website with interactivity, video, components and minimal ActionScript.
Module 1: An Introduction to the Flash Interface
- Creating a new document
- The default workspace
- Customising your workspace
- Saving workspaces
- Reorganising panels
- Document tabs
Module 2: Drawing Essentials
- Drawing tool basics
- Drawing with the Pencil and Line Tools
- The improved Pen Tool
- The Quick Colour Tools
- Drawing with Shapes
- Selecting Content
- Manipulating Lines and Fills
- Painting with Brushes, Erasing Content
- Understanding Drawing Modes
Module 3: Colour Essentials
- Using the Colour Mixer
- Colour Swatches
- The Gradient Transform Tool
Module 4: Symbols Essentials
- Creating and Editing Symbols
- Using the Library
- Nesting and Breaking apart Symbols
- Working with Buttons, Movie Clips & Graphics
- Transformation Tools
- Panels and Menus
Module 5: Timeline Essentials
- Using, Adding, deleting and grouping Layers
- Using Frames and Keyframes
- Copying and pasting Frames
- Multiple Frames
- Understanding Scenes
Module 6: Testing & Publishing your Files
- Understanding Document Settings
- Testing Buttons and Movie Clips
- Testing & Publishing your Movie
Module 7: Image Essentials
- Vector v.Bitmap
- Tracing & Breaking apart Bitmaps
- Importing images and image compression
- Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files
Module 8: Animation Essentials
- Shape Tweening and Motion Tweening
- Using shape hints
- Tweening gradients
- Copy and Paste Motion
- Motion Guides and Custom easing
Module 9: Working with Text in Flash
- Controlling text appearance
- Simple text effects through Tweening
- Adding text to a project file
- Spell-checking
- Find and Replace
Module 10: Using Filters and Blend Modes
- Using filters
- Special filter options
- Animating filters
- Adding filters to a project file
- Using blend modes
- Flash specific blend modes
Module 11: Using Components
- Components overview
- Adding a UIScrollBar component
- Using a Loader component
Module 12: Working with Sound and Video
- Adding sound to the Timeline
- Adding basic effects to sounds
- Sound sync options
- Adding sound to buttons
- Video Essentials
- Sounds compression basics
- Embedding videos with the Flash Video Encoder
- Encoding external FLVs with optional cue points
- Playing external videos with FLV-playback
Module 13: Introduction to ActionScript
- Overview and interface elements
- Frame scripts tracing and comments
- Variable basics
- Function basics
- Buttons and Event Listeners
- Simple Navigation
- Scripting components
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