Adobe Flash
ADOBE FLASH
INTRODUCTION COURSE
Prerequisites:
Attendees should be familiar with a PC and the Windows environment and posses basic keyboard skills.
Duration:
This course is a one day course.
An Introduction to the Flash Interface
- Creating a new document
- The default workspace and
- Customising and saving your workspace
- Reorganising panels
- Document tabs
Drawing Essentials
- Drawing tool basics
- Drawing with the Pencil and Line Tools
- The improved Pen Tool and Quick Colour Tools
Colour Tools
- Drawing with Shapes
- Selecting Content
- Manipulating Lines and Fills
- Painting with Brushes, Erasing Content
- Understanding Drawing Modes
Colour Essentials
- Using the Colour Mixer
- Colour Swatches
- The Gradient Transform Tool
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
Timeline Essentials
- Using, Adding, deleting and grouping Layers
- Using Frames and Keyframes, Copying and pasting Frames
- Multiple Frames and Understanding Scenes
Testing & Publishing your Files
- Understanding Document Settings
- Testing Buttons and Movie Clips
- Testing & Publishing your Movie
ADOBE FLASH
INTERMEDIATE COURSE
Prerequisites:
Attendees should have attended, or have knowledge equivalent to the Introductory Level course.
Duration:
This course is a one day course.
Image Essentials
- Vector v.Bitmap
- Tracing & Breaking apart Bitmaps
- Importing images and image compression
- Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files
Animation Essentials
- Shape Tweening and Motion Tweening
- Using shape hints
- Tweening gradients
- Copy and Paste Motion
- Motion Guides and Custom easing
Working with Text in Flash
- Controlling text appearance
- Simple text effects through Tweening
- Adding text to a project file
- Spell-checking
- Find and Replace
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
Using Components
- Components overview
- Adding a UIScrollBar component
- Using a Loader component
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
Introduction to ActionScript
- Overview and interface elements
- Frame scripts tracing and comments
- Variable basics
- Function basics
- Buttons and Event Listeners
- Simple Navigation
- Scripting components
ADOBE FLASH
ADVANCED COURSE
Prerequisites:
Attendees should have attended, or have knowledge equivalent to the Introductory & Intermediate Level courses.
Duration:
This course is a one day course.
Working with Graphics
- Understanding the Object Drawing Model
- Using Gradients
- Using Strokes
- Using Scale
- Understanding Filters
- Understanding Blend Modes
Importing Content Using XML
- Reviewing the Text Controls
- Static, Dynamic, Input
- Understanding XML
- Introducing the XML Class
- Retrieving Text Nodes
- Parsing XML Data into Flash Data
Working with Text
- Introducing Anti-Alias Rendering
- Using the TextFormat Object for Styles
- Using Cascading Styles Sheets with text
Advanced Graphic Loading
- Loading JPG/GIF/PNG formats with AS
- MovieClip Loader
- Image Caching (issues/benefits)
- Attaching movie clips dynamically
- Creating a pre-loader
- Displaying Random Images
- Creating Position-Aware Elements
- Build out grid of images
- Load in the popUp Image
Reviewing Animation Basics with ActionScript
- Reviewing Animation on the Timeline
- Introducing Custom Easing
- Masking with ActionScript
- Animating with ActionScript
- Organising a Movie Clip timeline
- Using setInterval
- Understanding Bitmap Caching