Adobe Flash - New User
Adobe Flash - New User
Course description
- Adobe Flash - New User
- This course is designed to teach delegates how to create and manipulate a wide variety of objects ranging from simple graphic designs to complex animation sequences using the Adobe Flash
Suitability - Who should attend?
- This course is intended for designers and developers who are new to Flash and want to learn how to use the application to create movies and animations
- Prerequisites
- Delegates should have a good level of PC and Windows skills, the web and its terminologies but do not need prior experience with Adobe Flash
Training Course Content
- The Flash Environment
- About vector and bitmap images
- About animation/SWF's
- The Flash interface
- Setting up a new movie
- Setting properties and preferences
- Drawing and Painting Tools
- Using the drawing/colour tools
- About overlapping objects
- Using the colour palettes
- Working with fills and strokes
- Selection/sub-selection tools
- Resizing/reshaping objects
- Using the Bezier tool
- Transforming Objects
- Multiple selections
- Copy/paste/cut/stacking
- Resize and rotate
- Aligning objects
- Flipping and skewing
- Importing Artwork
- Adding image content
- Editing images in Flash
- Converting bitmaps to vectors
- Converting images to symbols for animation
- Working with Type
- Creating/manipulating text boxes
- Device fonts
- Character/paragraph palettes
- Text options
- Static and dynamic text boxes
- Adding URL's to text
- Using Layers
- Why use layers
- Creating/deleting/naming layers
- Setting layer properties
- Changing layer order
- Symbols and Instances
- Why use symbols
- Types of symbols
- Using the library
- Creating an instance of a symbol
- Changing symbol/instance attributes
- Creating a button symbol
- Adding rollover effects
- Animating
- About the timeline
- About keyframes
- Shape tweening
- Motion tweening
- Using easing
- Using special effects
- Animating multiple layers
- Animating text
- Shape hinting
- Adding motion guides
- Adding Sounds
- Sound formats
- Importing sounds
- Using the sound library
- Applying sounds
- Modifying sounds
- Movie Clip Symbols
- Why use movie clips
- Creating a movie clip
- Adding movie clips to animations
- Converting animations to movie clips
- Publishing and Exporting
- Saving a movie
- Exporting a movie
- Publishing/publish settings
- Optimising file size