Publisher: Adobe

Version: CS5
Length: 2 day s
Course-ID: SX697LAM

Course Overview

A website can be made to look more impressive and inviting with interactive graphics and animations. Using the Flash workspace you will manage documnents, manipulate artwork, work with symbols and assets and create animations with text, images, sound and video.

Course Objective

You will create and manipulate a wide variety of objects ranging from simple graphic designs to complex animation sequences using the Adobe Flash CS5 application.

Target student

This course is intended for designers and developers who are new to Flash CS5.

Prerequisites

To gain the most from this class, students should be familiar with the Windows environment, be familiar with the web and its terminologies and also have a basic frame of reference for graphic and design applications.


The Flash Workspace
  • Flash workflow and workspace
  • The Stage and Tools panel
  • Introducing the Timeline
  • The Flash panels
  • Undo, redo, and history
  • Working with ConnectNow
Managing documents
  • Working with Flash documents.
  • Create and Save Flash documents
  • Printing
  • Projects
  • Templates
Importing artwork
  • Placing artwork into Flash
  • Bitmaps
  • Working other Adobe file formats
Creating and Editing Artwork
  • Drawing
  • Reshaping objects
  • Duplicating, arranging, and deleting artwork
  • Colours, gradients, and strokes
  • D graphics
Symbols, instances, and library assets
  • Working with symbolsand symbol instances
  • The Flash library
  • Sharing library assets
  • Buttons, graphics and Movies
  • Scaling and caching symbols
  • Symbols and ActionScript
Timelines and Animation
  • Working with timelines
  • Working with scenes
  • Timelines and ActionScript
  • Motion tweens
  • Working with classic tweens
  • Shape tweens
  • Frame-by-frame animation
  • Mask layers
Filters and Blends
  • Working with filters
  • Applying filters and blend modes
Text
  • Working with Text Layout Framework (TLF) text
  • Working with classic text
  • Setting classic text attributes
  • Embedding fonts
  • Multilanguage text
  • XML file format for Multilanguage text
  • Multilanguage text and ActionScript
Sound
  • Using sounds in Flash
  • Exporting Sounds
  • Sound and ActionScript
Video
  • Creating video for use in Flash
  • Adding and embedding video to Flash
  • Working with video cue points
  • Controlling external video playback with ActionScript
  • Export QuickTime video files
Accessible content
  • Accessibility information and options for screen readers
  • Creating accessibility with ActionScript
ActionScript Basics
  • Working with ActionScript
  • Interactivity with code snippets
  • Script Assist mode and behaviours
  • Writing and managing scripts
  • Debugging ActionScript
  • Printing at runtime
  • ActionScript publish settings
Publishing and Exporting
  • Publishing Flash documents
  • Publish settings
  • Publishing for Adobe AIR
  • Packaging applications for the iPhone
  • HTML publishing templates
  • Exporting Images and Graphics
  • Exporting video and sound