flash introduction
Duration: 2 Days
For new users of Adobe Flash, this introduction course will show you how to create visually engaging rich media content using the powerful design and animation tools available in Flash.
Rich Media is regarded as the future of business communication, and Adobe Flash is leading this revolution. Those with the skills to develop visually rich and engaging content using Adobe Flash are in a position to engage, entertain and inform audiences worldwide. This course has been designed to give you those skills.
This two day course will quickly get you up and running in Adobe Flash. The course covers all the Flash basics, importing, creating and editing vector graphics and working with text as well as creating animations, building a navigational system, creating interactive elements using built-in ActionScript behaviours, incorporating sound and video and publishing and testing your Flash movies.
Course Outline
- Fundamentals
- Familiarisation with the interface
- Customising the workspace
- Creating Flash documents
- Contolling stage dimensions
- Working with panels and panel layouts
- Organising preferences
- Storyboarding
- Understanding with vector graphics
- Publishing and exporting files
- Integrating files from other programs
- Working with other graphics formats
- Using bitmap graphics
- Working with the Flash import wizard
- Working with Layers
- Organising using the Layer folder
- Using the drawing tools
- Using Object and Merge drawing
- Using the Deco tool
- Working with the colour panels
- Creating a colour swatch
- Working with libraries
- Adobe Flash Text
- Using the text tool
- Adding and formatting static text
- Changing font rendering methods
- Static and dynamic text
- Embedded and device fonts
- Font properties
- Setting anti-aliased text
- Text components in Flash
- Adding Input Text fields
- Embedding fonts in Input Text fields
- Good practice when using text in Flash movies