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"Mark, I think I can say that on behalf of everyone in the class, thank you, and that this was a wonderful class, thank you for coming here to Houston, it was a pleasure to get to know you and learn so much this week...I am just glad that I could keep up... I hope that you had a good trip back and made your plane ontime." -Duane Dixon Teacher, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSVPA), TX more testimonials

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"Mark, Thanks again for a great class. Learned a lot. Glad you did the code (although I wasn't sure at first)." -Thomas Neenan., Professor, Cal State University more testimonials

 

 Adobe Authorized Flash Catalyst CS5 Training Classes

 Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Training : Level 1

			Flash Catalyst CS5 Training: Learn the cutting-edge, near-magical approach to Interactive Media design: Flash Catalyst. Working with designs and documents made in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, and more, students will learn to add interactivity and actions while sacrificing nothing in terms of design and creativity.
			Three Day Flash Catalyst CS5 Training Course 9am - 4:00pm (see SCHEDULE for pricing)	Related Classes: Flash | Level 1 Flash | Level 2 | Actionscript Flash | Level 3 | Actionscript Dreamweaver | Level 1 Photoshop | Level 1
		We offer Flash Training in Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Orange County, San Francisco, Sacramento, Phoenix, Boston, Chicago, Austin, Dallas, Houston, New York, and many other cities throughout the country via our partner network. We also offer one-on-one, onsite and LIVE online Virtual Trainining for Flash Catalyst CS5 training nationwide.

Audience

Flash CS5: Level 1 is for students who are computer literate and that want to use it to build rich media applications that effectively use interactitivity, sound, text, graphics, and video. You must possess a working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

Flash Catalyst CS5 Training Outline

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5: Design and Development with the Creative Suite

The Flash Platform and RIA's

• Understanding the Flash family: Flash Professional, Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst
• The Flash Catalyst workspace: Design panels, Code panels and customizing workspaces
• How Flash Catalyst integrates with the rest of the CS5 family
• When to use vector and raster graphics

Web Animation Best Practices

• Migrating from print to animated websites
• Using interactivity productively without overuse
• Planning and the correct order to do things in Flash Catalyst

Wireframing Applications

• Creating Wireframe Projects from scratch
• Tool usage: Hand, Zoom, Direct Select, Drawing Tools
• Drawing and Transforming in Flash Catalyst
• Understanding and working with Layers and Blend Modes
• Running and saving projects

Comping in Illustrator & Photoshop for Flash Catalyst

• Working with the Illustrator drawing tools to develop for Flash Catalyst
• Creating images with gradients, effects and text in Illustrator
• Developing a file structure in Illustrator
• Creating images in Photoshop for Flash Catalyst
• Adding Vector Shapes in Photoshop
• Creating new projects from Illustrator and Photoshop comps
• Importing images into the artboard using the Library Panel
• Optimizing your graphics for faster downloads

Converting Images & Art to Components

• Editing, nesting, naming & reusing Components
• Working with Toggle Buttons, Text Fields and Sliders
• Converting artwork to Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, Scroll Panels & Data Lists

Adding Animation to your Project

• Creating Action Sequences and working with the Timeline
• Adding Actions: Properties Panel, setting Component States, Fading and Rotating
• Setting timing for Actions

Importing SWF's, Video & Sound

• Importing SWF's and understanding the difference between FLA and SWF files
• Controlling SWF's through action sequences
• Importing Video into Flash Catalyst and converting to FLA's
• Importing and playing sound

Building a Complete Project from Start to Finish

• Conceptualizing the flow and good design requirements
• Creating the project with navigation, search, sidebars and shopping carts
• Importing the Illustrator layout into C

Exporting to Flash Builder and the Flex Framework

• Understanding the Flex Framework and how it applies to Flash Catalyst
• The basics of programming: MXML, Actionscript 3.0, Object Oriented Programming
• Importing the project into Flash Builder
• Returning a Flash Catalyst project from Flash Builder to Flash Catalyst

Exporting Flash Catalyst Projects to Flash Player

• Exporting files as SWF's and embedding fonts
• Deploying projects to the web

View States, Data List and Live Data

• Creating new states within components
• Triggering view state changes and interactions
• Animating States and timining and transitions
• Converting images to Data Lists and configuring those lists

We offer Flash Catalyst Training classes in Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Long Beach, Sacramento, San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, Boston, New York, Las Vegas, Pennsylvania, Chicago, and many other cities throughout the country via our partner network. We also offer one-on-one or onsite Flash Catalyst training nationwide.

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