Audience
Flash Catalyst: 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 without usingActionscript.
Prerequisites
- Basic Computer Skills & File Management on Windows or Mac
Flash Catalyst CS5.5 Training Outline
Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5: 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 CS5.5 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
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