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Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Training : Level 1
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Flash CS4 Training: Our Level 1 class provides beginning students with no prior Flash experience the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create rich media ads, presentations, animation, and interactive multimedia for web and desktop. Learn about vector and bitmap graphics, tweening, frame-by-frame animation, symbols (graphic, movieClip, and Button), instance properties, instance effects, filters, motion guides, masking, and more in this fun 3 day class! |
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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 CS4 training nationwide. |
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Audience
Flash CS4: Level 1 is for students who are new to Flash (or who have used Flash only to build applications) that want to use it to build rich media applications that effectively use animation, sound, text, graphics, and video.
Flash CS4 Training Outline
Unit 1: Introducing the Course
- What is Flash?
- What is a SWF?
- About the Flash Player and plugin
- Setting up the Flash Workspace
- Organizing Panels and panel groups
- Setting up new documents
- Setting Document Properties
- The Stage and work area
- The Flash Tools panel
- The Property Inspector
- Introducing the Timeline
- Practicing with Flash drawing tools
- Learning drawing and selection tools
Unit 2: Getting Started with the Drawing Tools
- Drawing in Flash
- Working with Drawing Objects
- Adding text to your artwork
- Working with colors
- Creating gradients
- Using the Gradient Transform Tool
- Creating and saving custom colors
- Organizing and layering graphics
- Working with layers
- Arranging, locking, and hiding layers
- Transforming graphics
- The Transform panel and Free Transform too
- Setting preferences
- Identifying the development cycle
- Publishing a file
Unit 3: Creating and Importing Graphic Assets
- Creating Original Artwork in Flash
- Using Flash Tools to manipulate and create artwork
- Working with different graphic formats
- What are Bitmap Graphics?
- What are Vector Graphics?
- Importing bitmap graphics
- Importing vector graphics
- Working with layers and layer folders
- Working with the Color panel
- Creating and using Graphic Symbols
- Swapping out an imported file
- Modifying imported artwork
- Importing a layered Photoshop file
- Importing Illustrator artwork
Unit 4: Using Text Effectively
- Using the Text tool
- Adding and formatting static text
- Changing font rendering methods
- Anti-Aliasing Fonts for Readability and Animation
- Breaking Text Apart for Animation
Unit 5: Using Symbols and the Library
- What are symbols?
- Creating and Updating Symbols
- A look at the Library panel
- Converting a graphic to a symbol
- Building artwork with symbol instances
- Positioning and snapping in symbol instances
- Editing and duplicating symbols
- Editing symbols in place
- Modifying instances
- Duplicating symbols
- Adding graphics and text
- Swapping symbols
- Managing and Working with the Library
- Importing External Libraries
- Organizing symbols with folders
- Graphic Symbols vs Movie Clip Symbols
Unit 6: Advanced Tools
- Working with Onion Skinning for frame-by-frame animation
- Editing Multiple Frames
- New Flash CS4 tools for advanced drawing
- Masking Techniques
- Animated Masks
- Introducing the Deco tools
Unit 7: Creating Basic Animation
- Introducing keyframes and the Timeline
- Creating Animations using Symbols and Motion Tweens
- Tween layers and automatic keyframing
- Tweening multiple objects
- Previewing animation with Test Movie
- Animating on a motion guide
- Orienting Animations to a path
- Incorporating color effects and Transformations
- Introducing the Motion Editor
- Modifying animations using the Motion Editor
- Tweening rotation
- Morphing graphics and colors with Shape Tweens
- Legacy techniques: Creating classic tweens
- Adding color effects and scaling to a classic tween
- (Re)creating motion guides for classic tweens
- Adjusting animation with onion skinning
Unit 8: Advanced Animation
- Copying, pasting, and saving animation
- Duplicating Animations
- Using Symbols inside of symbols for
- Using Copy and Paste Motion
- Using and Creating Motion Presets
- Applying Advanced Easing Behavior
- Animating Masks
- Creating Animation with IK Poses
- Sequencing Animation
- Shifting, Moving, and Extending Tween Spans
- Rendering and Animating in 3D
- The 3D Rotation tool
- The 3D Translation tool
- Fine-Tuning Tweens with the Motion Editor
- Adding shape tweens and shape hints
- Creating Shape Hints
- Animating Color Effects
- Creating and Animating Filters (drop shadows, bevels)
Unit 9: Customizing Your Workflow
- Customizing workspace layouts
- Using Shortcuts Keys
- Managing workspaces
- Setting preferences
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Visual aids for alignment
- Rulers and guides
- Guide layers
- Advanced alignment
- Refining your aligned objects
Unit 10: Using Moving Clips
- Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
- Organizing a Movie Clip Timeline
- Using frame labels
- Responding to user interactions
Unit 11: Adding Sound and Video
- Importing sound
- Changing sound properties
- Event, Start and Streaming Sound
- Adding sound to a Timeline
- Modifying and Editing Sound
- Embedding video in a Timeline
- Using the FLVPlayback component
Unit 12: Publishing Flash Documents
- Publishing and Exporting Flash files
- Exporting to different formats
- Creating Templates
- Using publishing profiles
- The Bandwith Profiler
- Adding Flash Player detection
- Publishing for deployment
We offer Flash 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 training nationwide.
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