This two day introductory course that provides designers and developers new to the Flash environment the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create rich Flash content.  

Students will produce an engaging interface using text, graphics, animations, video, and sound.  Simple user interactions are added using built in ActionScript behaviors and Script Assist.

In addition to teaching essentials, the course focuses on teaching best practices for creating Flash content.

Animation basics

The Adobe Flash CS3 screen:
Customising the workspace
Zoom and scroll
Setting up document properties

Creating objects:
Drawing tools
Strokes and fills
Gradients and the Colour window
‘Alpha’ settings for drawn objects
The other tools
Working with text
Font rendering options
Tool modifiers
Importing from Illustrator

Introducing the Timeline
Working with layers
Key frames vs. Normal frames

Working with images:
Adding imported images
Converting images to vector
Adding a motion tween to an image
Alpha, brightness, tint and more

Creating animations:
‘Shape’ tweens
‘Motion’ tweens
Object Guide Paths
Masks
Creating an animation with drawn objects
Creating a photo-montage animation
Publishing a movie
Preview options

Day 2:

Building a Flash website

Using the Library
Graphic, movie clip and button symbols
Creating a movie Preloader
Using the ‘Align’ tools

Adding the movie components:
Creating a Template
Adding Scenes to a movie
Adding custom page elements
Adding action script to scenes
Creating button graphics
Adding interactivity to buttons
Email and URL links
Adding sounds to buttons and layers

Placing the movie into Dreamweaver
Adding Flash Video

This course is for beginners: designers and developers new to Flash who want to learn the interface and commonly used features. To gain the most from this class, students should:

Be familiar with Windows or Mac OS X

Be familiar with the web and its terminology

This course is for anyone who wants to learn Flash

• Create an Adobe Flash Document
• Set up a Adobe Flash document
• Import and create graphics
• Use Adobe Flash drawing tools
• Create and use symbols
• Produce Motion and Shape animations
• Import Sound and Video
• Use Scipt Assist and Behaviors to add simple interactivity
• Publish an Adobe Flash Document in one of several formats

Dreamweaver CS3 - Web Development - Introduction

Fireworks CS3 - Web Graphic Creation

Flash CS3 - ActionScript

Flash CS3 - Advanced Actionscript

Flash CS3 - Video Development

Flash Lite 2 - Mobile Application Development

Illustrator CS3 - MasterClass