Adobe Flash Catalyst Training Courses

Flash Catalyst 101: Rookie 1
- Level: Introduction
- Duration: 2 Days
- Time: 10 AM - 5 PM
- Cost: £547 ex VAT

Adobe Flash Catalyst was created to furnish the web designers with the capability to swiftly build web interfaces and interactive content employing files developed in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and other softwares. Adobe Flash Catalyst was developed to help ease the struggles of web designers when they are faced with coding in Adobe Flash. For that reason, Adobe Flash Catalyst is rapidly being embraced by the web designers.

Adobe Flash Catalyst training courses at Academy Class were tailored for graphic designers, web designers, interactive designers, multi-media designers, application developers and video editors. We will train you on Adobe Flash Catalyst to help you promptly learn to use this new user-friendly, interactivity designing instrument. Even without former Adobe Flash experience, you will learn to quickly and effortlessly convert Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Fireworks content in to totally interactive Adobe Flash Catalyst projects without having to write any codes. Students will also learn to produce finished interactive Flash SWF files or applications.

At the end of the Adobe Flash Catalyst training courses you will be skilled at developing high quality, rich, interactive and dynamic Flash based applications, websites and games. These courses will also give you a comprehensive training on the workflows integral in the designing of Rich Interactive Applications; and you will also learn how to develop micro sties, prototypes, advertisements, etc. All our Adobe Flash Catalysts instructors are certified by Adobe.

These Adobe Flash Catalysts training courses feature in-class preparation, supportive learning environment, industry-certified trainers and up-to-date syllabus. Academy Class provides you state-of-the-art Mac and PC workstations to facilitate advanced learning.
Academy Class offers you Adobe Flash Catalyst training courses in multiple cities: London, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff, Newcastle and Birmingham. Our instructors are chosen on the basis on their capability to deliver industry related knowledge and experience to give you a rich experience in Adobe Flash Catalyst.

Academy Class provides you high quality training of Adobe Flash Catalyst and makes certain that it is a pleasure for you to attend and learn with us. We also offer you free of charge retake of the sessions, within 6 months of your first day of training, if you feel that after attending the course there’s something you’ve not quite got or would simply like to refresh what you learn.

All our classes at Academy Class begin at 10 in the morning and go on till 5 in the evening. Enroll now in one of the best Flash Catalyst, Adobe-authorised training courses!

Flash Catalyst training in the USA – Our partner in the USA, Ledet Adobe Training Centers offers Flash Catalyst training classes in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC.

Exploring the Design workspace
Preparing, Importing and Placing Artwork
Managing the Library
Managing Layers
Working with Pages and States
Creating Interactive Components
Creating Transitions and Action Sequences
Adding and Controlling Video and Sound
Integrating SWF Content from other Creative Suite Tools
Designing with Data

Level: Introduction 1
Time: 10 AM - 5 PM
Duration: 2 Days
Cost: £547 ex VAT

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Exploring the Design workspace

Moving around the workspace
Adjusting panels
Zooming and Panning the artboard
Previewing a project in a browser
Getting Flash Catalyst Help

Preparing, Importing and Placing Artwork

Preparing a design document
Choose your design application
Plan the structure of your application
Grouping complex objects
Flattening artwork with filters and effects
Naming conventions
Embedding images in the design document
Managing fonts when sharing files
Identifying duplicate component assets
Setting component properties
Creating sample artwork for a list of images or text
Hiding, showing, and locking layers
Exporting an FXG file from Adobe Fireworks
Importing artwork
Import a design document
Import additional images
Positioning images in the artboard
Optimising artwork

Managing the Library

Viewing the library panel
Previewing files in the Library panel
Deleting assets from the project
Compressing images in the Library panel
Renaming project assets
Using assets in the Library panel
Sharing project libraries
Exporting and importing a library package

Managing Layers

Exploring the Layers panel
Expand and collapse layers
Show, hide, lock and unlock layers
Grouping objects
Renaming objects in the Layers panel
Optimizing complex groups
Adding and deleting layers
Stacking artwork using layers

Working with Pages and States

Page and component states
Duplicating and modifying page states
Descriptive names for page states
Show and hide artwork in each page state
Adding and deleting states
Add a blank page state
Add objects to blank page states
Delete objects from specific states

Creating Interactive Components

The building blocks of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)
Components and Interactions
Using wireframe components
Add and modify wireframe buttons and text input fields
Add wireframe scroll bars
Converting artwork to built-in components and buttons
Create a reusable navigation button
Enable and disable buttons
Create next and previous buttons
Create a custom toggle button
Convert artwork to scroll bars
Working with text
Create a scroll panel from artwork
Creating custom components
Adding interactivity and page navigation
Create conditional interactions
Link to external content

Creating Transitions and Action Sequences

Understanding transitions and action sequences
Inspecting default transition effects
Adding smooth transitions
Fine-tuning transitions
Change transition timing
Ease transitions
Adding and changing effects
Swap one effect for another
Add multiple effects to the same object
Add an action sequence interaction
Edit an action sequence in the Timeline
Flash Catalyst helper effects

Adding and Controlling Video and Sound

Preparing video for the web
Understanding encoding and video codes
How to encode video
Importing and previewing video and sound
Adding video to an application
Add video to the artboard
Set video player properties
Controlling video playback
Attach controls to the video
Reset the video after playing
Adding sound effects

Integrating SWF Content from other Creative Suite Tools

Understanding SWF files
Creating and using SWF files for Flash Catalyst
Import a SWF file to the artboard
Preview a SWF animation
Controlling the playback of SWF files
Play the SWF movie from a specific frame
Adding a SWF file to a component
Position a SWF file
Add effects to play the animation

Designing with Data

Flash Catalyst data lists
Understanding design-time data
Preview a data list
Creating a Data List component
Design a sample data record
Convert the sample record into a Data List component

The academy class guarantee

Did you know that Academy Class is also 100% committed to ensuring you understand the concepts we teach in all our classroom-based courses and that you have met the course objectives?

We understand that you rely on us to get a good grasp the key concepts taught in our training. We also realise that if you don’t fully understand the content when you leave, the money and time you’d spend repeating the same course is a cost your business could do without.

We believe that our high-quality training courses will meet and exceed your expectations and enable you learn the concepts you need to know, first time. And we want you to be confident that we’ll support you through your learning experience by proving our commitment to delivering a high-quality & easily-understood course.

That’s why we’ve introduced the Academy Class Guarantee.

Here’s how it works

We make an upfront commitment to you that you’ll be comfortable with what you learn in our classes.

If you don’t feel that you’ve grasped the concepts and can put the training into practice, we invite you to repeat the same course within a six-month period absolutely free of charge*.

Academy Class’s Guarantee, means you can rest assured that if you’re still uncertain about what you’ve learned, you can come back free of charge* and sit the class again. It’s that simple.

*Academy Class Guarantee Terms and Conditions

Guarantee offer is only made to the original person attending a Academy Class classroom training course and is not transferable.

Attendees returning for a repeat sitting of a course must bring their original manual and materials for use on the day.

Bookings for a repeat sitting of a classroom course must be made via the Academy Class Hotline 0800 043 8889 and are subject to availability.

Guarantee offer is valid for 6 months from the date of the original classroom course, after which date it becomes null and void.

Offer is only applicable for one repeat sitting of the same course originally attended.

Cancellation of Course - Academy Class reserves the right to cancel at its sole discretion any particular course. In the event that a specific course is cancelled then participants

enrolled in that course will be transferred to the next available course and notified by Academy Class of the change.

Students should be aware that there is always a chance that they will be “bumped” into the next class if it were to fill up with paying students. Even if you are bumped, we do guarantee that you will be afforded 1 refresher of your training class.

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