Delivery Method

• Classroom
• Price: $850.00

Course Overview

The Adobe Flash Level 1 course provides novice Adobe Flash users with the hands-on instruction that will help them become competent with creating and publishing Flash documents to the web.

Delivery

Classroom

Duration

2 days (9am - 4:30pm)

Locations

• Public Schedule - Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney
• Group Bookings - All States and Territories across Australia

Prerequisites

Previous experience using applications on a PC or Macintosh is an essential prerequisite for this course. Experience using Photoshop is recommended.

Course Outline

Topic 1 The Flash Workspace

• Topic Objectives
• The Welcome Screen
• Flash’s work area
• The Tools panel
• Working with panels
• Customizing your workspace
• The context menu
• Zooming in and out
• Scrolling the view
• Flash’s preferences
• Undo, Redo, and Repeat commands
• Using the History panel
• Reverting to the last saved version
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 2 Creating and managing Flash documents

• Topic Objectives
• General Flash workflow
• About Flash files
• Creating a new Flash document
• Saving Flash documents
• Setting Document Properties
• Viewing a document when multiple documents are open
• About templates
• About Adobe Device Central
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 3 Importing, creating and transforming graphics

• Topic Objectives
• Bitmap and Vector Images
• Importing artwork into Flash
• Importing Illustrator artwork into Flash
• Importing Photoshop artwork into Flash
• About the Flash drawing models
• The Pencil tool
• Drawing straight lines
• Drawing rectangles and ovals
• Drawing ovals and rectangles
• Drawing polygons and stars
• Painting with the Brush tool
• Reshaping lines and shape outlines
• Erasing
• Selecting objects
• Moving, copying and deleting objects
• Moving or copying objects between layers
• Arranging objects
• Grouping and breaking objects apart
• Transforming objects
• Flipping objects
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 4 Working with colour, strokes, and fills

• Topic Objectives
• Working with Colour
• Strokes, fills, and gradients
• Creating or editing a solid colour
• Creating or editing a gradient fill
• Modifying colour palettes
• Applying a bitmap as a fill
• Modifying strokes with the Ink Bottle tool
• Applying solid, gradient, and bitmap fills with the Paint Bucket tool
• Transforming gradient and bitmap fills
• Copying strokes and fills with the Eyedropper tool
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 5 Symbols

• Topic Objectives
• About Symbols
• Creating symbols
• Creating instances of symbols
• Editing symbols
• Changing instance properties
• Swapping one instance for another
• Changing an instance’s type
• Copying library assets between documents
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 6 The Timeline and Layers

• Topic Objectives
• About the Timeline
• About frames and keyframes
• About layers
• Creating layers and layer folders
• Viewing layers and layer folders
• Editing layers and layer folders
• Organizing layers and layer folders
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 7 Working with text

• Topic Objectives
• Creating and editing text fields
• Setting text attributes
• Setting kerning and character position
• Setting alignment, margins, indents, and line spacing
• Text anti-aliasing
• Using device fonts
• Break text apart
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 8 Creating animation

• Topic Objectives
• Animation basics
• Creating keyframes
• Frame rates
• Editing frames and keyframes in the Timeline
• About tweened animation
• Motion tweening
• Shape tweening
• Tweening motion along a path
• Masking layers
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 9 ActionScript Basics

• Topic Objectives
• About ActionScript
• The Actions panel
• Using Script Assist to write ActionScript
• Adding actions to the Timeline
• Creating button symbols
• Enabling, editing, and testing buttons
• Using invisible buttons
• Frame labels
• Adding Actions to Buttons
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 10 Using Movie Clips

• Topic Objectives
• About nested movie clips
• Loading movie clips into empty movie clips
• Loading images into movie clips
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 11 Sound and Video

• Topic Objectives
• About sounds and Flash
• Importing sounds
• Adding a sound to the Timeline
• Adding a sound to a button
• Editing a sound
• Compressing a sound for export
• Tips for exporting sound in Flash documents
• About video features in Flash
• Importing Flash Video (FLV) files into the Library
• Embedding video in a SWF file
• About the FLVPlayback component
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Topic 12 Publishing and Optimizing

• Topic Objectives
• Optimizing Flash documents before publishing
• Optimizing colours
• Publishing Flash content
• Setting SWF publish options
• Setting HTML publish options
• Setting other publish options
• Topic Summary
• Topic Review

Classroom courses include

• Adobe Certified instructors (with min 10 yrs experience)
• Alpha prepared comprehensive coursenotes with tutorials and exercises (updated frequently to reflect industry trends)
• Certificates
• eLearning DVD Package (FREE at course registration where available, see our SPECIALS)
• After course support, unlimited HELP DESK (via email, to reinforce the learning)
• Training guarantee
• FREE repeat of public course within 6 months (where required, and on same version), see terms & conditions