Adobe Flash CS4 - Rich Content Creation

This course is designed for new users of Adobe Flash CS4 who wish to create visually engaging rich media content using the powerful design and animation tools available in Flash.

Course Objective
To learn the skills to develop visually rich and engaging web content using Adobe Flash CS4.

This extremely popular two-day course has proved to be the most effective way of getting up and running in Adobe Flash quickly and easily. The course covers all the Flash basics, importing, creating and editing vector graphics and working with text as well as creating animations, building a navigational system, creating interactive elements using built-in ActionScript behaviours, incorporating sound and video and publishing and testing your Flash movies.
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DAY ONE Introducing the Course • About the course • Course objectives Learning the Basics • Introducing Flash • Using the Flash interface • Creating a new Flash document Creating Graphics • Importing graphics • Layering Flash elements • Organizing content in layer folders • Creating graphics • Using the natural drawing tools • Using colour effectively • Creating a colour swatch • Reusing graphics as symbols

Using Text Effectively • Using the Text tool • Creating input, static, and dynamic text fields • Using embedded or device fonts • Manipulating font properties • Building forms in Flash • Using the text property to populate fields • Anti-aliasing text • Using text components in Flash DAY TWO Creating Animation • Introducing animation • Creating frame-by-frame animations • Creating motion tweens • Editing animation paths • Creating shape tweens • Adding Timeline effects • Creating and animating masks • Using the 'Bone' and 3D tools

Building a Navigational System • Creating buttons • Adding behaviours to buttons • Creating MovieClips • Using a MovieClip as a wrapper • Dividing files into multiple SWFs • Loading a SWF into a MovieClip Using MovieClips for Interactive Rich Media • Using MovieClip events • Structuring applications using nested symbols • Building a MovieClip with different states • Using the Timeline for application states Adding Sound and Video • Importing sounds • Using behaviours to load sounds • Adding video • Using the Flash video components Publishing • Publishing Flash for web use • Using Flash and HTML together