Adobe Flash Introduction/Intermediate Syllabus
This course is designed for delegates who want to learn how to
use Adobe Flash effectively.
If the course syllabus does not entirely match your requirements, please contact us
as we are able to customise it to your needs.
This course has a duration of 2 days.
Introduction to Flash
The Flash Interface
Flash and HTML
How Flash movies work - streaming and vectors
Flash basics
Setting Movie properties
Using Vector-based paint and draw tools
Creating & editing shapes and working with shapes and elements
Grouping elements
Using panels and shortcuts for efficiency
Creating vector graphics
Lines and brush strokes
Drawing lines, rectangles and ovals
Smoothing/straightening lines and curves
Using grids and rules
Aligning objects
Using gradients and fills
Creating and editing custom colours and fills
Using colours to create 3d and light effects
Text
Creating and editing text
Breaking apart and reshaping text
Adjusting weighting, font, style and alignment
Transformations
Rotating, skewing, scaling and flipping
Free Transform
Layers and Keyframes
Locking layers and colour coding layers
Using Mask and masked layers
Understanding frames and keyframes
Creating simple animations
Using the Timeline Frames and keyframes
Using the onion skin and outline colours mode
Frame by frame animations
More animation features
Creating tweened animations
Shape and motion tweening
Creating animations along a path
Symbols and Instances
Working with symbols
Creating and editing symbols
Assigning properties to instances
Using the Edit symbol Commands
Applying transparency to colours and gradients
Images
Using images in Flash
Dos and do nots when importing images
Interactivity
Explaining actions and event-handlers
Types of actions
Adding actions to buttons and keyframes
Giving control to the user
Making interactive links to other scenes and URLs
Sound
Importing sound
Adding sound to a scene and adding sound to buttons
Synchronising sound
Testing and Publishing
Using the bandwidth profiler
Streaming and streamlining your movie
Using the Publish command
