Flash Masterclass Training

Adobe Flash Masterclass is the industry standard for delivering rich graphic content over the web incorporating animation, sound and user interactivity.

Flash has evolved to satisfy the need for web designers to create ever more complex and visually engaging content whilst maintaining an efficient and effective download capability.

This One day website design training course will introduce delegates to the main features in Flash including vector graphics, interactivity, animation, video and publishing Flash movies into an HTML page.

Outline:

• Introduction to Flash
• The Flash Interface
• Flash and HTML
• How Flash movies work - streaming and vectors
• Finding your way around Flash
• What Flash can and can't do
• 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
• and more