Course overview
This course teaches new Adobe Flash users the principles and techniques for designing beautiful Flash sites: how to lay out pages in Flash, use colour and text effectively, work with multiple image types, build navigation in Flash, make Flash usable, and incorporate sound and video.

Who should attend
To gain the most from this course, you should already have familiarity with the Windows or Mac operating system and web terminology.

Course contents

Getting Started
Basic principles of interactive design
Flash overview (windows, palettes, help menu, tutorials)
Setting movie properties
Using the workspace effectively (layers and keyframes)
Overview of ActionScript (types of actions, applying actions to objects, symbols, timeline and frames)
Previewing, testing and publishing movies
Outputting a standalone projector
Flash and HTML
Site architecture

Creating Vector Graphics
Using the drawing and painting tools
Grouping and manipulating objects
Selection tools
Creating masks
Using grids and rulers
Aligning objects
Customising and using gradients and fill

Working with Symbols
Types of symbols
Overview of graphic, button and movie clip symbol properties
Editing symbols
Nesting symbols
Converting objects to symbols
Creating rollover states with symbols
Creating buttons
Applying transparencies
Making buttons control the playhead in the timeline

Using Images in Flash
Importing and manipulating images
Importing and working with vector graphics
Loading images externally vs embedding images

Using Text Effectively
Creating text
Applying tweening to text
Masking text
Addressing anti aliasing, kerning, line length and spacing and font type
Embedded versus device fonts
Using text in bitmaps
Loading text documents

Animation and Interactivity
Overview of actions and event handlers
Frame by frame animation
Creating motion and shape tweens
Animating along a path
Morphing and fading objects
Creating an animated movie clip
Starting and stopping animation
Creating buttons
Applying rollovers and sound to buttons
Using the frame label

Importing Sound and Video
Overview of sound and video formats
Adding sound to buttons, frames and layers
Starting and stopping sound
Controlling video clips

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