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Adobe Flash CS3 Professional

 

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Training
Duration: 2 days
Adobe Flash CS3

Course Synopsis: All-new Adobe Flash Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for rich, interactive content creation. This course introduces the students to creating interactive websites, rich media advertisements, and engaging presentations. Over the two day course students will build a Flash CS3 based website with interactivity, video, components, and minimal ActionScript. Learn the fundamentals of Adobe Flash CS3 fast with a fluid workflow and best practices. This is an introductory course and no prior knowledge of Adobe Flash is necessary.

Who Should Attend:All-new Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software is the most advanced
authoring environment for rich, interactive content creation. This course introduces the students to creating interactive websites, rich media advertisements, and engaging presentations. Over the two day course students will build a Flash CS3 based website with interactivity, video, components, and minimal ActionScript. Learn the fundamentals of Adobe Flash CS3 fast with a fluid workflow and best practices. This is an introductory course and no prior knowledge of Adobe Flash is necessary.

Prerequisites: Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class.

What You Will Learn:
• Customizing Your Workspace
• Drawing and Color Basics
• Using the Timeline and Layers
• Learning the basics of Symbols and the Flash Library
• Using Filters and Blend Modes
• Animation with the Timeline in Flash CS3
• Working with Sound and Video
• Exporting and Publishing From Flash CS3

Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.

Locations: We have company-operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also work with a network of rental facilities to offer our classes regularly across the United States and in Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.

Related Courses: We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: Adobe Flash ActionScript, Adobe Illustrator CS3 and Adobe Fireworks CS3. Please take a look at the other course outlines.

Goals: Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.

Registration: Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094.


Adobe Flash CS3 Professional

 

LESSON 1
Getting Started
Creating a new document
The default workspace
Customizing your workspace
Reorganizing panels
Saving workspaces
Document tabs
Maximize mode
Finding help


LESSON 2
Drawing Essentials
Drawing tool basics
Drawing with the Pencil and Line tools
The improved Pen tool
The Quick Color tools
Drawing with shapes
Selecting content
Manipulating lines and fills
Painting with brushes
Erasing content
Understanding drawing modes


LESSON 3
Color Essentials
Using the Color Mixer
The Gradient Transform tool
Color swatches

LESSON 4
Symbols Essentials
Symbols overview
Creating and editing symbols
Nesting and breaking apart symbols
Working with buttons
Working with movie clips
Working with graphics
Using the Library
Transformation tools
Transformation panels
Transformation menus

LESSON 5
Timeline Essentials
Using layers
Adding, deleting, and grouping layers
What is a keyframe?
Using frames and keyframes
Working with multiple frames
Copying and pasting frames
Understanding scenes


LESSON 6
Testing and Publishing Your Files
Understanding document settings
Testing buttons and movie clips
Testing your movie
Publishing your movie


LESSON 7
Image Essentials
Vector vs. bitmap
Importing images and image compression
Importing Photoshop files
Importing Illustrator files
Tracing bitmaps
Breaking apart bitmaps


LESSON 8
Animation Essentials
Shape tweening
Using shape hints
Tweening gradients
Motion tweening
Copy and Paste Motion
Motion guides
Custom easing


LESSON 9
Working with Text in Flash
Controlling text appearance
Simple text effects through tweening
Adding text to a project file
Spell-checking and Find and Replace

LESSON 10
Using Filters and Blend Modes
Using filters
Special filter options
Animating filters
Adding filters to a project file
Using blend modes
Flash-specific blend modes


LESSON 11
Using Components
Components overview
Adding a UIScrollBar component
Using a Loader component


LESSON 12
Working with Sound and Video
Adding sound to the timeline
Adding basic effects to sounds
Sound sync options
Adding sound to buttons
Sound compression basics
Video Essentials
Embedding videos with the Flash Video
Encoder
Encoding external FLVs with optional cue points
Playing external videos with the FLVPlayback
component

LESSON 13
Introduction to Action Script
Overview and interface elements Frame scripts, tracing, and comments
Variable basics
Function basics
Buttons and EventListeners
Simple navigation
Scripting components

 

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