A Note About CS5
If you have a previous version of the software, don't worry! Although we're teaching Adobe® Creative Suite® 5, our instructors will point out which features are new and which aren't.
So whether you're using CS5 or its predecessors, our classes will meet your needs.
Class Description
prerequisites
If you are completely new to Flash and its drawing and animation concepts, you should get familiar with the basics in our Flash Overview.
Flash is many things. With it, one can build interfaces for Rich Internet Applications or make cartoons—the range is startling, and that of its users more so. In this class, we try to expose you to much of this breadth and depth.
Flash CS5 Essentials Outline:
- What's New:
- Flash CS4 vs. CS5
- Interface Basics:
- Document Window/Properties
- Timeline
- Motion Editor
- Layers/Layer Types
- Edit Bar
- Toolbar
- Panels
- Workspaces
- Library
- Drawing & Color Tools:
- Lines, strokes & fills
- Modifying strokes & fills
- Shape tools
- Object drawing & grouping
- Using, creating & modifying gradients
- Working with the Pen Tool
- Working with 3D tools
- Deco tool
- Inverse Kinematics:
- Understanding & working with the Bone tool
- Creating puppets with the Bone tool
- Animation/Timeline Basics:
- Frame rates
- Working with the timeline
- Creating Symbols
- Frame-by-frame animation
- Motion Tweening
- Motion Guides
- Fine tuning animation with the Motion Editor
- Shapes Tweening
- Using Masks
- Layer properties
- Creative Suite Integration:
- importing Photoshop files
- importing Illustrator files
- importing InDesign files
- using Flash Builder as your primary ActionScript editor
- Filters & Effects:
- Working with filters
- Working with blend modes
- Using timeline effects
- Importing, compressing & working with bitmaps
- Animating bitmaps
- Converting bitmaps to vectors
- Working with Symbols:
- Symbol types
- Creating and working with buttons
- Creating animated buttons
- Creating and working with movie clips
- Working with Text:
- Creating, modifying & formatting text
- Working with Static text
- Working with Dynamic text
- Working with Input text
- The new Text Layout Framework for print-quality typography
- Video:
- Video formats
- Importing Video
- Controlling Video
- Using the Flash Video Encoder
- ActionScript 2.0 & 3.0 Basics/Behaviors:
- Basic timeline control
- Button actions
- Dot syntax
- Creating a Preloader
- Publishing:
- Publishing content types
- Flash & HTML
- Creating Projectors
- Publish settings
- Optimizing movies
- SEO tips for Flash files
- publishing for iPhone