VSBT

Adobe Flash allows designers and developers to integrate video, text, audio, and graphics into immersive, rich experiences that deliver superior results for interactive marketing and presentations, e-learning, and application user interfaces. Flash is the world's most pervasive software platform, used by over one million professionals and reaching more than 97% of Internet-enabled desktops worldwide, as well as a wide range of devices.

• Introduction to Flash

• Flash vs. the free Flash Player
• Goals of this course
• Review of Course Project
• Module 1: Using Drawing Tools
• Using the Flash MX Interface
• Experiment with Drawing Tools
• Introduction to Flash MX 2004 Interface
• Vector vs. Raster Graphics
• Tools
• Panels
• Paths and Strokes
• Demo: Building an Underwater Scene
• Drawing Tips: Making Clouds
• Exercise 1: Using Drawing Tools - Draw Clouds and Balloon

• Color and Gradients

• Fills
• Closing Gaps
• Gradients
• Fill Transform Tool
• Fill Lock
• Eye Dropper / Ink Bottle
• Exercise 2: Add Color to the Scene

• Adding Text

• Size of Text Box / Text Wrapping
• Static Text vs. Dynamic Text vs. Input Text
• Using Fonts
• Exercise 3: Adding text

• Layers

• Exercise 4: Add Layers
• Importing and Manipulating External Images
• Import Images
• Trace Bitmap - Convert Bitmap to Vector Graphic
• Break Apart
• Import Colors & Save Colors
• Exercise 5: Importing Images
• Module 2: Library, Timeline and Tweening
• The Library & Graphic Symbols
• Types of Symbols
• Instances of Graphic Symbols
• Creating Symbols with "Convert to Symbol"
• Exercise 6: Using Graphic Symbols

• Timeline

• Keyframes
• Frame-by-Frame Animation
• Testing the movie
• Exercise 7: Frame-by-Frame animation - Intro Scene

• Motion Tweening

• Using Motion Tweening to Rotate an Image
• Rotate an Object while it moves!
• Exercise 8: Motion Tweening

• Motion Tweening along a Path

• Exercise 9: Motion Tweening along a Path

• Shape Tweening

• Exercise 10: Shape Tweening

• Masking

• Animating Masks
• Mask the Entire Stage
• Exercise 11: Animating a Mask
• Module 3: Movie Clips and Button Symbols
• Movie Clip Symbols
• Naming Movie Clips instances
• Exercise 12: Movie Clips

• Button Symbols

• Text Buttons - using the Hit State
• Exercise 13: Button Symbols

• Basic ActionScript

• Basic Actions
• Button Actions vs. Frame Actions
• Exercise 14: Basic ActionScript
• Module 4: Creating a Flash-based Navigation System
• Use Graphic Symbols in Movie Clip Symbols in a Button Symbol in an HTML document
• Creating a Flash-based Navigation System to use in an HTML page
• Exercise 15: Flash Navigation System for HTML site