Adobe Flash CS6: Part 1

The target student for this course is a designer or developer who is new to Flash. The student may be a graphic designer, website developer, multimedia designer, or game designer. This course, combined with the Logical Operations Adobe® Flash® CS6: Part 2 course, covers the Adobe Rich Media Communication using Adobe Flash CS6 objectives, and is intended to help prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Associate exam.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in this course, you should be familiar with the Windows environment, have a strong sense of the Web and its terminologies, have a basic frame of reference for graphic and design applications, and have a desire to know the basic terminologies and components of ActionScript and its role as a Flash programming language. 

In this course, you will be introduced to the Adobe Flash CS6 application and interface and develop an animated website.

You will:

• Get oriented with Flash.
• Plan a Flash project.
• Create illustrations in Flash.
• Organize objects contained within a Flash project.
• Import assets into a Flash project.
• Create animations in Flash.
• Add basic ActionScript to a Flash project.

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Flash CS6

• Topic A: Identify Components of the Flash CS6 Interface
• Topic B: Identify Elements of a Flash Project
• Topic C: Customize the Flash CS6 Interface

Lesson 2: Planning a Flash Project

• Topic A: Establish Project Requirements and Documentation
• Topic B: Implement Best Practices in Rich Media Design

Lesson 3: Creating Illustrations in Flash

• Topic A: Start a New Project
• Topic B: Draw Basic Shapes
• Topic C: Draw Advanced Shapes
• Topic D: Add Static Text

Lesson 4: Organizing the Project

• Topic A: Use Folders to Organize the Library
• Topic B: Use Symbols to Organize for Reuse
• Topic C: Use Layers to Create Visual Depth

Lesson 5: Importing Assets into Flash

• Topic A: Use Copyrighted Material
• Topic B: Import Bitmap and Vector Images
• Topic C: Optimize Bitmap Images for Flash

Lesson 6: Creating Animation

• Topic A: Create Frame-by-Frame Animation
• Topic B: Create Tweens and Embedded Animation
• Topic C: Create Motion Tween Animations
• Topic D: Animate a Mask
• Topic E: Create a Button Rollover
• Topic F: Work with Motion Paths

Lesson 7: Adding Basic ActionScript

• Topic A: Use ActionScript to Control Animation
• Topic B: Add Button Actions