Adobe Flash Essentials Skills Training

Course details

Adobe says “Flash software is the industry standard for interactive authoring and delivery of immersive experiences that present consistently across personal computers, mobile devices, and screens of virtually any size and resolution.

Create interactive experiences

Express your creative vision and attention to detail and design pixel-perfect interactive content with exceptional typography, flexible layouts, and incredibly smooth animation.”

Adobe Flash Essentials skills include:

• Drawing Tools
• Library
• Layers
• Basic Animation
• Colour
• Saving and Exporting
• Publishing

Course Aims

The course is for anyone with an interest in producing Flash animations and files. It takes participants from the beginning to being able to create and edit simple animations. It shows participants how to create basic shapes and put them into libraries.

Participants gain an understanding of the use of layers and how to place objects on them. Shape and motion tweens are used to create simple animations.

Participants also learn the importance of export formats and publishing files for use on websites and intearctive pages.

Course Syllabus

Drawing Tools

• Inserting basic shapes
• Fill effects
• Stroke effects
• Selecting objects
• Copy and duplicate

Library

• Creating symbols
• Converting to symbols
• Using the Library

Layers

• Inserting layers
• Switching layers
• Layers and scenes

Basic Animation

• Timeline
• Shape Tween
• Motion Tween
• Motion along a path

Colour

• Colour effects
• Opacity

Saving and Exporting

• Fla files
• Animated GIFs
• SWF files

Publishing

• Publishing for the Web
• Movie formats
• Flash in HTML files