Workflow and Adobe Integration in Flash CS4

Course details

Once you understand the basics of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, it's essential that you look at ways of optimizing your workflow. Flash CS4 provides a number of features that allow you to streamline your work, speeding up the amount of time it takes to carry out tasks. Flash CS4 is part of Adobe Creative Suite 4 - a set of programs which work together to help you design for print, the Web, and mobile devices. This course explains the various ways you can optimize workflow in Flash CS4. It also demonstrates how to work with other Adobe programs, including Adobe Photoshop CS4, and Adobe Device Central CS4 - Adobe's offering for creating and publishing mobile movies. Adobe AIR integration, and the process of using XFL files in Flash are also covered.

• recognize how to set preferences and document properties in Flash CS4
• recognize how to undo, redo, and repeat actions in Flash CS4
• recognize how to share items at author time in Flash CS4
• recognize how to share items at runtime in Flash CS4
• recognize how to use the Project panel in Flash CS4
• recognize how to add metadata in Flash CS4
• recognize how to create custom templates in Flash CS4
• set preferences in a given scenario, in Flash CS4
• share given library assets at runtime in Flash CS4
• work with the Project panel in Flash CS4
• import Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files into Flash CS4
• recognize how to work with Flash CS4 files in Bridge
• recognize how to use Device Central CS4 to create mobile movies
• import files in XFL format in Flash CS4
• recognize how to use Adobe AIR with Flash CS4
• use Adobe Device Central CS4 to create a mobile movie, in a given scenario
• import files produced in other Adobe applications in Flash CS4