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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 CS6 Essentials Outline:
Navin was extremely knowledgeable and generous with his knowledge. We covered more material than I could have hoped for.
- Flash Essentials student
- What's New:
- Flash CS5 vs. CS6
- 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 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
Flash CS6 Essentials—two days— $525
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- Bring home your work...
- Bring home your class files so you can practice what you learn with us. These training files often contain valuable tips and procedures, as well as what you may have created during class. Whether you want to show off the images from your photography class, the chapter you built in your InDesign training class, or you want to explore those features we covered in your Illustrator training class, or perhaps you want to post the site you built in your Dreamweaver training class, you'll have the resources to review and cherish your hard work..
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- All of our computers can run your operating system of choice.
- Small class sizes—by design...
- We pride ourselves on our ability to tailor training examples and emphases on the fly. Since we strictly limit class size, you will not be just another head to count, but rather a learner with whom we're communicating.
- Carefully crafted curricula...
- Constantly updated and refined, and never canned. Here, you'll never be subjected to a mass-produced workbook that is geared for the lowest common denominator. Instead, each class exercise is evaluated and tweaked to be effective and often fun.
We teach the bulk of the Adobe Creative Suite, but that's not the whole story. We also teach classes in photographic workflows, and several classes on "the basics" to get you started in web or desktop publishing. And since we have intentionally small class sizes, we can adapt a course's curriculum on the fly to accommodate that day's attendees. We teach people, not workstations. - Convenient & comfortable location...
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