Flash MX 2004 Complete Training
Flash MX 2004 Training Course
Hosted by David Humes
Approx. 8 hrs. of Flash training on CD or DVD
Presented by Flash expert and Adobe Certified Expert (ACE), David Humes, this Flash training provides students with comprehensive video lessons in a step-by-step, easy to understand format. The lessons are designed to take you from start to finish, beginning with an introduction to Flash and concluding with three engaging projects titled, “Animated Greeting Card with Sound”, “Make a Preloader”, and “Animated Navigation Bar” (see details below), which will put to practice what you have learned from the course. After completing this course, you will have the knowledge needed to quickly get started creating interactive, rich media content with Flash MX 2004.
Multimedia CD-ROM & DVD Based Training:
With CD & DVD based training, the lectures were video taped and then digitized and are presented to you in Full Motion Video, Audio, & Graphics. DVD-ROMs will run only on a computer DVD Drive and will not run on a TV DVD Player. DVD-Video will run on both a computer DVD Drive and a TV DVD Player.
System Requirements: 400 MHz Processor (minimum), CD-ROM Drive (for CDs), DVD Drive (for DVD-ROMs & DVD-Videos) or TV DVD Player (for DVD-Videos), 64 MB RAM, Sound Card. Available Hard Disk Space 200 MB. Windows 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, or Apple Mac.
Flash Trainer: David Humes
David is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Photoshop, a Certified Practitioner of NLP, and an expert in Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, web design, print design, Adobe InDesign, and QuarkXPress. David has conducted training seminars for Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. Army, Roche Pharmaceuticals, the training staff of ITT Technical Institute, and countless others. Since 1988, he has been involved in desktop publishing and computer graphics. His experience from presenting over 600 full-day seminars to thousands of attendees in 48 of the 50 states and throughout Canada has helped him breakdown complex concepts into language that anyone can understand.
Course Outline - Flash MX 2004 Training:
Approx. 8 hrs. of training
Level 1
Introduction to Macromedia Flash MX
Raster vs. Vector
File Types
Customizing Shortcuts
Must Know Shortcuts
What’s Possible in Flash
Using the Flash Interface
Stage and Work Area
Understanding Layers
Panels
Adjusting the Movie Properties
Cropping Your Stage
Grids and Guides
Importing Images
Raster Images (GIF, JPEG & TIF)
Vector Images (PDF, EPS, PSD, PNG)
Pros/Cons of each Image
Converting Raster Images Into Vectors
How Shapes are Different In Flash
Mixing Colors
Saving and Loading Colors
Using the Align Panel
Level Summary
Level 2
Tools
Subselection Tools
Stroke Tool Options
Free Transform Too
Ink Bottle & Paint Bucket
Erasure, Hand & Zoom Tools
Transforming Options
Creating Animation
Frame by Frame Animation
Onion Skinning
Reverse Frames
Editing Multiple Frames
Tweening
Shape Tween
Easing
Morphing Shapes
Gradients
Making Custom Gradients
Animating a Gradient
Level Summary
Level 3
Text
Single or Multiline Text
Field Options
Formatting Options
Device Fonts
Text Links
Spelling Setup and Spell Checking
Find and Replace
Morphing Text into Shapes or vice versa
Library
Intro to the Library
Bitmap Images
Editing Bitmaps
Symbols and Instances Demystified
Motion Tween
Button Symbols
Publishing Your Movie
Level Summary
Level 4
Animate Along A Path
Orient to Path
Intro to Action Scripting
Time-based
User-based
Project 1: Animated Greeting Card with Sound
Fading In and Out Flying Text
Making a Slide Show from Scratch
Sound
Make a Sound Off Button
Project 2: Make a Preloader
Multiple Scenes
Bandwidth Profiler
Project 3: Animated Navigation Bar
Level Summary
