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Flash Professional CS6 Essential Training

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Animation Courses Inverse Kinematics Courses

Course Description

Overview

Provides a solid foundation in Flash Professional CS6 and shows how to create an assortment of Flash content.

Syllabus

Adobe Flash Professional
  • What is Flash?
Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • Setting up local file permissions
1. How Flash Professional Fits In
  • Flash for desktop web browsers
  • Flash for desktop apps
  • Flash for mobile apps
  • Understanding how ActionScript fits into Flash
2. Introduction to the Flash Interface
  • Choosing the type of document to work with
  • Getting to know the Flash interface
  • Working with panels and workspaces
  • Understanding document orientation and guides
  • Zooming and moving around
3. Importing Graphics
  • Navigating in the library
  • Understanding and importing bitmaps
  • Understanding and importing vector files
  • Using tricks and techniques for imported imagery
4. Structuring a Flash Document
  • Adjusting document settings
  • Organizing layers
  • Utilizing guide layers
  • Understand the Timeline and frame rate
  • Previewing a project
  • Defining frames and keyframes
  • Manipulating frames and keyframes
5. Drawing Basic Shapes
  • Understanding the Merge and Object Drawing modes
  • Using the Line and Pencil tools
  • Drawing with the Rectangle and Oval tools
  • Drawing with the Rectangle and Oval Primitive tools
  • Creating shapes with the PolyStar tool
  • Manipulating items with the Free Transform tool
6. Beyond Basic Shapes
  • Painting with the Deco and Spray Brush tools
  • Using the Paint Bucket and Ink Bottle tools
  • Cleaning up with the Eraser tool
  • Drawing with the Brush tool
  • Sampling color with the eyedropper
  • Using the Color and Swatches panels
  • Working with gradients and the Gradient Transform tool
  • Using the Lock Fill modifier with gradients
  • Creating shapes with the Pen tool and working with anchor points
  • Selecting with the Lasso tool
7. Symbols
  • Introducing symbols
  • Understanding movie clip symbols
  • Using graphic symbols
  • Exploring button symbols
  • Applying 3D and color transformations to symbols
  • Troubleshooting problematic selections and seeing their properties
8. Motion Tweens
  • Creating motion tweens
  • Modifying motion tweens
  • Using motion tweens in 3D space
9. Motion Tweening Tools and Techniques
  • Exploring cool tools for motion tweening
  • Exploring motion presets
  • Copying and reversing motion tweens
  • Nesting timelines
  • Using graphics vs. movie clips for animation
  • Onion skinning
  • Editing multiple frames
  • Understanding classic tweens
10. Shape Tweens
  • Building shape tweens
  • Employing shape hints
11. Inverse Kinematics
  • Defining inverse kinematics (IK) motion
  • Using the Bone tool
  • Fine-tuning IK motion
  • Integrating IK Ease, Spring, and Damping features
  • Creating runtime IK
  • Converting IK to frame-by-frame animation
12. Effects and Masks
  • Understanding blend modes
  • Applying filters
  • Setting up masks
  • Animating a mask
13. Text
  • Comparing Text Layout Framework (TLF) vs. Classic text
  • Exploring types of TLF and Classic text
  • Exploring TLF text features
  • Embedding fonts
  • Working with right-to-left fonts
14. Video
  • Using the Adobe Media Encoder
  • Integrating video
15. Audio
  • Importing and using audio
  • Affecting playback control
  • Controlling volume
  • Choosing audio compression settings
16. ActionScript
  • Understanding ActionScript and the Actions panel
  • Using code snippets to create clickable items
  • Combining clickability and timeline control
  • Troubleshooting ActionScript
17. Integrating with Other Applications
  • Integrating with Photoshop
  • Integrating with Illustrator
18. Publishing
  • Cleaning up and optimizing a file
  • Configuring SWF publish settings
  • Configuring HTML publish settings
  • Looking at other types of files you can publish
  • Using the Bandwidth Profiler
19. Creating Desktop and Mobile Applications
  • Understanding Adobe AIR
  • Publishing to desktop with AIR
  • Publishing for mobile with AIR
Conclusion
  • Where to go from here

Taught by

Anastasia McCune

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