Flash Professional CS6 Essential Training

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

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