Flash 8 Designer Training Course

Highlights of the Flash 8 Designer Training Course

• Add filter effects to projects with options like drop shadow, blur, glow, and color adjust.
• Create realism in your design by using blend modes to combine and blend two images or symbols.
• Control the velocity of animated objects with the new and improved control panel.
• Reduce the work put on your processor and help with the performance of final files with the bitmap caching for vector objects.
• Toggle to and from each library placing items from each into a main project with the advanced library function.

Flash 8 Designer Training Course Summary

This course is targeted at the beginning- to intermediate-level Web designer who needs a tool for creating powerful, compelling and highly interactive digital content for the Web. This course covers all of the objectives of Macromedia’s Flash 8 Designer Certification exam. With this course and a little extra study, you’ll be able to take and pass the test and become Flash 8 certified.

Flash 8 Designer Training Course Contents

Flash 8 for Designers: Beginner

• About this course
  • Overview of course
  • Why Use Flash 8?
  • File Types and Players
  • What's New in Flash 8
  • System Requirements
  • About the certification exam
• Program Interface
  • Quick Interface Tour
  • Timeline and Layer Controls
  • The Toolbar
  • Properties Inspector
  • Panels
  • More Panels
• Creating Simple Graphics
  • Lines, Strokes and Fills
  • Geometric Shape Tools
  • Brush Tool
  • Pencil and Line Tools
  • Object Vs Merge Drawing Models
  • Pen Tool
  • Text Tool
  • Formatting Text
• Modifying Graphics
  • Selection Tool
  • Lasso Tool
  • Sub-selection Tool
  • Converting, Removing & Adding Points
  • Editing Graphic Elements
  • Modifying Strokes and Fills
  • Creating & Modifying Gradients
  • Blends
• Symbols and Instances
  • Symbols Defined
  • Symbol Naming Conventions
  • Creating Symbols
  • The Library
  • Sharing Libraries
  • Modifying Symbol Instances
  • Setting Color Styles of Instances
  • Graphic Filters Overview & Apllying Drop Shadow Filters
  • Aplying the Bevel, Blur, and Glow Filters
• Animation Basics
  • Understanding Frames
  • Understanding the Timeline
  • Understanding Keyframes
  • Working with the Timeline
  • Setting the Frame Rate
  • Inserting and Removing Frames
  • Onion Skinning
• Recap of Beginner Level

Flash 8 for Designers: Intermediate

• Shape Tweening
  • Shape Tweening Overview
  • Shape Tweening Simple Shapes
  • Shape Tweening Lines and Fills
  • Shape Tweening Text
  • Using Shape Hints
  • Troubleshooting Broken Shape Tweens
• Motion Tweening
  • Motion Tweening Overview
  • Basic Motion Tweening
  • Animating Color and Size
  • Rotating and Spinning Animations
  • Tweening Effects
  • Motion Guide Tweening
  • Customizing Ease In/Out of Tweens
  • Tiemline Effects
• Buttons
  • Buttons States and Types
  • Button Types
  • Creating Rollover Buttons
  • Creating Invisible Buttons
  • Adding Sound to Buttons
• Movie Clips
  • Movie Clips Defined
  • Creating Movie Clips
  • Editing Movie Clips
  • Animating Buttons with Movie Clips
  • Animating Buttons with Movie Clips (conclusion)
• Text
  • Text Types
  • Text Options and Attributes
  • Text Options and Attributes pt 2
  • Static Text
  • Embedded and Device Fonts
• Sound
  • Importing Sound
  • Compressing Sound
  • Working with Sound
  • Modifying Sound Settings
  • Additonal Tips for Working with Flash Audio
• Video
  • Flash Professional 8 Video Features
  • Importing Video
  • Compression Settings
  • Editing Video with the Import Wizard
  • Encoding video with the Flash Video Encoder
• Recap of Intermediate Level

Flash 8 for Designers: Advanced

• Behaviors
  • The Behaviors Panel
  • Mouse Events
  • Working with Behaviors
  • Behaviors for Controlling Video Clips
• ActionScript Basics
  • ActionScripting Defined
  • The Actions Panel Defined
  • Controlling the Timeline Using ActionScript
  • Controlling Movie Clips Using ActionScript
  • Loading Movies into Levels
• Components and Forms
  • What are Components?
  • Creating a Form
  • Configuring Components
  • Flash Exchange
• Using Non-Flash Graphics
  • Importing Bitmaps
  • Converting Bitmaps into Vector Graphics
  • Editing Bitmaps with Flash Tools
  • Animating Bitmaps
  • Bitmap Blends
• Integration
  • Importing Editable Fireworks Content into Flash
  • Dreamweaver and Flash Integration
  • Importing Illustrator Content
  • Creating Accessible Content
• Publishing and Exporting
  • Publishing Overview
  • Creating Projectors
  • Flash Settings
  • HTML Settings
  • Printing From Flash
  • Version Detection
• Recap of Advanced Level

Flash 8 Designer Training Course Instructor: James Gonzalez

James Gonzalez is a computer applications and digital communications professor at the College of Marin, near San Francisco California, where he teaches courses in interactive media design, eLearning and Web technologies. His current professional focus is on the application of digital media in online instructional environments.

James has over 17 years of classroom teaching experience. He has spent the majority of this time designing, developing, and implementing various technology-focused instructional programs. He has taught courses nationwide on the use of digital media software and their applications in instructional environments and is the author of the best-selling Flash book, Flash 8 Professional Hands-On Training, published by Peachpit Press. James has also recently published numerous other video-based instructional courses including Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Director, Search Engine Optimization and Adobe Premiere Pro. When not teaching or writing, James provides consulting and technical services on the applications of multimedia and telecommunications technologies for training and education.