Flash - Introduction

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The course is designed for those wishing to produce interactive animations and presentations which can then be added to a web site. Flash provides professional animation and graphics tools for the web designer, graphic designer or multimedia developer.

Over the two days, through a series of hands-on projects, Flash will be used as a means of creating compact, fast-loading interactive web interfaces, animations, buttons, graphics and cartoons. Delegates will be exporting their Flash movies in Macromedia's Flash Player/Shockwave format ready to be incorporated into a web site.

Design and trace graphics
Create compact, fast-loading interactive web interfaces
Produce animations, buttons, and cartoons
Apply shapes, text and effects to your artwork
Export Flash movies in Shockwave format

Course Outline

Day 1

Example

AM -
Vectors vs bitmaps
Resolution issues
Vector/bitmap integration
The Flash interface
Drawing and painting tools
Using layers
Integration with other illustration packages.

PM -
Bitmap techniques
Tracing bitmaps
On-screen issues for flash graphics.
Animation techniques
Working frame by frame
Using keyframes
Motion and shape tweening
Motion guides
Colour and transparency effects

Day 2

AM -
Masking layers
Sequencing animation
Exporting in animated gif format.
Interactivity and navigational issues
Creating buttons; creating rollovers
Animated buttons
Frame actions
Using scenes
Ccreating and linking scenes
Linking with other sites using Flash

PM -
Creating a self-contained application
Creating a projector
Technical issues and RAM considerations.
Flash Player/Shockwave
Exporting Flash movies
Optimising Flash movies
Browser issues
Using publish for export
Publish settings for Shockwave, HTML and projectors

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