Adobe Flash CS4 Curriculum Outline
Introduction to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
Overview/Description
Adobe Flash Professional CS4 is one of the most popular interactive multimedia development tools on the market, providing design professionals with the ability to create engaging experiences, ranging from instructional media and games to entire web sites. Flash Professional CS4 includes an updated interface that is consistent with the user-interface (UI) design of other Adobe Creative Suite products such as Adobe Photoshop. This course demonstrates how to get started in Flash Professional CS4, providing a comprehensive introduction to the updated Flash environment. It introduces the learner to methods of creating graphics, explains how to plan Flash projects, and demonstrates how to use the core interface regions – the stage, timeline, and layers.
Target Audience
This course targets a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Learners are expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
2.0
Lesson Objectives
Introduction to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
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Drawing and Working with Images in Flash CS4
Overview/Description
Flash CS4 Professional provides a range of tools that can be used to create impressive graphics and illustrations for your movies. Drawing in the Flash environment produces vector graphics – artwork made from straight or curved lines with clean edges – that allow you to scale drawings without lowering the quality of the overall illustration. You can also import and manipulate bitmap images including JPEGs and PNGs. In addition, Flash CS4 Professional provides improved integration with the other Adobe design tools, including Illustrator and Photoshop. This course introduces the learner to drawing in Flash. It demonstrates how to use the drawing tools, give 2D objects a 3D appearance, and how to import, manipulate, and optimize graphics.
Target Audience
A range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
2.5
Lesson Objectives
Drawing and Working with Images in Flash CS4
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Using Flash CS4 Libraries, Text, and Components
Overview/Description
In the world of digital design, it is common knowledge that interactive and engaging applications require attractive graphics, but there is also a need for the often-neglected supporting character in Flash applications – the text. The effective and balanced presentation of text is an essential element of most interactive applications. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional can be used to create static text content such as page titles or form labels, as well as text that is loaded into a Flash movie dynamically. This course provides an introduction to creating text in Flash CS4 Professional. It outlines the considerations for using fonts and demonstrates how to create the different types of text fields. It also describes the fundamental concepts of converting images into reusable symbols, and storing those symbols in libraries. The basic components used to build web forms are also explained and demonstrated, providing the learner with an introduction to creating forms in Flash.
Target Audience
A range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
3.0
Lesson Objectives
Using Flash CS4 Libraries, Text, and Components
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Animation in Flash CS4
Overview/Description
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional is a powerful application for creating and editing dynamic vector-based animations. Its versatile workspace and toolset enable developers to quickly create animations that can be used in a wide variety of contexts. This course introduces the learner to animating in Flash. It explores how to create multiple types of animation including inverse kinematics, frame-by-frame animation, and an improved method of creating motion tweens. Advanced animation topics such as masking and using motion presets and the Motion Editor are also covered.
Target Audience
This course targets a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Learners are expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
2.5
Lesson Objectives
Animation in Flash CS4
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ActionScript and Multimedia in Flash CS4
Overview/Description
ActionScript, a scripting language used to manipulate Flash movies, is at the heart of creating interactivity in your movies. Gaining a grasp of ActionScript is essential if you want to produce highly interactive user experiences. This, coupled with an ability to integrate sound and video into Flash, will give your movies an interactive edge! This course provides an introduction to using ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS4. It also explains and demonstrates how to incorporate sound and video into your movies.
Target Audience
This course targets a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Learners are expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
2.0
Lesson Objectives
ActionScript and Multimedia in Flash CS4
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Workflow and Adobe Integration in Flash CS4
Overview/Description
Once you understand the basics of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, its essential that you look at ways of optimizing your workflow. Flash CS4 provides a number of features that allow you to streamline your work, speeding up the amount of time it takes to carry out tasks. Flash CS4 is part of Adobe Creative Suite 4 - a set of programs which work together to help you design for print, the Web, and mobile devices. This course explains the various ways you can optimize workflow in Flash CS4. It also demonstrates how to work with other Adobe programs, including Adobe Photoshop CS4, and Adobe Device Central CS4 - Adobes offering for creating and publishing mobile movies. Adobe AIR integration, and the process of using XFL files in Flash are also covered.
Target Audience
This course targets a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Learners are expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
2.0
Lesson Objectives
Workflow and Adobe Integration in Flash CS4
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Creating Navigation and Publishing Movies in Flash CS4
Overview/Description
Creating intuitive and easy-to-use web site navigation is key to good web design. Using Flash Professional CS4, you can create effective web site navigation that allows users to easily find the information theyre looking for. The final stages in the design process involve testing and publishing your application, ensuring that its functionality is free from errors. This course demonstrates how to create navigation within a Flash CS4 movie. It outlines how to structure web content into multiple Flash SWF files, which has many benefits including decreased download time. The course explains how to fully test and preview your movie, as well as publish it and integrate it with HTML.
Target Audience
This course targets a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Learners are expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
1.5
Lesson Objectives
Creating Navigation and Publishing Movies in Flash CS4
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Adobe Flash CS5 Curriculum Outline
Introduction to Adobe Flash Professional CS5
Overview/Description
Adobe Flash Professional CS5 is one of the most popular interactive multimedia development tools on the market, providing design professionals with the ability to create engaging experiences, ranging from instructional media and games to entire web sites. Flash Professional CS5 includes an updated interface that is consistent with the user-interface (UI) design of other Adobe Creative Suite products such as Adobe Photoshop. This course demonstrates how to get started in Flash Professional CS5, providing a comprehensive introduction to the updated Flash environment. It introduces the learner to methods of creating graphics, explains how to plan Flash projects, and demonstrates how to use the core interface areas such as the stage, timeline, and layers.
Target Audience
This course targets a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Learners are expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
1.5
Lesson Objectives
Introduction to Adobe Flash Professional CS5
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Drawing and Working with Images in Flash CS5
Overview/Description
Flash Professional CS5 provides a range of tools that can be used to create impressive graphics and illustrations for your movies. Drawing in the Flash environment produces vector graphics – artwork made from straight or curved lines with clean edges – that allow you to scale drawings without lowering the quality of the overall illustration. You can also import and manipulate bitmap images including JPEGs and PNGs. In addition, Flash Professional CS5 provides improved integration with the other Adobe design tools, including Illustrator and Photoshop. This course introduces the learner to drawing in Flash. It demonstrates how to use the drawing tools, give 2D objects a 3D appearance, and how to import, manipulate, and optimize graphics.
Target Audience
A range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
3.0
Lesson Objectives
Drawing and Working with Images in Flash CS5
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Using Flash CS5 Libraries, Text, and Components
Overview/Description
In the world of digital design, it is common knowledge that interactive and engaging applications require attractive graphics, but there is also a need for the often-neglected supporting character in Flash applications - the text. The effective and balanced presentation of text is an essential element of most interactive applications. Adobe Flash Professional CS5 can be used to create static text content such as page titles or form labels, as well as text that is loaded into a Flash movie dynamically. This course provides an introduction to creating text in Flash Professional CS5. It outlines the considerations for using fonts and demonstrates how to create the different types of text fields. It also describes the fundamental concepts of converting images into reusable symbols, and storing those symbols in libraries. The basic components used to build web forms are also explained and demonstrated, providing the learner with an introduction to creating forms in Flash.
Target Audience
A range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
3.0
Lesson Objectives
Using Flash CS5 Libraries, Text, and Components
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Animation in Flash CS5
Overview/Description
Adobe Flash Professional CS5 is a powerful application for creating and editing dynamic vector-based animations. Its versatile workspace and toolset enable developers to quickly create animations that can be used in a wide variety of contexts. This course introduces the learner to animating in Flash. It explores how to create multiple types of animation including inverse kinematics, frame-by-frame animation, and an improved method of creating motion tweens. Advanced animation topics such as masking and using motion presets and the Motion Editor are also covered.
Target Audience
This course targets a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Learners are expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
2.0
Lesson Objectives
Animation in Flash CS5
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ActionScript and Multimedia in Flash CS5
Overview/Description
ActionScript, a scripting language used to manipulate Flash movies, is at the heart of creating interactivity in your movies. Gaining a grasp of ActionScript is essential if you want to produce highly interactive user experiences. This, coupled with an ability to integrate sound and video into Flash, will give your movies an interactive edge! This course provides an introduction to using ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS5. It also explains and demonstrates how to incorporate sound and video into your movies.
Target Audience
This course targets a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Learners are expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
2.0
Lesson Objectives
ActionScript and Multimedia in Flash CS5
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Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a popular program for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; Adobe Flash is commonly used to
create animation, advertisements, and various web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop
rich Internet applications.
Flash can manipulate vector and raster graphics and supports bi-directional streaming of audio and video. It contains a scripting language called ActionScript. Several software products, systems, and devices are able to create or display Flash content, including Adobe Flash Player, which is available for most common web browsers, some mobile phones and other electronic devices (using Flash Lite).
Benefits of CBT Direct’s Online Adobe Flash Training
CBT Direct boasts the most beneficial online training on the market. With CBT Direct’s online training, you have the flexibility to study on your schedule, and with the speed and reliability of the internet, CBT Direct’s Adobe Flash training course is accessible anywhere you have an internet connection. Convenience finally costs less with CBT Direct - the most affordable online training solution today.
The unique design of CBT Direct’s Adobe Flash training course incorporates a proven four-step learning process: presentation, demonstration, guidance and independent practice. This four-step proven learning model for CBT Direct’s Adobe Flash training course ensures the greatest level of comprehension and retention.
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This training would be beneficial for individuals looking for IT job positions such as; Web Designer, Web Site Editor, Creative Director, Web Director, Programmer, Game Programmer, Microsoft C# Programmer, Microsoft Visual Basic Programmer, Senior .NET Developer or a Director of Programming.
What Professionals Will Learn from CBT Direct’s Adobe
Flash Training
Adobe Flash CS5
This course demonstrates how to get started in Flash Professional CS5, providing a comprehensive introduction to the updated
Flash environment. It introduces the learner to methods of creating graphics, explains how to plan Flash projects, and
demonstrates how to use the core interface areas such as the stage, timeline, and layers.
Adobe Flash CS4
In this online course, you’ll be introduced to Adobe Flash CS4 and learn how to draw and work with images in Flash,
and use Flash libraries, text and other components. You’ll also learn how to use animation in Flash CS4 and manipulate
Flash movies with ActionScript. It will also help you speed up your workflow and how to work with other Adobe programs.
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Adobe Flash CS5
Adobe Flash CS4
