Training for the Design, Publishing, Printing, and Web Authoring Industries 414 258-1646 Flash CS3 Home | Dreamweaver Flash is an authoring tool that allows you to create anything from a simple animation to a complex interactive web application, such as an online store. You can make your Flash applications media rich by adding pictures, sound, and video. Flash includes many features that make it powerful, yet easy to use, such as drag-and-drop user interface components, built-in behaviors that add ActionScript to your document, and special effects that you can add to objects. Flash provides everything you need to create and deliver rich web content and powerful applications. Whether you’re designing motion graphics or building data-driven applications, Flash has the tools necessary to produce great results and deliver the best user experience across multiple platforms and devices. MacTraining Enterprises' three day Flash class will step you through many aspects of designing your own Flash interface, building your skills with each project. We'll also consider pitfalls and the practical issues that every web designer faces. $845 person; 20% discount for 3+ in the same class. The fee includes materials retained by the participants. Refreshments are provided. Lunch is on their own; there are various and numerous restaurants within a few minutes of the training center. Top of page Topics include and are not limited to: Flash Movie Essentials: create a short movie to get familiar with the stage, panels, background color, timeline, layers and layer modes, keyframes, the playhead.... The Flash Tools Panel: a quick look at using tools in context, the subselect tool... Flash Symbols and Libraries: advantages of symbols, editing them, types (graphic, button, movie clip...) and when to use each, sharing symbol Managing Content: handling symbols within symbols, using the grid, rulers, align panel, dealing with stacking order (more work with layers) and the History panel Enhancing Your Appearance*: creating colors, gradients, using, tracing and optimizing bitmaps, gifs, transparency of and animating gifs, jpegs, vector clip art, fonts and typefaces.... Motion and Shape Tweening: scaling objects in motion tweens, easing (important topic), editing multiple frames, color change animations, how shape tweens work, natural looking tweens.... Masks and Masking: a great series of short projects including animated masks and masking multiple layers, text and text shaped masks.... Advanced Animation and Commands*: timeline effects, reusable commands, behaviors, events and event handlers, buttons as interactive elements, attaching behaviors to frames and buttons.... Actions and Interactions*: ActionScript vs Behaviors - scripts, programs and code, understanding scripting and the scripting environment, .... Intelligent Actions*: dot notation, variables, conditional statements.... Optimizing*: bandwidth, optimizing and fine-tuning movies, tips and tricks for optimizing, loading video files, MP3s.... Sound and Video*: sound on the web - Flash and MP3, importing and exporting sound, attaching sound to the timeline, sound issues, creating video - creating video and Flash friendly formats, editing video clips in Flash.... * these topic are covered in the three day class Top of page © MacTraining Enterprises (414) 258-1646