Flash Web Banners | Course Overview

Course Description

This Flash course has been designed as a basic introduction to Adobe Flash. In a single day students will focus on some of Flash's most important yet accessible features in order to efficiently produce web banners and basic animations.

To produce animation & interactivity that works on all devices, including iPads & iPhones, see Adobe's new Edge Animate.

What You Will Learn

Planning
Workflow
Creating Layers and Guides
Importing Bitmap and Vector Graphics
Drawing in Flash
Using Text and Filters

Using Symbols and the Library
Flash Animation
Creating Motion Tween Animation
Creating Shape Tween animation
Creating Masks
Using ActionScript to control Timelines

Who Should Attend

This Adobe Flash course is for anyone who wishes to use Flash to create web banner ads or small animations for a website. No prior knowledge of Flash is required.

Flash Web Banners

Flash Web Banners | Outline

Planning

Scoping a Flash project
Defining end user requirements
Understanding technical requirements
Deployment

Workflow

Asset Preparation
Optimisation, Re-usability and Best Practice
IDE Overview: The Flash Interface

Setting up new documents

Creating a new Flash document
Setting Stage properties
Defining Publishing Settings
Adding Metadata and Accessibility

Creating Layers and Guides

Creating and naming Layers
The Timeline panel
Locking/Unlocking and Hiding/Showing Layers
Re-ordering layers

Importing Bitmap and Vector Graphics

Bitmap Image Overview
Importing Bitmaps
Importing Vector Files

Drawing in Flash

Vector paths
Colour Tools and Panels

Using Text and Filters

Static Text
Hyperlinks
Text Filters

Using Symbols and the Library

The Library
Creating Symbols
Symbol types and their usage

About Flash Animation

Animation Basics
Animation Types
Stepframe Animation
How to create a Stepframe animation
Editing Stepframe animation

Creating Motion Tween Animation

About Motion Tweens
Motion Tween Rules
Using Motion Paths

Creating Shape Tween animation

About Shape Tweens
Shape Tween rules

Creating Masks

Masking rules
How to create masks

Using ActionScript to control Timelines

Adding a Stop action
Extending the Timeline

Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Canberra

SYDNEY Select a date to book online now	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct
Flash Web Banners	—	13	29	—	2	6 Nov
Flash Essentials Courses	—	13 & 14	29 & 30	—	2 & 3	6 & 7 Nov
ActionScript 3.0 for Flash	—	—	1 & 2	—	—	24 & 25

MELBOURNE Select a date to book online now	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct
Flash Web Banners	—	27	—	26	—	—
Flash Essentials	—	27 & 28	—	26 & 27	—	—
ActionScript 3.0 for Flash	—	—	15 & 16	—	—	—

BRISBANE	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct
Flash Web Banners	Currently not available as a public courses in Brisbane. Private training can be organised.
Flash Essentials
ActionScript 3.0 for Flash

CANBERRA	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct
Flash Web Banners	Currently not available as a public courses in Canberra. Private training can be organised.
Flash Essentials
ActionScript 3.0 for Flash