Flash Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

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OFFER - If you book this course you are entitled to 2 days free training with the Flexideal.

 

 

This course can be taken as one continuous block or broken down into smaller segments, namely Flash Introduction - 2 day, Flash Intermediate - 2 day, Flash Adobe Certified Prep + Exam - 1 day. There is no extra charge to split your course and some people prefer to learn over a longer period.

 

Get Certified. Become an Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) in Adobe Flash

This introductory course is aimed at anyone who is new to the Adobe Flash environment.During the training delegates will benefit from continual hands-on practice with Adobe Flash to create engaging animations and stunning interactive designs.

People are often faced with the same Flash problems, so this course is aimed at helping everyone to structure their designs in Flash and to eventually integrate with development team members or finish up on their own.

The course breaks down into two distinct sections: the first looks at advanced design and animation techniques exploring some of the latest features of Flash and design best practice; the second looks at the design.

On the final day you’ll also prepare for and take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam in Flash. Get recognised for the skills you’ve achieved!

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at designers and developers who are new to Flash and who want to get to grips with the user interface and learn the basics of animation and interactivity. This class takes you past the basics and you will learn to work more heavily with interactive content and development workflow. At the end of the class you will also take the accredited Adobe ACA exam in Flash to become a Flash Adobe Certified Associate.

What you will learn

• The Flash design interface
• Creating engaging graphics, text and animation
• Build stunning interactive content
• Motion editor for animation
• Blend modes and reflections
• Frame-by-frame and character animation
• 3D in Flash

These skills will then be built upon to explore microsite design and best practice and architecture. The course is then rounded off with a workshop session where delegates solve common Flash design dilemmas such as clickTags, preloaders and progress bars, photo galleries, presentations, carousels, MP3 players, e-books and 3D product visualisation.

Adobe Certified Associate (ACA)

You will take the Flash Adobe Certified Associate exam to be accredited by Adobe.

 

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Training Dates

London Covent Garden

6 - 10 February 2012

19 - 23 March 2012

…more dates

 

Cardiff

12 - 16 March 2012

2 - 6 July 2012

…more dates

 

Bristol

12 - 16 March 2012

2 - 6 July 2012

…more dates

 

 

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Flash Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

Introducing Flash

• Launching Flash
• Resetting the workspace
• Exploring the welcome screen
• The Flash files explained
• Creating our first Flash file
• The panels
• Modifying the movie properties
• Saving the file

Getting to grips with drawing

• Strokes and fills
• Solving classic problems
• Shape interaction
• Working in a single layer causes its problems
• Accidental fill on fill
• Stroke and fill interactions

Working in layers

• Building new layers
• Locking previous layers to prevent modification
• Hiding and showing layers
• Outline view as an alternative to visibility
• Adding shadows to our design

Spelling it out

• The text tool
• Checking the properties before you type
• Adding our text
• Back to black
• Changing the properties
• Discussing the anti-alias options
• Working with large blocks of text
• An example of text orientation
• Breaking apart text and applying a stroke 

Enhancing the design with images

• A simple import to stage
• Let's take a look at workflow
• A workflow for transparent content
• Working with vector artwork

Being symbolic

• The concept
• Convert to symbol
• Compare and discuss the symbol types
• Look at color effects
• Look at filters
• Reuse is the key
• Blend modes

Using the mask

• Importing an image
• Creating a new layer
• Using the grid fill deco tool
• Turning it into a mask
• Locking layers and preview

Tweening time

• Steps to happiness
• Tweening different properties
• Putting it into practise – let's build a banner
• The magic staircase
• Animating images
• Cache as bitmap
• Exploring easing and breaking up a tween

Publishing your movie

• A quick look at publish settings
• Publishing the movie
• Reviewing the output

Back to banners

• Banner advert sizes
• Let's build a banner to brush up our skills
• Alphas, movement, scale, blur
• Placing backgrounds and borders on our banner
• Advertisement text
• Transparent corners
• Creating movieclips in retrospect
• Masking revisited
• Using a mask in an animation
• How to add a simple link

The building blocks of a simple microsite

• Building a button
• Duplicating symbols
• Bringing the buttons together
• Using a movieclip for the background
• Sketching out the design

Building our first page

• The home page

Building the other pages

• Using scenes to separate our pages
• Getting the content in the same place
• Duplicating the title symbol object and then swapping it out
• Swapping out the image
• Modifying the layout
• Naming our scenes
• Modifying behaviour with a sprinkling of script
• Adding some code to make the buttons work

Sneaking in a simple preloader

• Adding labels to our frames as anchors
• Changing our publish settings to enable the anchors
• Reviewing the movie and fixing any problems

Banner adverts

• Dimensions and file sizes
• Working our graphics before use
• The Kuler extension
• Motion tweening with the motion editor and easing
• Duplicating motion to a second symbol
• Motion presets
• Mask layers and movieclips in retrospect

Introducing interaction

• Movieclips as buttons
• Using this to create popups
• Blend modes and reflections
• Instance names
• Scaling symbols and 9-slice view
• The scroll pane and scrolling content

Frame-by-frame animation

• Illustrator as a tool
• The import process
• Drawn and scanned content
• Import an image series
• Tracing bitmaps and optimising curves

Character animation and the Bones tool

• Importing from Illustrator and movieclips
• Using the Bones tool
• Building a basic animation

Working in 3D

• First, the limitations
• Using perspective to produce a different design
• Gradient styles
• Bitmap fills
• Blend modes to darken into the distance
• Movement in 3D and the motion editor
• Rotation in 3D and the classic problem of completion
• Publish settings and GPU acceleration

Working with XFL

• After effects to Flash workflow and FLV vs XFL
• Indesign to Flash using XFL

Getting it all online

• Using a SWF in a Dreamweaver page
• Window modes and overlapping divs
• The code produced by Flash and how to use it

The Flash project

• Creating a project
• Separating content into separate SWFs
• The uiloader component
• Backgrounds and 9-slice scaling
• Libraries and runtime sharing

Building navigation

• Movieclips as buttons
• Frame labels
• Audio on our buttons and runtime sharing
• Grouping buttons as a navigation bar
• Filters revisited
• Instance names
• Accessibility on our buttons
• Applying a document class to intercept interaction

The home page

• Static text and anti-aliasing
• Importing an image for use
• Converting to a movieclip to apply a filter
• Introducing dynamic text
• Fixing the size and making it scrollable
• Adding the all important scroll bar
• Making our text and images accessible
• Considering localisation of content

The about page

• Working in the library
• Producing more interesting content
• Don't forget accessibility and localisation
• Using the scroll pane to make it scroll

The products page

• Building another SWF
• Creating each 'item' as a movieclip
• Using the uiloader to load images at runtime
• The download preview

The contact page

• Using scenes for navigation
• Building a more interesting navigation bar with images
• Applying a class to our buttons
• Duplicating the scenes
• Applying a document class to resolve navigation
• Importing images
• Making the map more exciting with a component
• Building a form to collect information
• The importance of instance names

Publishing and previewing our microsite

• Reviewing the publish settings
• Publishing the movie
• Viewing in the browser

Develop workflow

• Planning and communication
• The initial design prototype and the first development meeting
• Symbol names and types
• Instance names
• 'Export for ActionScript' and eloquent structure

Banner advert clicktags

• The theory of banner advert providers
• An insight into the HTML
• Applying a document class to our banner
• Viewing the example online

A preloader

• Movie structure
• 'Export for ActionScript3'
• Looking at the bandwidth profiler
• Adding a preloader scene
• Changing the compiler settings
• Using the deco tool to produce a preloader animation
• Linking to our document class
• Testing the movie and simulating the download

A progress bar

• The progress bar plan
• Working in layers
• Instance names and registration points
• Masks can make things look great!
• Clever looping animation
• Using and naming our progress bar
• Linking to the class definition
• Testing the movie and simulating the download

A photo gallery

• The prototype sketch
• Preparing our photos using batch processing
• Writing an XML file
• Building our Flash movie
• Creating dummy movieclips
• Dynamic text and embedding fonts
• Adding backgrounds and borders
• Linking in our document class
• Testing the movie and simulating the download

A presentation

• Working with scenes
• Adding some animation
• Playing it through
• It would be nice to have some control and applying our code from the developer
• Exploring the functionality

A simple tabbed view

• Building our tabs
• Building our pages
• Naming the instances
• Linking the pages and tabs to the base class
• Enabling the component definitions
• Viewing the component inspector
• Setting the parameters
• Testing the movie

An MP3 player

• Building our individual components, play/pause, volume control, volume display, mute control, song title preview, player background and frequency analyser
• Bringing them together and naming the instances
• Linking our MP3 player to the developer's code
• Enabling the component definition
• Drag and drop the component into the design
• Use the component inspector to set the MP3 filename

A 3D loader for product visualisation

• Building a dummy placeholder
• Linking to the developer's code
• Enabling the component definition
• Adding the component to the movie
• Setting the 3D filename in the component inspector
• Testing the movie and exploring the functionality

Flash Adobe Certified Associate exam

• Preparation
• Practice exam
• Flash Adobe Certified Associate exam

 

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Flash Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

The FlexiDeal® - free training

Our courses come with free training at London Covent Garden and Cardiff!

It's very simple: just book a day of private training or one of our 3-day, 4-day or 5-day scheduled courses and you'll qualify for additional free training at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres – that's the FlexiDeal®.

And as long as you take these additional courses within 6 months of your first qualifying booking, you can even accumulate your FlexiDeal®.

Collecting FlexiDeals®

• Book a 1-day private course – get 1 day free
• Book a 3-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
• Book a 4-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
• Book a 5-day scheduled course – get 2 days free
  
  

See below for courses you can claim for free in the FlexiDeal®

Acrobat

• Acrobat Essentials (1 day)
• Acrobat Introduction (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Advanced (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Forms (1 day)
• Acrobat ACE (2 day)

After Effects

• After Effects Introduction (2 day)
• After Effects Advanced (3 day)
• After Effects Masterclass (5 day)

Dreamweaver

• Dreamweaver Web Building Introduction (3 day)
• Dreamweaver Web Building Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Dreamweaver ACA Prep + Exam (1 day)
• Dreamweaver ACE (2 day)

Flash

• Flash Introduction (2 day)
• Flash Intermediate + Certification (3 day)
• Flash Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Flash ACA Prep + Exam (1 day)
• Flash ACE (2 day)

Illustrator

• Illustrator Introduction (1 day)
• Illustrator Introduction (2 day)
• Illustrator Advanced (2 day)
• Illustrator Masterclass (4 day)
• Illustrator ACE (2 day)

InDesign

• InDesign Introduction (1 day)
• InDesign Interactive (1 day)
• InDesign Print Production (1 day)
• InDesign Introduction (2 day)
• InDesign Advanced (2 day)
• InDesign ePub (1 day)
• InDesign iPad+Android (1 day)
• InDesign Masterclass (4 day)
• InDesign ACE (2 day)

Photoshop

• Photoshop Introduction (2 day)
• Photoshop Advanced (2 day)
• Photoshop Masterclass (4 days)
• Photoshop Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Photoshop ACE (2 day)

Premiere Pro (Cardiff only)

• Premiere Pro Introduction (3 day)

• Premiere Pro Intermediate + Certification (2 day)
• Premiere Pro Masterclass + Certification (5 day)

How to book

Just email us confirmation of your valid booking(s) that qualified for the FlexiDeal®.

Terms and conditions

• FlexiDeal® is applicable only if the full RRP is paid for your course(s). Any discounting invalidates the FlexiDeal®. If discounting has been applied you can pay back the difference in order to qualify for the offer
• The FlexiDeal® offer lasts for 6 months from the first date of your qualifying bookings
• The FlexiDeal® is not available to funded individuals although we might apply at our descretion depending upon the number of training days booked under the particular scheme

 

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Flash Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

London Covent Garden

6 - 10 February 2012

19 - 23 March 2012

16 - 20 July 2012

24 - 28 September 2012

19 - 23 November 2012

 

Cardiff

12 - 16 March 2012

2 - 6 July 2012

22 - 26 October 2012

 

Bristol

12 - 16 March 2012

2 - 6 July 2012

22 - 26 October 2012

 

 

If you don't see any suitable dates here, it might be more economical to deliver a private training course for you

 

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Requirements

• Basic knowledge of Windows or Macintosh.
• Understand how to launch an application and save files.
• For web courses you will need to have knowledge of web browsers.

General information

• Courses start at 10am and finish at 5pm. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the course on the first day.
• We operate a casual dress code.
• We supply all computers, software and courseware, pads, pens, lunch and refreshments.
• We have both Apple OSX Lion and Windows 7 systems.
• Bring along a USB/Flash drive so you can take away your course files.
• Following your course, we will email you an Adobe Authorised Course Completion Certificate.
• Each course comes with either on-line assets (electronic book/PDF or movies) to download or a high-quality Visual Quickstart 500-page training book. We are migrating most course assets to on-line downloads during 2012.
• Access to a secure section of our site that offers useful tips and tricks.

Lunch

London Covent Garden - Flexible lunch vouchers are used and redeemable at outlets nearby such as Bella Italia, Eat, Nandos, Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, Starbucks, Sainsbury's and Tesco to name but a few.

Bristol and Cardiff - Look out for our designer cold buffet lunch.

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