Overview
This introductory training is tailored specifically to the needs of a beginner or intermediate user of Adobe Flash CS4. During the course you will learn how to create, animate and efficiently mange your rich media content via the brand new CS4 interface. You will understand how to correctly implement features like the new motion tween, motion presets, ActionScript3 event handling and how to professionally set up your site.
The Adobe Flash CS4 Professional: Essentials course will give you the confidence and experience to utilise Flash to design eye-catching banners, create rich-media websites and incorporate videos to your site. This course is aimed at aspiring and currently employed graphic and digital designers who want to progress to the next step in their career. Once completing the certification, you will have the opportunity to gain employment in multiple job roles in the industry.Learning with Study 365 has many advantages. The course material is delivered straight to you and can be adapted to fit in with your lifestyle. It is created by experts within the industry, meaning you are receiving accurate information, which is up-to-date and easy to understand.
This course is comprised of professional learning material, all delivered through a system that you will have access to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 365 days (12 months).
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- Aspiring digital designers
- Aspiring graphic designers
- Artists / designers
- Graduates
- Marketing professionals
- Students
- Job seekers
This course consists of the following modules:
- Module 01: Creating & Managing Content
- Module 02: Managing Website Content
- Module 03: The Timeline
- Module 04: Motion Presets
- Module 05: Creation a Motion Tween
- Module 06: Animation Techniques
- Module 07: Actionscript & Behaviors
- Module 08: Using Sound & Video
- Module 09: Publishing your Site
From the day you purchase the course, you will have 12 months access to the online study platform. As the course is self-paced you can decide how fast or slow the training goes, and are able to complete the course in stages, revisiting the training at any time.
At the end of the course, you will have one assignment to be submitted (you need a mark of 65% to pass) and you can submit the assignment at any time. You will only need to pay £19 for assessment and certification when you submit the assignment. You will receive the results within 72 hours of submittal, and will be sent a certificate in 7-14 days if you have successfully passed the course.
Successful candidates will be awarded a certificate in Flash CS4 Professional: Essentials.
Learners must be age 16 or over and should have a basic understanding of the English Language, numeracy, literacy, and ICT.
Ideal for a beginner to learn all about Adobe Flash and how to use it to maximise results. Here you will learn how to really create, animate and manager the rich media content via the CS4 interface. Understand how to implement certain features using the software as well such as new motion tween, motion pre-sets and also how to set up your own site effectively. The certification will prove your skills and expertise in Adobe Flash CS4, giving you the opportunity to expand your career in the industry. A career with bright prospects await you with the completion of this course. According to www.payscale.uk, some of the key job positions along with the average UK salary per annum you can go for after completing this course will be as follows.
- Digital Designer - £24,870 per annum
- Graphic Designers - £21,956 per annum
- Digital Media Producer - £29,948 per annum
- Visual Designer - £29,338 per annum
- Media Art - £25,524 per annum
John Ulliman has been working in interactive digital media since 1985 starting out his career on cutting edge applications for computer modeling and animation in the Aerospace industry with a number of companies, including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. He started his own studio, On The Wave Visual Communications in 1991 providing 2D and 3D graphics and animations for print, video and the web. He has consulted for many software firms in the industry, including Apple, Adobe, Macromedia, Microsoft, AutoDesk, and Alias Wavefront.
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| Free Introduction | |||
| Flash CS4 Professional: Essentials | FREE | 00:00:00 | |
| 1: CREATING & MANAGING CONTENT | |||
| 1. Touring the Flash Interface | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. New Document Settings & Navigation | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Drawing & Selecting Simple Vector Shapes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Drawing Curves with the Pen & Pencil Tools | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Exploring Other Drawing Tools | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Interaction between Shapes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Grouping Objects | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Working in Object Drawing Mode | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2: MANAGING WEBSITE CONTENT | |||
| 1. Working with Layers | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Using Bitmaps | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Adding Text | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Use the Regular & Primitive Shape Tools to Build a Graphic | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Creating & Adjusting a Symbol | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Transforming Objects with the Free Transform Tool | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Exploring Color Types & Gradients | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3: THE TIMELINE | |||
| 1. Timeline Basics | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Create a Span of Frames & Control the Playhead | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Creating Keyframes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Insert Blank Keyframes & Clear Keyframes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Frame-by-Frame Animation & Onion Skin | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4: MOTION PRESETS | |||
| 1. Getting Started with Motion Presets | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Modifying a Motion Tween | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Stretching Tween Spans | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Save Custom Presets & Create Layer Folders | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Moving Tween Spans | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Setting Static Frames | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Building a Test Movie | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5: CREATING A MOTION TWEEN | |||
| 1. Adding a Motion Tween | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Setting Property Keyframes for Scale & Rotation | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Creating a Motion Tween from a Shape | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Easing Keyframes | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Creating a Fade-in by Adjusting the Alpha | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Making a Motion Preset | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6: ANIMATION TECHNIQUES | |||
| 1. Importing Slideshow Content | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Working in a Movie Clip Timeline | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Animating the First Image in the Slideshow | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Non-linear Animation | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Swapping Objects | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Using the Distribute to Layers Command | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Adjust Timeline View Options & Animation Timing | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7: ACTIONSCRIPT & BEHAVIORS | |||
| 1. Introducing ActionScript | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Adding a Stop Action | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Creating Buttons & Setting Button States | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Creating Interactive Text Buttons | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Adding Site Content | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Setting up for ActionScript 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Adding Behaviors with ActionScript 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Writing ActionScript 3 | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8: USING SOUND & VIDEO | |||
| 1. Adding a Sound File to the Timeline | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Adding Sound to a Button | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Encoding Video for Import into Flash | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. Set Import Options & Choose a Player Skin | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. The FLVPlayback Component & Component Inspector | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Flash Video for ActionScript 2 & Older Players | 00:00:00 | ||
| 9: PUBLISHING YOUR SITE | |||
| 1. Overview of Flash Publish Settings | 00:00:00 | ||
| 2. Compression in Bitmaps & Sounds | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3. Other Flash Publish Settings | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4. HTML Settings | 00:00:00 | ||
| 5. Publishing Your Flash Movie | 00:00:00 | ||
| 6. Dreamweaver(R) Integration | 00:00:00 | ||
| 7. Uploading Your Site to a Server via FTP | 00:00:00 | ||
| 8. Credits | 00:00:00 | ||
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