Adobe® Flash® CS6: Part 1

Course Description

Overview:

The tools available in Adobe® Flash® CS6 can be used to create and manipulate a variety of graphics and animations ranging from simple designs to complex animated sequences. In this course, you will learn to navigate the Adobe® Flash® CS6 interface, and gain knowledge in using the tools and features necessary for drawing graphics and creating a website that contains an animated introduction.

Course Objectives:

Target Student:

The target student for this course is a designer or developer who is new to Flash. The student may be a graphic designer, website developer, multimedia designer, or game designer. This course, combined with the Logical Operations Adobe® Flash® CS6: Part 2 course, covers the Adobe Rich Media Communication using Adobe Flash CS6 objectives, and is intended to help prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Associate exam.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in this course, you should be familiar with the Windows environment, have a strong sense of the Web and its terminologies, have a basic frame of reference for graphic and design applications, and have a desire to know the basic terminologies and components of ActionScript and its role as a Flash programming language. You can obtain this level of skill and knowledge by taking the following Logical Operations course: Introduction to Personal Computers Using Windows 7.

Course-specific Technical Requirements

Hardware

For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:

Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
2 GB of RAM (3 GB recommended)
3.5 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation
1,024 × 768 display (higher resolution recommended, if available)
DVD-ROM drive
Broadband Internet connection for software activation and access to online services

Instructor Hardware

Additionally, the instructor will require a projection system to display the instructor's computer screen.

Software

Each student and instructor computer require the following:

Each computer (students and instructor) will require Flash® Professional CS6
Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 (Windows 7 recommended)
Apple® QuickTime® 7.6.6 software required for multimedia features
Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)

Instructor Software

The instructor computer (but not student computers) will require Microsoft® PowerPoint® to present the course slides.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Flash CS6

Topic A: Identify Components of the Flash CS6 Interface

Topic B: Identify Elements of a Flash Project

Topic C: Customize the Flash CS6 Interface

Lesson 2: Planning a Flash Project

Topic A: Establish Project Requirements and Documentation

Topic B: Implement Best Practices in Rich Media Design

Lesson 3: Creating Illustrations in Flash

Topic A: Start a New Project

Topic B: Draw Basic Shapes

Topic C: Draw Advanced Shapes

Topic D: Add Static Text

Lesson 4: Organizing the Project

Topic A: Use Folders to Organize the Library

Topic B: Use Symbols to Organize for Reuse

Topic C: Use Layers to Create Visual Depth

Lesson 5: Importing Assets into Flash

Topic A: Use Copyrighted Material

Topic B: Import Bitmap and Vector Images

Topic C: Optimize Bitmap Images for Flash

Lesson 6: Creating Animation

Topic A: Create Frame-by-Frame Animation

Topic B: Create Tweens and Embedded Animation

Topic C: Create Motion Tween Animations

Topic D: Animate a Mask

Topic E: Create a Button Rollover

Topic F: Working with Motion Paths

Lesson 7: Adding Basic ActionScript

Topic A: Use ActionScript to Control Animation

Topic B: Add Button Actions