Adobe Flash CC Introduction Masterclass with ACA Exam 5 Days - Manchester

Flash ACA Masterclass 5 Days Overview

This 5-day Masterclass course helps you learn about the tools and features available for power users of Adobe Flash CC. We will help you understand how this industry-leading program takes interactive design to a new level. You will learn everything from navigating the program's environment all the way up to creating interactive websites, animating complex scenes, and even applying 3D features. We will show you how to output your projects for the web, ready to impress your audience.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Navigate the Flash environment
• Import and create graphics
• Draw using the built-in tools
• Create and use symbols
• Animate shapes
• Import audio and video
• Add simple interactivity through Script Assist and Behaviours
• Publish in several formats
• Build photo galleries, carousels, and MP3 players
• Structure projects by adding navigation features
• Apply perspective, blend modes, and other 3D features
• Test your output and simulate a download

The final day of the course is dedicated to the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Flash exam, including trying a mock exam, reviewing answers, and then taking the real exam. The ACA exam represents an official qualification, and you will be provided with an instant pass or fail result. We are confident that you will join everyone we have already helped to pass the exam and collect an official certificate of Adobe Certified Associate status.

As well as giving you the opportunity to take the ACA exam, this course is the perfect preparation if you plan to take the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam.

Our goals are for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print, to understand the advanced features of Flash, to become a confident power user, and to leave with an ACA qualification under your belt.

This course can be taken in a single 5-day block or split into a 2-day block (Introduction) and then a separate 3-day block (Advanced plus ACA exam) taken at a later date.

Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This course is designed for those who are new to design and development and who want to get started with Flash.

You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.

 

Flash CC ACA Masterclass 5 Days Course Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Looking at the course outline

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

Publishing the Microsite

• Publish settings and the flash player version
• Reviewing our result

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 optimizing curves

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
• 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

The Key is in the Name

• 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 actionscript
• 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
• 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

A 3D Carousel

• Building each item as a movieclip
• Building a popup as a named instance
• Creating a dummy movieclip to determine width, height and position
• Applying a background gradient
• Compile items into a Carousel
• Items movieclip and export for actionscript
• Link our carousel to the developer’s code
• Testing the movie

An MP3 Player

• Building our individual components
• Bringing them together and naming the instances
• Linking our MP3Player 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

An e-Book

• Building our individual components
• Bringing them together and naming the instances
• Linking the document to our developer’s code
• Testing the movie and exploring the functionality

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 ACA (Adobe Certified Associate) Exam

• Preparation
• Exam
• Pass or fail?

What's Included

The following are provided for your best experience on this course:

• All computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac systems
• Small class size (limited to a maximum of 4-8 attendees on all sessions)
• Quality reference manual for post course reference to take away with you
• 6 months post course support to assist you where needed
• Official Adobe Authorised Certificate for your successful completion of the course
• Lunch To give you the most flexible options for lunch we provide lunch vouchers which can be redeemed locally at a number of popular eateries including Pret A Manger, EAT, Starbucks, Tesco, Sainsburys, Boots and Greggs
• Refreshments to keep you on top form are available for you throughout the course with a full range of teas, coffees and biscuits
• Pads and pens

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.

Further details on benefits included with this Adobe Flash CC course:

Adobe Certified Flash Instructor

We are an Adobe Authorised Training Centre and our trainers are Adobe Certified Instructors with years of experience teaching Flash. Get the Animation skills you need with our experienced Flash professionals.

Quality training manual

Included with our Flash courses is the Flash Visual Quickstart Guide provided for free to use as a post course reference resource. This is a full 300+ page manual to supplement the content covered during the course.

6 months support

Included with your course booking for all delegates on this course is 6 months free support so if you run into problems or need assistance relating to anything covered during your course we would be happy to assist you during this time.

Adobe Authorised Certificate

After your Adobe class with XChange Training you will receive our official Adobe Authorised Training Certificate as a record of your successful completion of the Adobe Certified Flash course.

Lunch & refreshments

Delegates attending scheduled or bespoke courses at our training centres will receive lunch and plentiful refreshments including tea, coffee and hot chocolate for each day of the course.

Training Location

This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:

Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2AP

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Piccadilly House is located in the heart of Manchester directly next to the Piccadilly Gardens transport interchange with excellent bus and tram connections and is easily accessed from Piccadilly train Station (5 mins). Victoria station is also close by (around 10 mins).

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.

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