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Adobe Flash CC Introduction Masterclass with ACP Exam 5 Days - Manchester
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction to Advanced
Duration:
5
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£995 + vat
Go from being a novice to mastering the advanced tasks in the leading interactive-design program. Join us as we show you how to take charge and become a Flash power user. Learn how to create and structure advanced visual projects. Pass the ACP exam and get qualified!
We will guide you on everything from getting started with a simple document and controlling the Flash environment all the way up to creating animations with complex motion paths. With our help, you will become confident in using the program's advanced features to produce impressive interactive visuals ready for the web. You will end the course by testing your skills in the ACP exam.
Go from being a novice to mastering the advanced tasks in the leading interactive-design program. Join us as we show you how to take charge and become a Flash power user. Learn how to create and structure advanced visual projects. Pass the ACP exam and get qualified!
We will guide you on everything from getting started with a simple document and controlling the Flash environment all the way up to creating animations with complex motion paths. With our help, you will become confident in using the program's advanced features to produce impressive interactive visuals ready for the web. You will end the course by testing your skills in the ACP exam.
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Flash ACP Masterclass 5 Days
Course Details
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 Professional (ACP) Flash exam, including trying a mock exam, reviewing answers, and then taking the real exam. The ACP 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 Professional status.
As well as giving you the opportunity to take the ACP 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 ACP 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 ACP 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.
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Full 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
- 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
- Strokes and fills
- Solving classic problems
- Shape Interaction
- Working in a single layer causes its problems
- Accidental fill on fill
- Stroke and fill interactions
- 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
- 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
- A simple import to stage
- Let’s take a look at workflow
- A workflow for transparent content
- Working with vector artwork
- The concept
- Convert to symbol
- Compare and discuss the symbol types
- Look at color effects
- Look at filters
- Reuse is the key
- Blend modes
- Importing an image
- Creating a new layer
- Using the grid fill deco tool
- Turning it into a mask
- Locking layers and preview
- 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
- A quick look at publish settings
- Publishing the movie
- Reviewing the output
- 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
- Building a button
- Duplicating symbols
- Bringing the buttons together
- Using a movieclip for the background
- Sketching out the design
- The home page
- 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
- Adding labels to our frames as anchors
- Changing our publish settings to enable the anchors
- Reviewing the movie and fixing any problems
- Publish settings and the flash player version
- Reviewing our result
- 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
- 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
- Illustrator as a tool
- The import process
- Drawn and scanned content
- Import an image series
- Tracing bitmaps and optimizing curves
- 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
- After Effects to Flash workflow
- Indesign to Flash using xfl
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Reviewing the publish settings
- Publishing the movie
- Viewing in the browser
- Planning and communication
- The initial design prototype and the first development meeting
- Symbol names and types
- Instance names
- Export for actionscript and eloquent structure
- The theory of banner advert providers
- An insight into the html
- Applying a document class to our banner
- Viewing the example online
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Preparation
- Exam
- Pass or fail?
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Location Details
This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:
Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2APPiccadilly 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 4:30pm 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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Flash CC ACP Masterclass 5 Days - Upcoming Manchester Course Dates
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Whats Included:
Your choice of Windows or Mac 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Quality reference manual 
Authorised Course Certificate 
Lunch and refreshments
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the London Centre the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
During the course we provide all computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac, lunch and refreshments along with pads & pens. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate, quality reference manual and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Although this course does not provide an actual qualification each delegate is provided with an official Certificate for completion of the course level.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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