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Flash CS3: Advanced Flash Design

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Small Flash MXFlash designers with some ActionScript experience will find that the Advanced Flash Designer course provides the knowledge and hands-on practice required to build more flexible and dynamic design-based Flash pieces. This course focuses on teaching students more advanced ActionScript topics that removes their reliance on timeline-based visual tools. It also introduces them to other ActionScript code that will allow them to generate dynamic design and navigation elements that cannot be created without ActionScript.
This class is 2-days in length.


Price: $995.00
GSA Price: $995.00

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Audience

This course is for Flash designers who have some experience with ActionScript but want to learn more advanced topics and features to enhance their designs. To gain the most from this class you should already have:

Course Outline

Unit 1: Flash CS3 Overview

  • Exploring the Finished Photo Gallery
  • Reviewing the Beginning Template

Unit 2: Working with Graphics

  • Understanding the Object Drawing Model
  • Using Gradients
  • Using Strokes
  • Understanding Filters
  • Understanding Blend Modes

Unit 3: Importing Content using XML

  • Reviewing the Text Controls
  • Static, dynamic, input
  • Understanding XML
  • Introducing the XML Class
  • Loading XML
  • Retrieving Text Nodes
  • Parsing XML Data into Flash Data

Unit 4: Working with Text

  • Introducing Anti-Alias Rendering
  • Using the TextFormat Object for Styles
  • Using Cascading Style Sheets with text

Unit 5: Advanced Graphic Loading

  • Loading JPG/GIF/PNG formats with AS
  • LoadMovie
  • MovieClipLoader
  • Image Caching (issues/benefits)
  • Attaching movie clips dynamically
  • Creating a pre-loader
  • Displaying Random Images
  • Creating Position-Aware Elements

Unit 6: Reviewing Animation Basics with ActionScript

  • Reviewing Animation on the Timeline
  • Introducing Custom Easing
  • Masking with ActionScript
  • Animating with ActionScript
  • Understanding Bitmap Caching

Unit 7: Advanced Animation with ActionScript

  • Introducing the Tween Class / Penner formulas
  • Introducing the Transition Class

Unit 8: Customizing Components

  • Using styles
  • Styling with CSS
  • Modifying component graphics/skins

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