Flash 8 tutorial

Flash 8 software is the professional standard for creating rich Internet content and presentation. Flash 8 is the single best tool for making the impression you want. At the conclusion of this course you’ll understand how to use the Flash 8 environment and tools to build rich user interfaces and a wide variety of Web applications.

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After this course, you will know how to:

• Save and manage workspace layouts, work with panels, and set initial movie characteristics using the Property Inspector.
• Use Flash 8’s drawing and painting tools, modify the outline and fill properties of objects, and create custom color swatches, gradients, and line styles.
• Select objects using the selection tools and use the options in Flash 8 to transform and group objects.
• Import a bitmap image into a Flash 8 document and convert it to a vector image.
• Create text blocks and convert them into shapes.
• Work with Flash 8 movies that contain multiple layers.
• Edit and manipulate the movies and create a visual effect using mask layers.
• Quickly arrange objects on multiple layers.
• Work with different types of animations.
• Create frame-by-frame, shape-tween, and motion-tween animations.
• Add a motion guide layer to improve the look of motion-tween animations.
• Prepare a Flash 8 movie for publishing on the web.

The advantages of our Flash 8 video tutorial are:

• You will learn more about Flash 8 than from any other Flash 8 tutorial.
• The Flash 8 tutorial is video based - you'll see exactly what buttons we press in the order you're supposed to press them!
• No better value Flash 8 tutorial on the net.
• Nearly 2 and a half hours of high quality video recording!
• 100% Refund available if it doesn't work for you.
• Once you've downloaded the Flash 8 tutorial you don't need an internet connection to view the video tutorial.

Flash 8 tutorial Class Index

The Flash 8 Environment

• Explore Flash 8
• Flash 8 Development interface
• Working with Templates

Exploring the Drawing and Painting Tools

• Compare Vector and Raster Graphics
• Raster Graphics
• Vector Graphics

Examine the Basic Drawing and Painting Tools

• Tools Panel
• The Pencil Tool
• The Pen Tool
• The Shape Tools
• Stroke and Fill Properties
• The Brush Tool
• The Eraser Tool
• The Paint Bucket Tool
• The Ink Bottle Tool
• The Eyedropper Tool
• The Subselection Tool
• Snapping
• Drawing Models

Create a Custom Color Swatch, Gradient, and Line Style

• Color Values
• The Color Mixer Panel
• Custom Gradients
• Custom Line Styles

Manipulating Objects

• Edit Objects Using the Selection Tools
• The Selection Tool
• The Lasso Tool

Change Object Interaction

• Object Interaction
• Stacking Order
• Line and Shape Interaction

Create Symbols and Instances

• Symbols
• Types of Symbols
• Registration Point
• The Object Level Undo Feature
• Instances
• Filter Effects
• Blend Modes

Transform Objects

• Transform Options in Flash 8
• The Free Transform Tool
• Grouped Objects
• Scaling

Work with Bitmap Images

• Bitmap Image Conversion
• The Trace Bitmap Dialog Box

Working with Text

• Create Text Blocks
• Text Blocks
• Text Types
• Text Attributes
• Font Rendering

Convert Text into Shapes

• Breaking Text Apart
• Text Conversion

Working with Multiple Layers in a Movie

• Work with Multiple Layers
• The Timeline
• Layer Organization
• The Distribute to Layers Command
• Hidden Layers
• Locked Layers
• Layer Outlines

Create a Mask Layer

• Creating a Layer Mask

Align the Objects in a Flash 8 Document

• The Align Panel

Creating an Animation

• Create a Frame-by-Frame Animation
• Animation
• The Erasing Feature
• The Custom Ease In/Ease Out Dialog Box
• Frame-by-frame animation
• The Onion Skinning Feature

Create a Shape-Tween Animation

• Tweening
• The Shape Tween Feature

Create a Motion-Tween Animation

• Motion Tweening

Create a Guide Layer

• Motion Guide

Mask Animations

• Animation of a Mask Layer

Publishing a Flash 8 Movie

• Select the Publish Settings
• The Publish Settings Dialog Box

Publish a Flash File

• Preview and Publish Files

Flash 8 Designer Certification Exam Objectives covered by this course:

• Content - Static vs Dynamic content
• Loading Image Files (JPG, GIF, PNG), FLVs and MP3s
• Use of Template Images
• Guides and Guide Layers
• Snapping
• Align Panel
• Rulers
• Grid
• Pasteboard
• Object Level undo vs document level undo
• Legible / Resizable Text
• Importing
• Relative vs absolute scaling effects
• Transform fill / tilling effects
• Object drawing model vs merge drawing model
• Control Points / subselection tool

What you need to use the Flash 8 tutorial

Please ensure your computer system meets these requirements in order to use the Flash 8 tutorial:

• A Computer!
• Internet Browser
• Macromedia FLASH plugin
• Set of Speakers

We also strongly recommend you have a cable / broadband connection in order to download the tutorials - the download is quite large - over 75 Mb.

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