Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted
  • Create a new file in Flash
  • Adjust Stage settings in the Property inspector
  • Add layers to the Timeline
  • Manage keyframes in the Timeline
  • Work with imported images in the Library
  • Move and reposition objects on the Stage
  • Open and work with panels
  • Select and use tools in the Tools panel
  • Preview your  Flash animation
  • Search for topics in Flash Help
  • Access online resources for Flash

 

Chapter 2: Working with Graphics
  • Draw rectangles, ovals, and lines
  • Understand the difference between drawing modes
  • Modify the shape, color, and size of drawn objects
  • Understand fill and stroke settings
  • Make symmetrical patterns
  • Create and edit curves
  • Apply gradients and transparencies
  • Group elements
  • Create and edit text

 

Chapter 3: Creating and Editing Symbols
  • Import Illustrator and Photoshop files
  • Create new symbols
  • Edit symbols
  • Understand the difference between symbol types
  • Understand the difference between symbols and instances
  • Adjust transparency and color
  • Apply blending effects
  • Apply special effects with filters
  • Position objects in 3D space

 

Chapter 4: Adding Animation
  • Animate the position, scale, and rotation of objects
  • Adjust the pacing and timing of your animation
  • Animate transparency and special effects
  • Change the path of the motion
  • Create animation inside symbols
  • Change the easing of the motion
  • Animate in 3D space

 

Chapter 5: Articulated Motion and Morphing
  • Animate armatures with multiple linked movie clips
  • Constrain the joints
  • Animate armatures with shapes
  • Morph organic shapes with shape tweens
  • Use shape hints to refine shape tweens

 

Chapter 6: Creating Interactive Navigation
  • Create button symbols
  • Add sound effects to buttons
  • Duplicate symbols
  • Swap symbols and bitmaps
  • Name button instances
  • Write ActionScript to create nonlinear navigation
  • Create and use frame labels
  • Create animated buttons

 

Chapter 7: Working with Sound and Video
  • Import sound files
  • Edit sound files
  • Use the Adobe Media Encoder
  • Understand video and audio encoding options
  • Play external video from your Flash project
  • Customize options on the playback component
  • Work with video that contains alpha channels
  • Embed video in your Flash project

 

Chapter 8: Using Components
  • Add a simple component to a project
  • Modify a component’s parameters
  • Configure an interactive component
  • Use ActionScript
  • to enable a component


 

PHOTOSHOP LESSON: EDITING A PHOTO

You will have mastered the material in this lesson when you can:

 

  • Start Photoshop and customize the Photoshop workspace
  • Open a photo
  • Identify parts of the Photoshop workspace
  • Explain file types
  • Save a photo for both print and the Web
  • View a photo using the Navigator panel, Zoom tool, Hand tool, and screen modes
  • Display rulers
  • Crop a photo
  • Create a blended border
  • Resize a photo
  • Print a photo
  • View files in Adobe Bridge
  • Close a photo and quit Photoshop

 

 

 

PHOTOSHOP: USING SELECTION TOOLS AND SHORTCUT KEYS

You will have mastered the material in this lesson when you can:

 

  • Explain the terms perspective, layout, and storyboard
  • Describe selection tools
  • Select objects in a photo
  • Use all the marquee tools
  • Move a selection
  • Make transformation edits
  • View states in the History panel
  • Employ the lasso tools
  • Use the Grow command and Refine Edges to adjust selections
  • Add and subtract areas from selections
  • Use ruler grids and guides
  • Select objects using the Quick Selection and Magic Wand tools
  • Print to a PDF file
  • Create new keyboard shortcuts


 

 

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