Adobe Flash CS3 for Designers

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Do you want to learn Flash from the ground up? Add videos to your webpage easily, add elegant animations, photo galleries and more. These kinds of thing are now within your reach. This video walks you through the entire Flash Application. It's an A-Z guide to using Flash. Even if you have never used Flash Before, this video will get you creating Flash projects in no time at all. This video is created with the designer in mind. You'll learn all the actionscript you need to get started developing Rich Internet sites, even if you have no programming experience. Colin walks you through with his no-nonsence, plain English approach. It's easier that you thought to learn Flash, and no, it doesn't have to be boring and difficult. All the lesson files, Flash files, videos, sounds and photos are included so you have what the instructor has!

This video is designed to provide an intensive (but easy to follow) crash-course in Flash CS3. The 65 lessons are based on the curriculum Colin taught at the sold-out out multi-city tour; Flash CS3 Summercamp. Whether you’re a complete Flash beginner or someone wanting to quickly get up to speed with the new Features in Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3, this video is for you!

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Flash CS3 for Designers

Part 1

Session 1 Basics and Drawing

IFACE

1. Welcome: Welcome      screen and setting launch preferences :: 3:22


2. Interface: Take      a tour of the Flash CS3 interface :: 10:30           


3. Timeline/Layers: Learn      about layer in the timeline :: 8:25

Drawing

1. Stroke: Use      the line tool and pencil tool. Create custom strokes :: 10:52


2. Shapes: Use      the shape tools and use fills :: 10:36


3. Primitives: Interactive      shapes :: 3:55


4. Gradients: Create      and transform gradients :: 9:59


5. Brush: Use      the brush tool in all 5 painting modes ::      6:04


6. Stroke      to fill: Convert      a stroke to a fill, allows multiple strokes :: 4:33


7. Object      Drawing: Use the Object drawing model. Use arrange and combine objects :: 5:56           


8. Transform: Use      Free transform and envelopes :: 4:52


9. Pen      tool: Master      the pen tool. Create different shapes :: 8:54


10. Align: Align      and evenly space objects with a single click :: 3:11


11. Soften: Feather      the edges of vector shapes :: 3:47


12. Filters: Use      the different filters in Flash :: 6:39                 


13. Illustrator      import: Use      the new Illustrator Importer, import native Illustrator documents :: 4:39     

Bitmaps

1. Vector      vs Bitmap: Bitmaps      and Vectors explained :: 5:17          


2. Import      Bitmap: Understand      Importing Bitmaps, and image compression ::  5:24          


3. PSD Import: Import      native layered Photoshop Documents :: 6:46           


4. Trace      Bitmap: Convert      Bitmap photos into Vectors :: 4:19       


5. Magic      Wand: Use      the Magic wand to select portions of bitmaps :: 3:22         


6. Bitmap Fill: Create      tiled bitmap patterns in Flash :: 6:00


7. Build Thumbnails: Mix      Vectors and vectors to create Thumbnail buttons :: 8:23   

All source files included.

Session 2 Animations

1. Symbols: Understand      the 3 different types of Symbols :: 13:03


2. Basic      motion: Learn      about animation and tweens  :: 11:12  


3. Cachebitmap: A      more efficient way of animating complex vectors :: 2:16


4. Shape      tween: Create      Shape Tweens (Morphing) and use Shape Hints :: 4:50


5. Easing: Add      realism to your motion with easing :: 4:40           


6. Squash      and stretch: Add      volumee and weight to your animated objects :: 2:29


7. Animate      properties: Animate      Color, rotation, transparency and       size :: 5:55


8. Blur: Add      motion blur for more elegant animation :: 3:22


9. Nested      Animation: Create      animation within animation :: 3:22


10. Animated      filters: Animate      Filters for super realism ::  2:30 


11. Motion      on a path: Animate      on a path, say goodbye to boring linear animation :: 6:53


12. Masks: Animate      an image inside text and create a funky border :: 3:00


13. Motion      masks: A      signature with an invisible hand :: 1:36           


14. Timeline      effects: Use      Flash to generate complex animated transitions :: 6:42


15. Copy      and Paste motion: Don’t      do more work than needed. Copy all the motion properties from one object      to another :: 2:30

Text

1. Basic      Text: Add      single line and paragraph text. Use Anti aliasing :: 7:00


2. Dynamic text: Create      Scrolling Dynamic text with components :: 8:09           


3. HTML      Formatting: Format      your text using HTML :: 3:36 


4. Banner      AD: Put      it all together with an animated banner ad :: 12:01            

All source files included.

Part 2

Session 3 MultiMedia

Sound

1. Button      Sound: Add      sound to a button :: 3:00 


2. Editing      Sound: Adding      Fades using Flash’s sound editor :: 4:11


3. Looping Sound: Add music to your website. Add a sound button to control playback :: 17:00    

Video

1. Components: Easily      add Video to a webpage :: 4:47 


2. Sequence: Work      with Image sequences, Quicktime and FLV video (Roundtrip workflow) :: 12:22


3. Alpha: Create rotoscoped video with  transparency :: 7:49           


4. Cue      Points: Add      Navigation Cue points to add chapters to your video :: 10:10  


5. Vid      Player: Create      a video player application. Load multiple videos into a single player  :: 13:49


6. Filter      Video: Add      filters to videos for special effects :: 8:40

All source files included.

Session 4 Action

1. Button: Make      a simple button using behaviours ::  4:57


2. ActionScript overview: A      basic introduction to Objects and ActionScript 3 ::  9:18


3. variables: Understand      how to use variables as containers :: 11:29           


4. Functions: Control      your actionScript with functions  ::  6:20 


5. Output text: Create      dynamic text with actionScript  :: 5:36


6. Input      Text: Use      input text so the user can enter text  :: 6:04 


7. Movie      clips as buttons: Advanced      way of using buttons :: 10:39           


8. Draggable      movieclip: Learn      how to make a movie clip draggable and add soft edged masks ::  7:40 


9. Conditions: Add      conditional logic to your scripts, make them think  :: 7:37       


10. webpage Nav system: Use      actionScript to control a web page ::  7:05           


11. Loader      component: Easily      load images dynamically :: 4:25


12. Loading      External text: Load      text from an external text document at runtime :: 12:05    


13. Image      Gallery: Create      an image gallery with captions and photos. Learn about arrays :: 17:06


14. Publishing movies: Learn      all the different ways of publishing and outputting flash files. Add a Flash sniffer. :: 12:30

All source files included.

Colin Smith.
An award winning designer, best-selling author and trainer. Colin is founder of the #1 PhotoshopCAFE online community which has received over 5 million visitors. Colin has authored 18 books and has been featured in almost every major design magazine. He is in high demand as a lecturer throughout the United States with clients including Disney Studios. Colin is a speaker at the Flash Forward Conference.