Adobe’s Flash product continues to evolve at a staggering rate – with the latest release incorporating many new features that can help enhance website design and functionality. Most commercial websites now incorporate flash content because of its cross platform consistency, rich graphics capabilities and small file sizes.
IACT’s Flash Level 2 course will extend your knowledge to help you build the skills needed to start working with the advanced features in Flash. This course will help you start to build reusable libraries of components that can help make your movies easier to maintain and update.
The course will also explore interface design and storyboarding and in the process introduce briefly the Adobe Illustrator and PhotoShop products as tools for the layout and design of larger scale flash movies. The course will also introduce you to Flash video and you will start to appreciate the flexibility and power video brings to interactive web design.Flash operates virtually identically on both Macintosh and Windows except for a few keyboard commands that have equivalent functions.
Suitable for both Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows
To understand how to work with and use Flash symbols and libraries. To understand how to include end user accessibility features in Flash. To be able to storyboard and plan the layout of a Flash based web interface. To understand the fundamentals of importing bitmap and vector graphics from PhotoShop and Illustrator. To understand how to embed and trigger sound in a flash movie. To be able to control the Flash player using interactive buttons and fsCommands. To be able to embed video and understand video encoding options. To be able to load movies and pictures from external sources. To learn some of the basic commands in actionscript.
Existing Flash designers and those who have attended our Flash Level 1 course and wish to advance their knowledge of Macromedia Flash. Suitable for both MAC and PC users.
