Elstree Film Studios - Training Courses - Flash Catalyst
This course introduces designers to the tools and techniques available in Flash Catalyst. It is especially useful for designers who need to create functional prototypes for their designs, or for developers who need to understand the design aspects of Rich Internet Applications which use the Flash platform. There are no pre-requisites for this course, although experience with Adobe design tools (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks or Flash) would be of benefit.
Duration: 1 day.
Location: 21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [
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Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.
Software Versions: All of our Adobe courses include lessons generic to CS3, CS4 and CS5 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in detail. Our Apple training courses utilise Final Cut Studio HD (also known of as version 3 or FCS 2009).
Equipment: Our fully featured training room includes six top-of-the-range iMac computers configured to work in both Macintosh (OSX) and PC (Windows) modes, ensuring you the maximum familiarity with your chosen operating system.
Accommodation: Details of local accomodation can be found
here.
Further assistance: Our
FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call
0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.
COURSE CONTENT
Preparing, Importing and Placing Artwork
- Preparing a design document
- Flattening artwork with filters and effects
- Embedding images in the design document
- Setting component properties
- Importing and optimizing artwork
Managing the Library
- Adding assets to the Library panel
- Previewing files in the Library panel
- Compressing images in the Library panel
Managing Layers
- Expand and collapse layers
- Show, hide, lock and unlock layers
- Grouping and renaming objects in the Layers panel
- Adding and deleting layers
Working with Pages and States
- Page and component states
- Duplicating and modifying page states
- Show and hide artwork in each page state
- Adding and deleting states
Creating Interactive Components
- Components and Interactions
- Using wireframe components
- Add and modify wireframe buttons, text fields, radio buttons and check boxes
- Converting artwork to built-in components and buttons
- Create next and previous buttons
- Working with text
Creating Transitions and Action Sequences
- Adding smooth transitions
- Change transition timing
- Ease transitions
- Adding and changing effects
Adding and Controlling Video and Sound
- Importing and previewing video and sound
- Adding video to an application
- Add video to the artboard
- Set video player properties
- Controlling video playback
- Attach controls to the video
- Adding sound effects
Designing with Data
- Flash Catalyst data lists
- Using design-time data
- Replace design-time images
- Edit design-time text
Drawing and Editing Artwork
- Flash Catalyst drawing tools
- Using the rulers, guides, and grid
- Drawing basic shapes and lines
- Draw rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses and basic lines
- Changing stroke and fill
- Change the fill colour
- Add and modify gradient fills
- Grouping and transforming objects
- Add and modify a bevel and a drop shadow
Publishing a Project
- Publishing your application
- Publish to SWF
