Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Course Description
This 2-day Adobe Flash Catalyst training will give students the knowledge required to create rich interactive experiences with Flash Catalyst CS5, Adobe's exciting new interaction design tool. Flash Catalyst CS5 lets designers create real Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR applications without having to learn ActionScript. Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Course Objectives
- Preparing, Importing, and Placing Artwork
- Managing Layers
- Working with Pages and States
- Creating Interactive Components
- Adding and Controlling Video and Sound
- Designing with Data
Required Prerequisites for the Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 course
Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Course Outline
- Getting to know Adobe Flash Catalyst
- About Flash Catalyst
- Key features
- Flash Catalyst design workflow
- Design workspace
- Code workspace
- Adjusting Panels
- Zooming the artboard
- Previewing the project in a browser
- Preparing, Importing, and Placing Artwork
- Preparing a design document
- Choose your design application
- Plan the structure of your application
- Group complex objects
- Flatten artwork with filters and effects
- Name everything
- Embed images in the design document
- Manage fonts when sharing files
- Identify duplicate component assets
- Set component properties in Flash Catalyst
- Create sample artwork for the list of images or text
- Hide, show, and lock layers
- Exporting an FXG file from Adobe Fireworks
- Importing artwork
- Importing a design document
- Import additional images
- Position images in the artboard
- Optimizing artwork
- Managing the Library
- Viewing the Library panel
- How do assets get into the Library panel?
- Add assets to the Library panel
- Preview files in the Library panel
- Deleting assets from the project
- Compressing images in the Library panel
- Renaming project assets
- Using assets in the Library panel
- Sharing project libraries
- Exporting a library package
- Importing a library package
- Managing Layers
- Exploring the Layers panel
- Expand and collapse layers
- Show and hide layers
- Lock and unlock layers
- Grouping objects
- Renaming objects in the Layers panel
- Optimizing complex groups
- Adding and deleting layers
- Stacking artwork using layers
- Working with Pages and States
- Page and component states
- Duplicating and modifying page states
- Save time by duplicating page states
- Give page states descriptive names
- Show and hide artwork in each page state
- Adding and deleting states
- Add a blank page states
- Add objects to blank page states
- Delete page states
- Creating interactive components
- The building blocks of RIA's
- Components
- Interactions
- Using wireframe components
- Add and modify wireframe buttons
- Add wireframe text input fields
- Add wireframe radio buttons
- Add a wireframe checkbox
- Add wireframe scroll bars
- Converting artwork to built-in components
- Convert artwork to buttons
- Create a reusable navigation button
- Enable and disable buttons
- Creating next and previous buttons
- Create a custom toggle button
- Convert artwork to scroll bars
- Work with text
- Create a scroll panel form artwork
- Creating custom components
- Adding interactivity
- Add page navigation
- Create conditional interactions
- Link to external content
- Creating transitions and action sequences
- Inspecting default transition effects
- Adding smooth transitions
- Fine-tuning transitions
- Adjust transition duration
- Change transitions timing
- Ease transitions
- Adding and changing effects
- Swap one effect for another
- Add multiple effects to the same object
- Adding action sequences
- Add an action sequence interaction
- Edit an action sequence in the Timeline
- Flash Catalyst helper effects
- Adding and controlling video and sound
- Preparing video for the web
- What is encoding?
- What is a video codec?
- How do I encode my video?
- Importing and previewing video and sound
- Import video and sound
- Preview 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
- Add interactions to control video playback
- Reset the video after playing
- Adding sound effects
- Integrating SWF content from other creative suite tools
- SWF files
- Creating SWF files for Flash Catalyst
- Using SWF files in Flash Catalyst
- Adding SWF files to Flash Catalyst
- Import a SWF file to the artboard
- Preview a SWF animation
- Controlling the playback of SWF files
- Play or stop a SWF file
- Play the SWF movie from a specific frame
- Adding a SWF file to a component
- Position a SWF file
- Add effects to play the animation
- Designing with Data
- Flash Catalyst data lists
- What is design-time data?
- Preview a data list
- Creating a Data List component
- Design a sample record
- Convert the sample record into a Data List component
- Define the repeated item
- Setting data list properties
- Size and position the bounding box
- Edit the repeated item layout
- Edit the repeated item states
- Using design-time text
- Add and delete design-time data
- Add and remove elements in the repeated item
- Using a wireframe data list
- Drawing and editing artwork
- Flash Catalyst drawing tools
- Using the rulers, guides and grid
- Show and hide rulers
- Edit grid and guide settings
- Set guides for precise drawing
- Drawing basic shapes and lines
- Preview a drawing example
- Draw rectangles
- Draw rounded rectangles
- Draw ellipses
- Draw basic lines
- Changing stroke and fill
- Change the fill color
- Change stroke color and weight
- Add an modify gradients fills
- Grouping and transforming
- Group objects
- Transform shapes
- Size and position objects
- Applying and removing filters
- Add and modify a bevel
- Add and modify and drop shadow
- Round-trip editing and Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
- Launch and edit in Adobe Illustrator
- Download and install the Adobe FXG extensions for Photoshop
- Launch and edit in Adobe Photoshop
- Publishing a project
- Delivery options
- Publishing your application
- Accessibility
- Embedding fonts
- Before you publish
- Publish to SWF
- Viewing the published files
- Publishing to the web with Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
- Create a local root folder and site structure
- Connect to a remote site
- Upload files
- Extending your project using Adobe Flash Builder
- Extending your application
- Bind components to a data source
- Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD)
- Provide a keyword search
- Collect user input
- Use sliders to set values
- Create printer controls
- Exploring designer-developer workflows
- Linear workflow
- Iterative workflow
- Preparing files for a developer
- Use data lists and design-time data
- Name everything
- Delete unused assets
- Opening a Flash Catalyst project in Flash Builder
- Review the final Flash Catalyst project file (FXP)
- Import FXP into Flash Builder
- Import and edited FXP file into Flash Builder
- Compare and integrate code between projects
- Importing a Flash Catalyst library file (FXPL)
- Import the FXPL
- Associate the FXPL with your application
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- Expert in Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, and Access as well as Adobe Graphic and Web Designer (InDesign, Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash Catalyst)
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