Course Description
Adobe Flash CS4 is a hands-on one day introduction to the key aspects of working with Flash CS4 to create professional animations, design interactive websites and incorporate audio and video into self-contained presentations.
The course content to the right is that which will be covered. Attendees are encouraged to ask specific questions, taking the course into more or less detail on any of these topics plus others, where required.

Who should attend?
This Adobe Flash CS4 course is intended for new users of Flash, who want to become productive in the shortest possible time.

Prerequisites
Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending this course:
• Basic Mac OS X knowledgeor

Costs
£275* per trainee. Training at GBM includes refreshments, a light lunch, course notes or a suitable reference book.
*All Prices exclude VAT

Introduction
Flash Drawing Tools; Creating Vector; Graphics in Flash; Colouring and Editing; Gradients and Line Styles; Drawing for Animation.

Symbols
Creating Symbols; Turing Graphics into Symbols; Creating Symbols from Scratch; The Library Palette; Symbol Definitions, Movie Clip, Graphic Clip, Buttons.

Animation
The Timeline and Frame Rate, The Playhead, Layers, Frame Control, Onion Skinning, Properties Palette; Differences between Keyframes and Frames; Copying a complete Timeline; Transferring across Layers; Motion Tween; Common mistakes and misconceptions; Adjusting the rate; Easing in and out; Creating a Motion Guide, Tween along a curved path.

Adding Sound
Importing sounds; Resources; Sound Effects; Removing Sound

Masking Objects and Movies
Creating Masks; Previewing them; Mask shortcomings

Nested Timelines
Timelines within timelines; Techniques employed

Buttons
The Graphics appearance of Buttons; Controlling the over state appearance

Basic Actionscript for Navigation
Apply Actionscript to Buttons; Understanding Linkage

Publishing to HTML and SWF