Macromedia Flash Training Course in Birmingham

Introduction to design and animation with Macromedia Flash.
Beginners Macromedia Flash course in Birmingham and Midlands

With this Macromedia Flash training you will learn the basics of animation and design. The Macromedia Flash course will give you the skills you need to get started creating animation and interactive designs.

One to one or small group Macromedia Flash training.

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Macromedia Flash course summary

Macromedia Flash course duration:  1 or 2 days
Software: Macromedia Flash MX and Macromedia Flash MX2004, Macromedia Flash 8
Level:  beginners and some intermediate.
Numbers: One to one or small groups of up to 4.
Trainees in a group should have the same skill level and the same requirements.

 

Macromedia Flash Training - Course Outline

Creating a new Flash movie
Setting movie properties

Using drawing and painting tools
Creating simple shapes and artwork
Using Fill and Stroke colours
Using the Bezier tool

Working with text
Setting text attributes - font, colour, size

Working with imported images and graphics
Image size and resolution

Resizing/reshaping objects

Basic timeline animation
Tweening
Keyframes
Symbols & Instances

Animating movement, colour and shape changes
Scaling and rotating images or graphics over time
Making changes to colours and opacity over time

Active links
Creating and using text or buttons as links
    to other scenes in the Flash movie
    to web site URLs
Mouseover effects on active links
Importing sounds and using sounds on an action or event

Creating different scenes in a movie and linking the scenes together

Creating animated banners, interactive presentation, or other simple projects of your choice.

Previewing and checking file sizes
Publishing movie and adding to a web page

 

Macromedia Flash course requirements:
You must have good computer skills.
It will be helpful if you have some experience with graphics applications such as Photoshop or Fireworks for basic image editing, you should especially understand how to make adjustments to image size and resolution. This can be included in the training if required as part of a 2 day Macromedia flash course.

It would also be helpful if you have some basic knowledge of website design (e.g. HTML editing or Dreamweaver). Adding a flash animation to a web page can be included in a 2 day course in required.

Courses are available for Photoshop, Fireworks and Dreamweaver also if required.

 

Intermediate/advanced Macromedia Flash training - including advanced animation techniques and Actionscript - can usually be arranged with another trainer ( depending on your location).

 

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