Course Outline:

Understanding the Flash Workspace Toolbars and panels The stage and timeline Creating a New Movie Setting a frame rate Creating scenes Drawing and Editing Strokes The line and pencil tools The ink bottle tool The stroke panel Drawing and Editing Fills Rectangle and oval tools Brush, bucket and eyedropper Gradient and bitmap fills The eraser tool Drawing and Editing Text Objects The text tool Character and paragraph panels Creating a hyperlink Outline text Transforming Drawings and Text Snapping objects Aligning and scaling Grouping, stacking and rotation

Working with Layers Inserting and deleting Re-ordering and renaming Hiding and locking Creating a mask Importing and Editing Bitmaps Importing to the library Breaking apart Re-editing Symbols, Instances and Libraries Symbols – what they do Creating an instance Using the library Basic Animations Frame by frame Working with keyframes Using onion skins Testing Motion Tweening Object animation Text animation Using a guide layer Shape Tweening Morphing (shape animation) Shape hints Multi-Level Animation Animated symbols