Drawing and Working with Images in Flash CS4


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
Flash CS4 Professional provides a range of tools that can be used to create impressive graphics and illustrations for your movies. Drawing in the Flash environment produces vector graphics – artwork made from straight or curved lines with clean edges – that allow you to scale drawings without lowering the quality of the overall illustration. You can also import and manipulate bitmap images including JPEGs and PNGs. In addition, Flash CS4 Professional provides improved integration with the other Adobe design tools, including Illustrator and Photoshop. This course introduces the learner to drawing in Flash. It demonstrates how to use the drawing tools, give 2D objects a 3D appearance, and how to import, manipulate, and optimize graphics.

Target Audience
A range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Drawing and Working with Images in Flash CS4

  • recognize how to create and edit geometric shapes
  • recognize how to use the Line Tool in Flash CS4
  • recognize how to use the Pencil Tool in Flash CS4
  • recognize how to use the Brush Tool in Flash CS4
  • recognize how the Pen Tool can be used in Flash CS4
  • recognize how to use the Spray Brush Tool in Flash CS4
  • recognize how to use the Deco Tool
  • recognize how to use the selection tools in Flash CS4
  • recognize how to use modification tools in Flash CS4
  • create and modify graphics in Flash CS4
  • recognize how to use the 3D tools in Flash CS4
  • recognize how to create colors in Flash CS4
  • recognize how to trace bitmaps in Flash CS4
  • recognize how to optimize JPEG images in Flash CS4
  • identify key considerations for minimizing file size in Flash CS4
  • recognize how to manipulate an object in 3D space
  • create a new color in Flash CS4, for a given example
  • convert an example JPEG image to a vector image in Flash CS4
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