Learn web design, production, and digital communication from how-to information, subject experts, and tutorials. For more on teaching these skills, see the free Adobe Digital Design curriculum on adobe.com/education.
Now you can play video right on the stage in Flash CS5, allowing for great control. Combine that with easy-to-use cue points and new skins and you’ll quickly realize video has never been easier.
In this video Paul will show you how to not only use inverse kinematics in Flash, but also how to make movement feel more lifelike by giving it some natural springiness.
Join trainer Paul Trani as he shows off new features in Flash Professional CS5's Actionscript editor. Features like custom class code hinting and code completion, as well as automatic writing of the import statement for libraries will help streamline your workflow.
Actionscript Code Snippets in Flash Professional CS5
In this episode, trainer Paul Trani shows off one of his favorite features in Flash Professional CS5: Actionscript Code Snippets. He'll show you how to use and modify existing snippets to quickly add functionality to your project, as well as creating and saving your own snippets for later use.
Getting Started (GS): What is Flash Professional CS5?
Learn about Flash CS5, the industry-standard tool for creating interactive, rich media content, including animation and applications for the web, the desktop, and even mobile devices.
Learn how to tell the difference between frames, keyframes, and blank keyframes by using visual cues on the Timeline. Learn what each type of frame in the Timeline indicates about the contents of the Stage.
Learn to use the library to organize the reusable assets in your file. Preview, sort, and organize assets into folders in the Library panel. Switch between the libraries of open files and re-use assets between files.
Place one symbol inside another by using a technique in Flash called nesting. Learn to create nested symbols, drag instances from the library, edit artwork in Symbol Editing mode, and use the breadcrumb trail to navigate back to the main Timeline.
Convert any piece of artwork into a movie clip symbol. Learn the differences between movie clips and other types of symbols. Understand the relationship between a movie clip and the main Timeline.
Understand the differences between the object and merge drawing modes in Flash. Toggle between the two modes when creating shapes, make shape selections, and convert drawing objects to merge.
Layers allow you to organize the contents of the Stage from front to back. Objects on a layer can be shown, hidden, edited, or moved at the same time. Move objects into layers by using the Distribute To Layers command.
Animate a symbol by applying a motion tween to the Timeline. Extend the duration of an animation by adding frames. Position the symbol to define the start point and end point of the motion tween.
Flash CS5 introduces a new text layout engine, the Text Layout Framework (TLF), which enables highly flexible and customizable text display. Set up a document to use the TLF engine. Learn about the three different types of TLF text.
Use the Text tool to create text with the Text Layout Framework (TLF). Adjust a wide range of text settings, such as casing, justification, padding, and alignment in the Property inspector.
Create a button symbol from text, a bitmap image, or a vector shape. Define keyframes for the up, over, down, and hit states of the button, and swap out the artwork for the different states.
Learn about using Dreamweaver CS5 to design, develop, and deploy websites. The benefits of Dreamweaver include its visual workflow, advanced site management capabilities, and support for technologies such as JavaScript, PHP, and XML.
Site setup in Dreamweaver CS5 is simple, quick, and efficient. Learn how easy it is to set up a local Dreamweaver site by using the Site Setup dialog box so you can get started right away.
Dreamweaver CS5 advances the process of building CSS-based, standards-compliant sites with three new key features: CSS starter layouts, CSS inspection, and CSS enable/disable.
Start a new project in Dreamweaver CS5 by defining a new site, which activates Dreamweaver's ability to resolve links, check related files, and manage assets. Establish a root directory and name the site in the Site Setup dialog box.
Create new web pages quickly by using the default document preferences defined for your site, or customize a new page by using the New Document dialog box.
Use Dreamweaver's Code view and the Property inspector to add formatting to your content as you type, ensuring the structural integrity of your page’s HTML.
Use the Assets panel to manage images, movies, scripts, and other files related to your website. Preview assets, filter assets by using the panel categories, locate assets embedded within a site, and organize assets by using folders and favorites.
Explore different techniques in Dreamweaver CS5 for adding images and artwork to your website. Use the Insert menu or the Common category of the Insert panel to select and insert an image, or drag and drop images from the Files or Assets panels.
Create links from text, images, and other elements on a web page by using various techniques in Dreamweaver CS5. Learn how to set the link text, a link title for accessibility, link target, and destination.
Learn the benefits of cascading style sheets—collections of formatting attributes applied to a single element, a whole page, or an entire website. Distinguish between external and internal styles and learn how CSS makes your website more efficient.
GS-08: Controlling CSS from the Property inspector
Perform CSS-related tasks directly from the Property inspector, without having to go the CSS Styles panel. Style font, font size, color, and more for any existing targeted rule.
Focus on specific content regions and make precise edits to a web page with Dreamweaver's Live view and CSS Inspect. Make changes to your style sheets and preview the results without leaving the application.
Add site functionality with ease by using the new Widget Browser. Set up and install the Widget Browser, explore Adobe Exchange, Adobe's new community-based online resource for widgets, and see a sample integration of a slideshow widget.
In this episode we’ll look at Dreamweaver CS5’s new CSS Inspect feature - which helps you deeply visualize and edit your CSS layout structure by just moving your mouse in Live View.
Adobe BrowserLab is a great way to visualize your designs across popular browsers and operating systems. With Dreamweaver CS5’s BrowserLab integration, you can even preview interactive states of your sites and applications!
With Dreamweaver CS5’s new Live View Navigation, you can navigate Live View right to a specific dynamic ‘view’ of a web application, and then work with it’s CSS properties in real time. Designing dynamic applications has never been easier!
You can now design dynamic PHP applications like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla within Dreamweaver CS5. Dynamically-related files helps make quick sense of the variety of code assets that you’ll need to navigate on these applications.
Learn the Top 3 Features of Flash Professional CS5. Includes the Flash Text Engine, new Text Layout Panels, iPhone App Development, streamlined workflow with FXG support and the ability to import between the Flash tools, Photoshop and Illustrator. (We know that sounds like more than 3)
Join Russell Brown as he continues to talk about the benefits of Adobe Photoshop CS5's new Content Aware Fill feature and how to get the best results from it.
Learn web design, production, and digital communication from how-to information, subject experts, and tutorials. For more on teaching these skills, see the free Adobe Digital Design curriculum on adobe.com/education.
