Applicable Job Roles: web designers, graphic designers, and webmasters.

• Find your way around the flash environment.
• Understand the Timeline
• Use rulers, grids and guides
• Be able to change your document properties
• Use the Property panel (inspector)
• Use the zoom tool
• Be able to draw simple graphics
• Be able to work and create colors
• Know how to change fill and stroke attributes

• Be writing with the text tool
• Modify text and paragraph attributes
• Be able to make detailed graphical selections
• Be able to modify simple graphics (flipping, rotating, skewing, distorting)
• Create more complex graphics on a single layer
• Create transparent objects
• Understand grouping
• Know how to change the stacking order of objects
• Be using the align tool
• Know how to combine objects together

• Create graphics on multiple layers
• Understand and organize layers
• Work with different types of layers (Guide, normal, Mask)
• Create layer folders
• Change layer properties
• Distribute graphics to layers
• Know how to import non-Flash graphics
• Know what formats you can import in Flash
• Be able to turn raster graphics into vector graphics

• Understand the Library panel
• Undestand why symbols are so important
• Create, modify and use symbols
• Know how to change one symbol into another
• Be duplicating symbols easily
• Create basic frame-by-frame animations
• Know the difference between frames and keyframes
• Know how to create/add/remove frames or keyframes
• Be able to preview your animations
• Understand and use Onion Skinning
• Be able to edit multiple frames
• Understand the notion of speed or Frame Rate in Flash
• Vary the speed of your animations

• Be able to animate with motion tweening
• Move, rotate, scale and create color effects for your graphics
• Move objects along a path you define
• Morph shapes into other shapes
• Create shapes that move as they change

• Understand how to create scenes
• Animate multiple tweens
• Reverse frames
• Use movie clip symbols
• Create animated masks
• Be able to create more complex animations

• Understand the Actions panel
• Understand some of the basics and possibilities of actionscripting
• Add actions to frames
• Assign frame labels and comments
• Create named anchors
• Control movie playback
• Create basic buttons
• Assign actions to your buttons

• Be able to deliver movies to your audience
• Control movie placement in your browser
• Create HTML pages to play your Flash files
• Work with flash player settings
• Be able to export your movie in formats other than Flash
• Be able to create standalone .exe Flash Projectors
• Understand how to print from Flash