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From the Library of Joseph Bradley ptg iv CONTENTS CONTENTS GETTING STARTED 1 About Classroom in a Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Installing Flash Catalyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Optimizing performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Checking for updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Flash Player version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Copying the lesson  les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 How to use these lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Standard elements in the book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Adobe certi cation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1 GETTING TO KNOW ADOBE FLASH CATALYST CS5 8 Lesson Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 About Flash Catalyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Is Flash Catalyst the right tool for you? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Key features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Additional bene ts for designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Flash Catalyst design work ow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Opening a new Flash Catalyst project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Finding your way around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Design workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Code workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Opening an existing Flash Catalyst project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 From the Library of Joseph Bradley ptg ADOBE FLASH CATALYST CS5 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK v Exploring the Design workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Moving around the workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Adjusting panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Zooming the artboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Panning the artboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Previewing a project in a browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Getting Flash Catalyst Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2 PREPARING, IMPORTING, AND PLACING ARTWORK 28 Lesson Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Preparing a design document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Choose your design application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Plan the structure of your application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Group complex objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Flatten artwork with  lters and e ects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Name everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Embed images in the design document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Manage fonts when sharing  les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Identify duplicate component assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Set component properties in Flash Catalyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Create sample artwork for a list of images or text . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Hide, show, and lock layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Exporting an FXG  le from Adobe Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Importing artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Import a design document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Import additional images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Position images in the artboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Optimizing artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Optimize artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 From the Library of Joseph Bradley ptg vi CONTENTS 3 MANAGING THE LIBRARY 46 Lesson Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Viewing the Library panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 How do assets get into the Library panel? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Add assets to the Library panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Preview  les in the Library panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Deleting assets from the project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Compressing images in the Library panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Renaming project assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using assets in the Library panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Sharing project libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Export a library package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Import a library package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4 MANAGING LAYERS 60 Lesson Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Exploring the Layers panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Expand and collapse layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Show and hide layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Lock and unlock layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Grouping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Renaming objects in the Layers panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Optimizing complex groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Adding and deleting layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Stacking artwork using layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 5 WORKING WITH PAGES AND STATES 74 Lesson Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Page and component states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Duplicating and modifying page states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Save time by duplicating page states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Give page states descriptive names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 From the Library of Joseph Bradley ptg ADOBE FLASH CATALYST CS5 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK vii Show and hide artwork in each page state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Adding and deleting states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Add a blank page state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Add objects to blank page states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Delete objects from speci c states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Delete page states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 6 CREATING INTERACTIVE COMPONENTS 88 Lesson Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 The building blocks of RIAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Using wireframe components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Add and modify wireframe buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Add wireframe text input  elds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Add wireframe radio buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Add a wireframe check box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Add wireframe scroll bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Converting artwork to built-in components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Convert artwork to buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Create a reusable navigation button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Enable and disable buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Create next and previous buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Create a custom toggle button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Convert artwork to scroll bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Work with text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109 Create a scroll panel from artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112 Creating custom components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Adding interactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Add page navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Create conditional interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Link to external content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119 From the Library of Joseph Bradley ptg viii CONTENTS 7 CREATING TRANSITIONS AND ACTION SEQUENCES 122 Lesson Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122 Transitions and action sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124 Inspecting default transition e ects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Adding smooth transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Fine-tuning transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129 Adjust transition duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130 Change transition timing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Ease transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Adding and changing e ects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133 Swap one e ect for another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134 Add multiple e ects to the same object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136 Adding action sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138 Add an action sequence interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138 Edit an action sequence in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139 Flash Catalyst helper e ects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140 8 ADDING AND CONTROLLING VIDEO AND SOUND 142 Lesson Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142 Preparing video for the web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144 What is encoding? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144 What is a video codec? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144 How do I encode my video? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145 Importing and previewing video and sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146 Import video and sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Preview video and sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Adding video to an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148 Add video to the artboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148 Set video player properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150 Controlling video playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Attach controls to the video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152 From the Library of Joseph Bradley [...]... purchase the Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 software either as a stand-alone application or as part of Adobe Creative Suite By default, Flash Player 10 , Adobe Media Encoder CS5, Adobe AIR, and Adobe Media Player are installed along with Flash Catalyst For system requirements and complete instructions on installing the Flash Catalyst software, see the ReadMe.pdf file on the application DVD Install Flash Catalyst. .. You will have more success with Flash Catalyst if you are already familiar with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Fireworks, and have a basic understanding of structuring artwork using layers and groups This book assumes no programming experience If you are a designer wishing to learn Flash Catalyst, but perhaps are a little daunted by code, this book is for you Installing Flash Catalyst You... techniques covered in the book, but also gain enough understanding of the application to be able to learn additional techniques on your own If you’ve ADOBE FLASH CATALYST CS5 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK 1 From the Library of Joseph Bradley already started working with Flash Catalyst, you’ll find that Classroom in a Book teaches advanced features, including tips and technique and best practices Although each lesson... your original artwork and design vision when producing interactive content About Classroom in a Book Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Classroom in a Book is part of the official training series for the Adobe Flash platform The lessons are designed so that you can learn at your own pace If you’re new to Flash Catalyst, you’ll learn the fundamental concepts and features you’ll need to accomplish a wide range of techniques... have an active Internet connection 1 In Flash Catalyst CS5, choose Help > Update The Adobe Application Manager automatically checks for updates available for your Adobe software 2 In the Adobe Application Manager dialog box, select and download the updates you want to install A message tells you if your application is already up to date If the application is up to date, click Quit to close the Application... technology available You can also use Flash Catalyst to publish Adobe AIR applications AIR leverages the power of Flash Player while adding the capability to deploy RIAs directly to the desktop 10 LESSON 1 Getting to Know Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 From the Library of Joseph Bradley Key features Flash Catalyst offers tremendous power, including some key features • Design using your favorite Adobe Creative... using Flash Catalyst are deployed as SWF files (the Flash Player file format) and viewed using a browser with Flash Player 10 For information on Flash Player version penetration visit: www .adobe. com/products/player_census/flashplayer In Lesson 12 , you will publish a project as an Adobe AIR application for deploying to the desktop When you install and play the AIR application, you may be required to install... videos that cover Adobe developer products and technologies ADOBE FLASH CATALYST CS5 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK 5 From the Library of Joseph Bradley Resources for educators: www .adobe. com/education includes three free curriculums that use an integrated approach to teaching Adobe software and can be used to prepare for the Adobe Certified Associate exams Adobe Forums: http://forums .adobe. com lets you tap into peer-to-peer... • Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) • Adobe Authorized Training Center (AATC) The Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) credential certifies that individuals have the entry-level skills to plan, design, build, and maintain effective communications using different forms of digital media The Adobe Certified Expert program is a way for expert users to upgrade their credentials You can use Adobe certification as a catalyst. .. Library of Joseph Bradley 1 GETTING TO KNOW ADOBE FLASH CATALYST CS5 Lesson Overview Using Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, you can produce beautifully designed and highly interactive content for the web or desktop without authoring any code This lesson introduces you to some of the key features and benefits of Flash Catalyst You will explore the basic layout of the Flash Catalyst Design workspace, open a new . Adobe After Eff ects, Adobe AIR, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Encore, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flash Builder, Adobe Flash Catalyst, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Flex, Adobe. software either as a stand-alone application or as part of Adobe Creative Suite. By default, Flash Player 10 , Adobe Media Encoder CS5, Adobe AIR, and Adobe Media Player are installed along. you are a designer wishing to learn Flash Catalyst, but perhaps are a little daunted by code, this book is for you. Installing Flash Catalyst You must purchase the Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 software