Who should attend this adobe Director training course?
The Adobe Director Introduction
course is an introduction aimed at those who are developing creative multi media tools.
How
long is the Adobe Director training course?
2 Days
What are the benefits of
attending this Adobe Director training Course?
This Adobe Director course contains features
of the application, and will guide you through the creation of a real-world project. By doing
so, you will be introduced to the working environment, many of Adobe Director's powerful tools, and
the design techniques and methods that will enable you to quickly create a professional Adobe
Director movie. You will also be introduced to Lingo, understand the basics and write Lingo code to
control your navigation.
Included in this course:
- Course book
- Lunch
- 3 Months post training support
- Certificate of attendence
Course Outline
Principles and basics
- Menu, keyboard and palette
controls
- Working with a document
- Customising application preferences and
tool settings
- Working with panels and organising the workspace
- Creating
basic elements, selecting and moving objects, applying fills & strokes
- Arranging
and grouping elements; using views, rulers, grids and guides
- Rotating and mirroring
objects
Combining text and graphics
- Using the Blend
command
- Using colours and tints
- Cloning, scaling and positioning
elements
- Placing, styling and transforming type
Working with paths
and points
- Manipulating shapes and paths
- Using a tracing
template
- Using control handles on curves
- Gradient filled text
Using layers and styles
- Importing a tracing pattern
- Background, foreground and other Layers
- Curved paths, path operations, adding
objects to the clipping path
- Defining and applying object styles
- Picture
frames and Layer panels
Multipage documents
- The Edit Guides
command
- Using PANTONE and process colours
- Duplicating pages; importing
text and linking text blocks; paragraph styles
- Using the Text Editor; importing images
and using text wrap
- Adding colours from imported bitmaps
- Printing and
collecting for output
More complex artwork
- 3D images and
transparency effects
- Blending and creating reflections
- Composite
paths
- The Graphic hose tool
- Working with FreeHand’s Xtras e.g. the
Envelope Xtra
- Applying lens fills
Blending and shading
- Creating blends; pasting blends inside paths for 3D shading effects
- Shades on
spheres and cylinders using radial fills
- Creating realistic shadows
- The
finished document; tips and techniques; customising toolbars
Designing for the
Web
- Web browsers & Shockwave plug-ins
- GIF, JPEG and other file
formats
- Animated Flash graphics
- The Insta.html Xtra
- Viewing web pages in a browser
Related Courses
- Dreamweaver
- Flash
- Director
- Fireworks
