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• Introduction to Your Presenter, Bill Dallas Lewis

  Former Author/Computer Illustrator Animator Bill Dallas Lewis shares his
  history and experiance

  9/9/11

  Duration 1:27

• Introduction to the Flash Environment

• Opening Flash for the First time

  Stop the Insanity, Set up your work place so it is easy to use and it works for you. What Flash Panels are always, or never useful.

  9/9/11

  Duration 8:21
• A Quick Overview of Layers, Panels and Tools

  An introduction to the mess you see when you open Flash

  9/9/11

  Duration 6:51
• Actionscript 2 or Actionscript 3?

  A must Read. This decision must be made whenever you create a new file

  9/9/11

  Duration 8:31

• Using Flash Tools and Panels

• Flash Drawing Tools, Vectors, Flash Fill, Stroke and Images

  The more you use Flash Drawing tools, the smaller your file sizes. Understanding Fill and Stroke can help you out in ways you can't imagine.

  9/9/11

  Duration 10:37
• Importing, Vectorizing, and Breaking Apart Images in Flash

  This is lots of fun and can help you save time in your work process.

  9/9/11

  Duration 4:51
• The Pen Tool

  Very similar to the Pen Tool Used in Illustrator and Photoshop

  9/9/11

  Duration 6:41
• The Paint Bucket and Ink Bottle

  I've never seen a Paint Bucket like this in any other program

  9/9/11

  Duration 1:56
• Free Transform Tool, Scale, Rotate and Flip in Adobe Flash

  I use this one All of the time

  9/9/11

  Duration 2:16
• The Flash Swatch Box, Color and Gradient Panels

  Adding specific colors to your swatch box, creating gradients, saving gradients

  9/9/11

  Duration 12:28
• Layer Manipulation and Management

  Hiding, locking, seeing through. Adding and Removing Frames from the timeline with KeyStrokes.

  9/9/11

  Duration 5:25
• Alignment Panel

  Aligning Objects to the Stage and to Each Other

  9/9/11

  Duration 2:37

• Adobe Flash Sound

• Working With Sounds

  Event Sounds, Streaming Sounds, Editing and Importing Sounds

  9/9/11

  Duration 8:14

• Symbols, Graphic, Button and Movie Clips

• Adobe Flash Symbols

  Which One Does What?

  9/9/11

  Duration 6:28
• Symbols in Symbols in Symbols

  Get used to this concept, You'll See it and us it all of the time

  9/9/11

  Duration 6:08

• Flash Animation, Flash Tweening

• What is Tweening?

  The history of the term. 60 years of history.

  9/9/11

  Duration 2:54
• You Can Tween, Animate, in 5 Different Ways that I Know Of

  Motion Tween, Classic Tween, Shape Tween, Frame By Frame, Using Code. First, The Classic Tween

  9/9/11

  Duration 8:12
• The Somewhat New, Motion Tween

  The Motion Tween is Different than the Classic Tween, I use Both

  9/9/11

  Duration 4:29
• Tweening Many Objects at the Same Time

  Setting Up Your Layers First and Letting Flash do Your Job

  9/9/11

  Duration 7:19
• Your Basic Flash Slideshow

  Images Fading into One Another. Yes, You can still make money doing this

  9/9/11

  Duration 10:23
• A slideshow with a little more Zip

  Images Fading , but One Fades out as the other Fades In

  9/9/11

  Duration 2:03
• Selling a Project Many Times with "Swap Image."

  How to Sell the Same Project Again and Again!

  9/9/11

  Duration 3:14
• Animating in a Movie Clip

  This is Very, Very Powerful

  9/9/11

  Duration 12:29
• Animating in a Movie Clip Part 2

  This is Very, Very Powerful, The Bowling Ball

  9/9/11

  Duration 13:16
• Using Frame by Frame Animation

  Using Flash Onion Skinning in a Movie Clip

  9/9/11

  Duration 6:47
• Animating a Background to Create the Illusion of Motion

  Using an Image of Clouds in an Animated Movie Clip to Create the Illustion that a Static Object is Moving

  9/9/11

  Duration 6:25

• The Fun Of Adobe Flash Buttons

• Creating Your Most Basic Flash Button

  Understanding and Creating the Up, Over, Down and Hit States

  9/10/11

  Duration 5:53
• Using and Changing Text in Flash Buttons

  Changing the Text, with Backgrounds in the Flash Up, Over, Down and Hit States

  9/10/11

  Duration 5:07
• Using and Changing Images in Flash Buttons

  Using Different Images in Different States to Make your Flash Buttons Exciting

  9/10/11

  Duration 3:46
• Adding Sounds to the Up, Over or Down Button States.

  Bringing the Sound into the Library and deciding if you make in an Event Sound, or a Streaming Sound

  9/11/11

  Duration 3:16
• Animating Button States With Flash Movie Clips

  Rock Your Buttons with Spins, Fades and Color Changes

  9/11/11

  Duration 8:19
• Invisible Buttons?

  Once You Figure them out, You'll use Them all of the Time

  9/11/11

  Duration 3:22
• The Last Button

  Adding Animation and Sound to the Button

  9/11/11

  Duration 6:20

• Creating Masks

• Masking Is a Blast

  A Mask is a window that you see through

  9/11/11

  Duration 4:03
• Animating Your Masks

  Twisting and Turning Your Windows

  9/11/11

  Duration 4:33
• Creating Masks for Transitions

  It's amazing what you can do.

  9/11/11

  Duration 7:53
• Masking in a Button

  It's all in Your Head

  9/11/11

  Duration 6:23
• Creating a Kaleidoscope Button Via Masking.

  This is pretty Cool

  9/11/11

  Duration 9:13

• Navigation

• Creating Navigation in Your Flash Movie with Frame Labels, Actionscript 2

  Buttons, Frame Labels, Stop Actions and More

  9/11/11

  Duration 10:22
• Using Flash Levels. Actionscript 2

  Most People Don't Know About Levels. They are very powerful if you can wrap your head around them.

  9/14/11

  Duration 10:55

• Explaining Actionscript

• What is An Action?

  Flash Predefined Functions, Flash Statements, Flash Arguments

  9/14/11

  Duration 7:10
• The Flash Magical Movie Clip

  A predefined Object with Methods and Properties

  9/14/11

  Duration 6:02
• Talking to Objects with Code

  Targeting the MovieClip to do things with Actionscript 2

  9/14/11

  Duration 4:48

"I used to hate Flash because it frustrated me. Bill Helped me get into control."

Robert, Greensville, NC

"It was like he was in the room with me. I could see his computer, and most of the time he looked at mine. He could see everything I did in real time and the audio quality was like FM radio. We meet with him everyweek for two hours, and never leave my house."

Adam, Portland, OR