Training Course Outlines:
Course contents includes
Setup for Interactivity & Animation
– Customising the workspace
– Working in pixels
– Helpful preference changes
– Creating an RGB color palette
Creating a Slide Show
– Choosing a document size
– Adding layers to stay organized
– Creating a title slide master page
– Adding placeholder text
– Creating auto page numbers
– Adding placeholder slide navigation buttons
– Creating a content slide master page
– Creating paragraph styles
– Overriding master page items
– Duplicating and moving pages
– Redefining a paragraph style
– Creating navigation buttons
– Customizing the buttons for the first and last slide
– Applying page transitions
– Adding hyperlinks
– Testing hyperlinks before exporting
– Exporting to PDF
Creating PDF Presentations
– Setting initial view options with Acrobat Professional
– Adding a button to enter Full Screen mode
– Adding a tool tip to a button in Acrobat Professional
– Creating bookmarks in InDesign
– Making a button to go to a specific page in a PDF
– Creating “remote rollovers” with Show/Hide Button
Effects for Presentations
– Adding a drop shadow
– Creating a reflection effect for placed images
– Creating the sense of a timeline with page transitions
Creating an Interactive Mood Board
– Using Proportional Place to scale images while placing them
– Placing multiple files as a grid of images
– Adding the URL hyperlink
– Assigning actions to the navigation buttons
– Using groups to create different button state appearances
– Creating a button that hides itself when clicked
– Toggling the visibility of multiple objects with one button
– Creating buttons to hide and show strokes
– Creating buttons to hide and show color values
– Adding the Interactive Page Curl option for Flash (SWF) Expor
Creating a Digital Portfolio
– Starting a document with a double page spread
– Creating the illusion of a book with a cover
– Adding the spiral-bound image to the edges
– Adding the illusion of a gap between the open pages
– Creating a clipped button to close the book
– Applying a subtle drop shadow Object Style
Creating a Digital Magazine with InDesign and Flash
– Exporting a SWF prototype for a Flash developer
– Handing off the InDesign layout by exporting to XFL
– Opening the XFL file in Flash CS4 Professional
– Adding a stop action to the first frame
– Animating the masthead with a Motion Preset
– Testing the animation and preventing it from looping
– Creating an invisible button to go to another page
– Creating a button to return to the first page
– Creating the remaining buttons
– Adding a video to the digital magazine
– Exploring the final “developer” version of the digital magazine
InDesign to Flash Production Tips
– The Combine Textfields extension
– Avoid ligatures if you want to edit text later in Flash
– Using JPEG pass-through for better image quality
