Aligning Text
1. Click inside the paragraph you want to align.
2. Go to the top, choose Text, then Align, and then either left, center, right or justify.
3. Another way to do that is to go to Properties, at the bottom of your screen and choose either left, center, right or justify.
Indenting Text
1. You can indent by going up to Insert,
2. Then choose HTML,
3. Then choose the Special Characters submenu and click on non-breaking space.
Using the Start Page; Using the New Dialog Box
1. The start page is the starting point for both creating and modifying pages and sites. If you close all your open dreamweaver windows, the start page reappears.
2. Choose File, then New,
3. The New Document Dialog box appears
4. Set to General Tab
5. Click to choose one of the items in the category column
6. The second column changes to show available items for that category
7. Click the item you want in the second column
8. Click create
Dreamweaver creates the new document and displays it in a new window
Ashley Rolley
Graphic Design III
What is a mouse event? How many are there in Flash?
Describe each for the Class.
What is a mouse event?
• A mouse event is something that requires input with a mouse.
How many are there in Flash?
• There are eight mouse events in Flash.
Mouse Events
• Press: refers to the downward part of the click when the pointer is located within the hit area of a button.
• Release: refers to the upward part of a click (the user presses and then releases the mouse button) when the pointer is located within the hit area of a button.
• Release Outside: happens when the user clicks inside the button area, holds down the mouse button, and moves the mouse outside the active button area before releasing the mouse button.
• Key Press: happens anytime the user presses the specified keyboard key while the flash button is resent on screen. The user doesn’t have to use the mouse to interact with the button for this event to trigger action.
• Roll Over: occurs anytime the pointer rolls into the button’s hit area when the mouse button hasn’t been pressed.
• Drag Over: works in a slightly unexpected way. A Drag Over event occurs when the user clicks and holds down the mouse button within the button’s hit area, rolls the pointer outside the hit area, and then rolls the pointer back into the hit area, all without releasing the mouse button.
• Drag Out: happens when the user clicks within the button’s hit area, holds down the mouse button, and rolls the pointer out of the hit area.
Ashley Rolley
Graphic Design III
What is a button symbol? Creating a Basic Button Symbol
WHAT IS A BUTTON SYMBOL?
· A Button is a Flash Movie clip with different frames that represent the button in all its possible states.
· Up, down and over are the three button state frames plus the one frame that defines the active button area.
CREATING A BASIC BUTTON SYMBOL
· Open a new flash document
· Choose insert then new symbol
· Type a name for it, in the behavior section you must choose either movie clip, button or graphic,choose button.
· Then click ok
· It gives you the up, down, hit by default
· The up button has keyframes, you have to add them for over, down, and hit by going to Insert, Timeline, keyframe
· This copies what you had from the up frame to the next one
· Then you just change the color, word, or graphic so you can see the difference.
button symbol
Ashley Rolley
Graphic Design III
Changing Tween speed – easing (not custom easing)
Changing Tween Speed
Pgs. 292-297
1. Create 10 keyframes, then creae a 10 frame motion tween that follows along a motion guide.
2. Select any frame
3. Go to bottom where it says Properties and then enter a negative number in the ease field.
4. Press Enter
IN (the lower the ease value, the greater the rate of acceleration)
OUT(the higher the ease value, the greater the deceleration)
Ashley Rolley
Graphic Design III
Removing Frames-Clear vs. Remove
Why use one vs. the other: The Indeliable Keyframe
Deleting a single frame; Deleting a range of frames
Clear vs. Remove: The clear keyframe command removes the keyframe status from a selected frame or range of frames. This has no effect on the number of frames in the movie just clears the content from a frame.
Clearing Frames:
· Select an inbetween frame
· Go to the top, choose modify, timeline, then clear keyframe (shift F6)
Removing Frames:
· Select a keyframe
· Go to the top, choose edit, then timeline, then remove frames (shift F5)
· This deletes the frame and the overall length of the movie by one frame
The Indeliable Keyframe (3 different ways)
1. TO REMOVE ENTIRE KEYFRAME SPAN:
-select a keyframe and it’s inbetween frames
- go to edit, timeline, then remove frames
2. TO REMOVE THE CONTENT AND KEYFRAME, BUT ADD THE LEFTOVER IN-BETWEEN FRAMES TO THE PRECEDING SPAN:
-select a keyframe
-delete the contents of the stage
-then go to edit, timeline, then remove frames
3. TO REMOVE THE CONTENT, CONVERT THE KEYFRAME TO AN IN-BETWEEN FRAME, AND ADD IT AND THE LEFTOVER IN-BETWEEN FRAMES TO THE PRECEDING KEYFRAME:
-select a keyframe
-go to modify, timeline, clear keyframe
-then if you prefer, use the remove frames command to reduce the number of in-between frames.
Deleting a Single Frame:
· Select a single keyframe
· Choose edit, timeline, remove frames
Deleting a Range of frames:
· Select several keyframes
· Choose edit, timeline, remove frames
Graphic Design III
-Organizing Layers in folders, cutting and pasting between layers,
demonstrate two ways to paste, using Distribute to Layers-
Organizing layers in folders:
*existing layers can be dragged into folders to organize the timeline.
-how to move layers into folders:
· Place pointer over the layer
· Drag it over the folder which you want to place the layer in
· Release the mouse button
Cutting & Pasting between layers:
· Open a document that has several layers
· Put one or more elements in all but one layer and leave one layer empty
· Select a shape by clicking over top of the shape with the mouse
· Go to the top, place mouse over edit then click copy
· In the layer menu on the left, click the empty layer
· Choose edit again (at the top) and then click paste in center
Distribute to Layers:
· Open a new document
· Create several shapes in the same layer
· Go to the top, choose edit, then click on select all
· Go to the top again, choose modify, then timeline, then click on distribute to layers
Ashley Rolley
Graphic Design III
Creating Free Form Shapes
Topic: Text, pages 63-70
Creating Free Form Shapes
· Pencil
· Pen
· Brush
Pencil Tool
· Select the pencil tool (or Y)
· Go to options at bottom of tools menu and choose “straighten, smoothe, or ink.”
· Click on blank page and draw a line or shape.
Pen Tool
· Select the pen tool (or P)
· Change stroke as you prefer
· Click where you want the line to begin and then where you want the line to end
· To make a curved line click and drag
· Drag pointer in the opposite direction as you want it to curve
Brush Tool
· Select the brush tool (or B)
· To change the shape, size, mode, or pressure go to the options menu
· Click on the blank page and begin creating your desired shape.
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