Basics Of Image Manipulation
• Retouching and image size
• Straightening and cropping an image, tonal range
• Replacing colors in an image, Dodge tool, Sponge tool,
• Unsharp Mask filter, four-color printing

Working with Selections
• Selection tools,
• Magic Wand tool, oval and circular selections,
• Magnetic Lasso tool, lasso tools, and erasing within a selection

Layer Basics
• Rearranging layers, Editing text
• Flattening and saving files
• Creating a layer set and adding a layer

Clone
• Clone Stamp tool, Pattern Stamp tool

Painting and Editing
• Custom workspace,
• Blending an image with the background, history tools,
• Brush tool, create a picture frame, Color Section

Basic Pen Tool Techniques
• Pen tool, Drawing straight paths,
• Drawing curved, Editing anchor points

Vector Masks, Paths, and Shapes
• About bitmap images and vector graphics

Advanced Layer Techniques
• Creating layer sets, adjustment layer, gradient layer, layer from another file,
• Duplicating and clipping a layer

Creating Special Effects
• Changing the color balance
• Applying filters

Optimizing Web Images
• Optimizing images using Photoshop or ImageReady
• Optimizing a JPEG, GIF,
• Controlling dither and reducing colors, dithered transparency

Macromedia Flash MX Animations

Flash Authoring Tool
• Working with Flash Documents, Template, Document Properties, Rulers, Grids, and Guides, Snapping,
• Magnifications, Panels, Property Inspector

Creating Simple Graphics
• Tools, Creating Solid Colors and Gradients, Color Swatches, Color Sets, Fill Attributes,
• Setting Stroke Attributes, Geometric Shapes, Freeform Shapes, Strokes and Fills

Working with Text
• Text Tool, Paragraph Attributes

Modifying Simple Graphics
• Setting Selection Preferences, Clipboard, Graphic Elements, Flipping, Rotating, and Skewing
• Resizing, Positioning Graphic Elements, Modifying Fills and Strokes,

Complex Graphics on a Single Layer
• Controlling Stacking Order, Aligning Elements, Combining Drawing-Objects

Graphics on Multiple Layers
• Timeline's Layer Features, Layers and Folders, Layer Visibility in the Timeline,
• Organizing Layers in Folders, Cutting and Pasting Between Layers, Guide Layers, Mask Layers

Working with Symbols
Library Panel, Library Hierarchy, Converting Graphics to Symbols, Using Symbol Instances, Master Symbols, Converting Symbol Instances to Graphics, Editing Master Symbols, Copying Symbols Between Movies

Frame-by-Frame Animations
• Timeline, Creating Keyframes, Manipulating Frames in One Layer, Removing Frames,
• Making a Simple Frame-by-Frame Animation, Adding Keyframes, Onion Skinning,
• Frame Rate, Varying the Speed of Animations

Animation with Motion Tweening
• Creating a Bouncing Ball with Motion Tweening
• Adding Keyframes to Motion Tweens
• Animating Color Effects
• Rotating and Spinning Graphics
• Moving Graphics in Straight Lines
• Changing Tween Speed

Animation with Shape Tweening
• Creating a Bouncing Ball with Shape Tweening
• Morphing Simple Lines and Fills
• Shape-Tweening Multiple Shapes

Understanding Scenes
• Manipulating Frames in Multiple Layers, Animating Multiple Motion Tweens,
• Saving Animations As Graphic Symbols, Animated Graphic Symbols,
• Movie-Clip Symbols, Animated Masks

Building Buttons for Interactivity
• Creating a Basic Button Symbol, Button Symbols, Fully Animated Button Symbols, Movie-Clip Buttons

Actions Panel
• Organizing Frame Actions, Adding Frame Actions, Adding Actions to Buttons, Changing Events,

Using Non-Flash Graphics
• Importing Non-Flash Graphics, Turning Bitmaps into Vector Graphics, Bitmaps as Fills

Sounds
• Adding Sound, Using Event Sounds, Behaviors to Control Sounds,

Flash Player Settings
• Publishing HTML for Flash Player Files, Alternate Image Formats, Version Detection,
• Creating Projectors, Creating Publishing Profiles, Exporting Flash to Other Formats