Multimedia for the Web (syllabus)(qqzip)

Classes:

1. PhotoShop CS Tools
• Classroom in a Book - Lesson 4 : Working with Selections. Create an image.
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2. PhotoShop CS Filters and Layering Effects
• Classroom in a Book - Lesson 6 : Masks and Channels. Create an image using filters and effects.
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3. PhotoShop Advanced Imaging / Web building techniques
• Classroom in a Book - Lesson 17 : Creating Rollover Web Visuals. Design a whole website in Photoshop.
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4. Photoshop Image Ready
• Classroom in a Book - Lesson 18 : Animating GIF Images for the Web. Create an animated image
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5. Bringing Photoshop and Dream Weaver together
• Create a site template in Dream Weaver, built with graphics created in Photoshop. Follow this tutorial using your own graphics that you will make in Photoshop. Create it just as the tutorial shows, with four side bar buttons and four horizontal buttons with your own text. Choose a topic/theme for your site and base your graphics and text on this topic. You will use this project as the basis of the final project.
  
6. Drawing in Macromedia Flash
• The Web Collection - Flash Unit B : Drawing in Macromedia Flash. Project Builder 1. Subsequent assignments build on this one.
  
7. Symbols and Interactivity in Macromedia Flash
• The Web Collection - Flash Unit C : Working with Symbols and Interactivity. Project Builder 1.
  
8. Animation using Macromedia Flash
• The Web Collection - Flash Unit D : Creating Animations. Project Builder 1.
  
9. Advanced Flash techniques
• The Web Collection - Flash Unit E : Creating Special Effects. Project Builder 1.
  
10. Project work time
    
11. FINAL SPECIFICATIONS - Use the site template you created in lesson 5. Add mouse-over states to all buttons. One page will have a 20 frame Flash motion tween. One page will have a 20 frame Flash shape tween. One page will have a 50 frame animation which uses a motion path. Add text and/or images of your choosing. All files, including Photoshop and Flash .fla's must be turned in with the project.

If you ever have any questions, problems, or expect to miss a class, please email me at stevex64@yahoo.com.