Today I fixed and messed around with my layers that the fine Gentlemen helped me out with. I was going to pull a Nathan and add some Layer masks, but I think I'll skip it. I know that they made me really flash literate, but I'm glad that I could create more simple layers. I learned a lot today about layer masks, but I don't think I'm going to experiment with them.

Today I was criticized by my fellow classmates on how my Portfolio had way to many layers. They INSISTED that I completely recreate my entire portfolio and start from Square One. I was helped, but I completed it just in time for the end of class. I did learn a lot more about layers. Since I'm sort of a Photoshop Fanatic, I was taught that you can never have to many layers! Apparently, that's not the case for the Masters of Flash. They said that I should clump my whole navigation bar into one layer, which I did. It looks a lot the same, but it is certainly a lot smoother. I thank them a lot for helping me, and teaching a Photoshoper about layers.

Today I played in flash with backgrounds, changed my background and the transparency of my Navigation bar. I'm thinking about changing the color of my text to black with the background -- But I doubt I will.|
I really like the classic black font color, so I think I'll stick with that. I'll even change my background if I need to. But today I learned a lot about layers, key frames  etc. I have to make for instance the button "Education" to go to frame 50. Which is pretty basic, I just need to make a lot of key frames on frames. (:

Today I messed around with ActionScript. I learned a lot with ActionScript 3.0, but I also figured out that it I'm going to be sticking with ActionScript 2.0. Even though I am a fan of the insanely user friendly ActionScript 3.0, it's really the new thing. I would get into 3.0 if I was new (Or a Web Design teacher), but since I already know how to use all the code I'm sticking with 3.0. I really like the friendlyness of 3.0, but 2.0 is just for me!

Today I tested my flash program in browser and made sure that everything looked right in chrome and in the Flash Preview. It looks alright, maybe not what I was expecting. I wish it would fit the monitor better. I'm not sure if I should resize the entire program to make it fit just these monitors dimensions, just for school, or if I should just keep it the same size. I will definitely think about it and come back on Tuesday and have a good idea of what I want to do.  

I messed with a lot of FLash today, and played around in it. I made a great portfolio that I'm alsmot done with, I just need to fill up the Favorites folder. I'm thinking inputting Music Players to play on the webpage, but I'm still not sure what I'm going to do about it. I learned a lot today, including Motion Tween action script, and Folders and Layers properties.

I continued to work on my electronic portfolio today. I really tried to make it a fun environment and a lot neater and nicer. I'm really going to simple with my portfolio. I'm really excited with the way it turned out, just the way I wanted it too. It really took a lot of ActionScript, and my Java class helped out with seeing what the ActionScript was all about, and what I needed for certain instances.