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Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Hands-On Training
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by James Gonzalez
Sales Rank: 9395
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Discount: 40 %
List Price: $49.99
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Paperback: 640 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; Pap/Cdr edition January 1, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321293886
ISBN-13: 978-0321293886
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
Product Description
Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored and craving real-world examples? Do you want to concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? If so, this book is for you. These hands-on exercises teach you to start creating Flash animations and interactive files with little effort. You ll learn to create vector animations using a wide variety of drawing tools and Timeline effects, and add interactivity and dynamic content to your projects by using ActionScript 2, Components, and the Behaviors panel. You ll also learn how to import bitmaps, sounds, and video to make your Flash projects more engaging, and find extensive coverage of the new Flash 8 features: the improved text tool, new text rendering engine, new graphic filters, and more. Complete with insider tips, illustrated with detailed graphics, and accompanied by a CD loaded with classroom-proven exercises.
About The Author
James Gonzalez is a computer applications and multimedia professor at the College of Marin, California, where he teaches courses in interactive media design, eLearning and Web technologies. James has over sixteen years of experience in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of technology-focused instructional programs. He has taught courses nationwide on the use of multimedia software and their applications in instructional environments and has also published widely on these subject. When not teaching or writing, James provides consulting and technical services on the applications of multimedia and telecommunications technologies for training and education.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book covers every basic to intermediate topic I can think of in Flash 8 Professional. It assumes no knowledge of Flash 8 at all and gives a great overall explanation of Flash in general and what it can be used for. It also is a great book for people who have used Flash in the past but want a refersher course on what new things are available in the lastest version of Flash. The book starts out in Chapter 2 in describing the Flash environment and every area such as the toolbox, timeline, layer controls, panel sets, keyboard shortcuts, and customizing your environment. The next chapter goes through many well documented exercises in showing the reader how to use the many drawing and selection tools in the toolbox (pen, pencil, brush, shape tools, ink bottle, transform tool, eraser, etc.). The fourth chapter goes into animation basics in explaining very succinctly all the parts of the timeline and how it is used in animation. The chapter is very important because if you do not understand the timeline and how to use it correctly you will never really understand Flash. The author does a great job in this especially since this a very visual topic and many illustrations and screenshots are used to help the reader visualize what he is trying to explain. The next chapter contnues with animation and talks about shape tweening. Chapter 6,7,8 focus on symbols and how they are used in other types of animation (motion-tweening) and a new feature in Flash 8 called filter and blend modes (very powerful). Chapter 9,10,11 focus on the other 2 types of symbols which are button and movieclips. Button symbols allow for interaction between the Flash movie you create and the viewer. Movieclips allow for interaction as well and add alot of more powerful features with ActionScript that is explained in full detail in Chapter 12 and 13. The author has some great examples in those chapters with buttons and movieclips. These are two other importat topics in understanding Flash. The rest of the book 12-16 focus on some intermediate topics such as ActionScripting, adding sound and video, using components with Flash. These require a little coding practice, but the authore goes very slowing and in great detail explaining these issues so the beginner does not get lost at all. The final chapter (17) reviews publishing which shows the reader how to get their flash movies on the web. A great overall book for the Flash beginner or someone who wants to refresh their skills on the latest Flash version (8). Also, the book includes a 24-hour pass to Lynda.com, which is a fantastic site that has tons and tons of great video tutorials on many topics like Flash and other Macromedia products as well. The book is worth every penny and then some...
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