An introduction to Macromedia's multimedia authoring tool, which enables novices to add impact to their Web site with animated logos, banners, buttons, cartoons and illustrations. A supporting Web site keeps the book up-to-date after Flash! is revised.
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If you're looking for a good introduction to Macromedia Flash, the vector-based interactive animation program, give this carefully written book serious consideration. After getting a thorough tour of Flash's interface, you learn how to import and export vector and bitmap graphics, import sound files, and export video files. The book's tutorials teach you how to create and edit illustrations; use Overlays and Symbols; create various types of animations; work with layers, scenes, and actions; add interactivity and sound; export movies; and create Flash Sites. There are plenty of tips, thorough explanations, and good illustrations along the way. Case studies show you outstanding examples of Flash at work on the Web. Appendices include HTML tag references, troubleshooting tips, and keyboard shortcuts. The hybrid companion CD-ROM has practice files that you use with the book's tutorials, as well as trial versions of Macromedia Flash, Director, FreeHand, xRes, and SoundEdit 16.
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Flash! Creating Web Animation is a complete introduction to Flash from one of Macromedia's own training experts, Darrel Plant. It shows even the newest "newbie" how to make streaming animations, rollover buttons, animated logos other moving graphics that load and play instantly. The book covers Flash's drawing tools, animation controls, file format support, and its easy-to-use versions of multimedia features like in-betweening, and "onion-skinning." After readers master these tools, they learn how to make the most of the unique vector drawing tools that allow Flash to generate very compact, screamingly fast-loading files that are scalable to different resolutions. Finally, readers learn the rules for using animation effectively: how to make it useful for the viewer; how to plan Flash integration into a Web site; and how to make animated Web content easy to maintain.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not a book to purchase if you have knowledge of graphics.,
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This review is from: Flash! Creative Web Animation (Paperback)
I was (desperately) looking for a more advanced tool to help me add to my knowledge of animation. If you already know programs like Photoshop or Illustrator or any other graphics programs, then this is not the book for you. Basically, it just teaches the tool bars and other options. Not very helpful for those of us who want to go further.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Sparse reading devoted to Flash animation,
By A Customer
This review is from: Flash! Creative Web Animation (Paperback)
Although the book show the basics very well, as I mastered all the steps, I sought for more advanced steps. That's where the book ended. No advanced stuff, no detailed descriptions of various uses. Only very basic drawing and animation, nothing like what you see out on the web. I'd like to see more stuff on Flash.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
<<<<Don't buy the book the help files are all you need>>>>>,
By A Customer
This review is from: Flash! Creative Web Animation (Paperback)
I recomend that you dont buy any book on flash 4 because it's not necesary all you have to know is in the interactive help files an examples provided with the software
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