Shows, in a step-by-step format, how to apply transparency, create morphing effects, add interactivity and sound, and animate graphics for the Web. Discusses how to take advantage of Flash 3END
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This thorough guide helps you learn how to use Macromedia Flash 3 to create vector graphics and animations for the Web. Its range of instruction targets everyone from beginning graphics users to expert Web designers and addresses both Windows and Macintosh platforms. Some projects involve files on the companion CD-ROM; others simply have you start from scratch.
You begin by learning the background on Flash--the features new to this version as well as the program's many uses for visualization, graphics, animation, illustration, and presentation. Next, the book introduces you to the interface and its precision-placement, type, shape, and export tools. After teaching you how to integrate the program with other software, the book launches into a discussion of the core features. You learn techniques for drawing; make animations; create and edit symbols, such as buttons, movie clips, sounds, and bitmaps; combine symbols and create multilayer animations; add interactivity and multiple scenes; create transparency effects; use sound; assign actions to interactive buttons; and publish, play, and export your movie. Other topics include how to use Flash with the Design in Motion suite, which includes FreeHand, Insta.HTML, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and 3D Tools; how to use Aftershock to produce Web pages; and how to fine-tune HTML. A chapter on case studies features interviews with Web developers and explores their insights on Flash. --Kathleen Caster
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not a useful book.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Flash 3 Web Animation F/X and Design (Paperback)
I'm a new user to Flash and for the most part the book put me in a coma when I tried to follow the examples (drawing tutorial was particularly painful to get through). The online tutorials and lessons provided by Macromedia are so much more helpful. I personally think this book should have been recalled because of the missing tutorial files. Author should at least post a url where we can download the missing files. Sorry for being so critical but that book cost too much to ignore the flaws. A nice looking cover design and some eye catching color page inserts probably tricked a lot of shoppers into taking this book home. Too bad the content wasn't better thought out.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Save Your Money!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Flash 3 Web Animation F/X and Design (Paperback)
When I first saw this book I was very excited. Flash books are hard to come by, so I picked this up. Was I disappointed! First of all none of the tutorial files are on the CD. What a joke, this is an integral part of the learning process. Secondly things are explained in the most backwards manner. The beginning of the book goes into detail about all sorts of Flash features. After reading all of this information, we finally get to the meat of the application by Chapter 4. Here lessons are not explained easily. Either your going back to find out how to do something or looking ahead. Did anybody take the time to edit this rag. I bought the book as a substitute for a dry, boring manual. Instead the manual is clear and concise. I later started searching around the internet and found tutorials that taught you more in a few sentences then chapters in this book. This book never looks at the big picture. "How do I piece everything together once I've learned the lessons." Save your money. There are excellent Flash tutorials on-line that are 100 times better and free.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for beginners...,
By Vinnytman (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Flash 3 Web Animation F/X and Design (Paperback)
If you're NEW to Flash, this is a great book. For those of you that know NOTHING about Flash, but want to learn... this is probably the best book on Flash out there. If you're already fluent in Flash, don't waste your time, and anyway, if you're that fluent, why do you need a book? Use your imagination when it comes to designing and programming!
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