Flash 5 Designer's Pack
Flash 5 Designer's Pack - Save on our most popular Flash books by buying them for one low price! This pack includes Flash 5 Visual Insight, Flash ActionScript f/x and Design, and Flash 5 Cartoons and Games f/x and Design, giving a visual reference of Flash 5 features, covering interactive functionality with ActionScript, and producing complex techniques such as cartoon animations and games. Includes two CD-ROMs with more than 50 Flash movies, demos of Macromedia products, SmartSound, and Magpie Pro, plus Flash-based games. Sherry London (Cherry Hill, NJ) is the author of numerous books on computer graphics applications. Dan London is a Web designer who creates both HTML and Flash-based sites. William B. Sanders (Bloomfield, CT) has written over 30 books in computer technology and programs with 20 focusing on computer programming and scripting. Bill Turner has been working in Flash since it was FutureSplash by FutureWave (1995).
- Cost: $69.99
- Pages: 720
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1588801675
Flash 5 f/x and Design
Flash 5 f/x and Design helps Web Designers create aesthetically pleasing, interactive web sites. Animation, tweening, using the timeline, coordinating sounds, shape, color, scenes, movement, and sequences, as well as scripting actions and interfaces are covered. Readers gain an understanding of Flash's underlying conceptual framework for creating movies. This book includes a CD-ROM with Flash files, sample photos, and professionally created drawings which readers can incorporate into their movies. Flash 5 f/x and Design helps Web Designers create aesthetically pleasing, interactive web sites. Readers gain an understanding of Flash's underlying conceptual framework for creating movies. Topics include flash drawing tools, motion paths, edit shapes and motion tweens, and compress sound files. Bill Sanders is an experienced script and program developer in various languages and platforms including HyperCard script, Lingo, JavaScript, and ActionScript.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 384
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1576108163
Flash 5 for Dummies
Flash 5 For Dummies provides a light-hearted but thorough reference for anyone who wants to understand this bestselling tool quickly and in plain English. The authors cover each topic simply but in enough detail to make it useful. You will be able to quickly find any topic they need and get back to work without delay. The book is in the order you would use the program to create Web animation, also progressing from simple to complex. Beginners will be able to read the book from start to finish while intermediate users can look up only the sections they want. Flash has a high cross-platform profile. Luckily, one of the authors (Gurdy) is a Mac freak; the other (Ellen) is a PC stalwart. With this book discover how to animate your web pages, create cool web buttons, create or import graphics, design your entire web site using flash, optimize your animations for quick loading, make text spin, disappear, and more.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 375
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764507362
Flash 5 for Windows and Macintosh
Flash, which started as a program to create and animate vector art, has developed into a tool to create graphics on the web which incorporate animation, sound, and color. Exercises take Flash beginners through the basics of creating graphic elements, transforming them into animation, then adding ActionScript and sounds to make the animation into an interactive movie. The final section teaches the Flash Publish feature to create the HTML that will put the movie onto the web. A guide to getting a quick start with Macromedia Flash 5 for Windows and Macintosh, with an easy reference-like format that lets the reader look up what they want to learn and get straight to work. Topics include simple graphics, complex graphics on one layer, complex graphics on multiple layers, using object libraries, and on through using different kinds of animation (motion tweening vs. shape tweening) and the animation of whole scenes.
- Cost: $15.39
- Pages: 523
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0201716143
Flash 5 Hands-on Training
Jump in immediately and get your hands dirty with Flash 5 Hands On Training. The book's project based exercises, modeled on acclaimed teacher Lynda Weinman's unique brand of instruction, are the ideal way for busy professionals to learn this cutting-edge Web technology. The book emphasizes the practical: You'll master core Flash principles using classroom tested techniques and hard won tips that you can apply to real life projects. Flash 5 Hands-On Training gives you a complete learning experience, combining the best of book based and classroom instruction. You get the flexibility of following the book's clear, step-by-step exercises at your own pace, plus a CD full of sample files and QuickTime movies demonstrating key techniques. Topics include Flash techniques of drawing, animation, shape and motion tweening, bitmaps, text, movie clips, buttons, sound, and publishing. Learn to create your own professional interactive and animated Web sites.
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 768
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0201731347
Flash 5 in an Instant
Using the award-winning Visual learning system, this compact, value-priced guide shows visual learners how to get up and running on the core program features in Flash 5 which you'll use over and over again. Flash 5 in an Instant covers the most popular features of Flash 5, including creating both simple and complex graphics, layering, animation with motion and shape tweening, and adding sounds. Its concise, step-by-step instructions and consistent placement of elements make fast learning of essential Flash 5 tasks. Are you a visual learner who needs results right away? Do you prefer to focus on the essentials and skip the bells and whistles? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find extra-large, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle over 100 key Flash 5 tasks, from drawing a custom line and adding text to creating a motion tween and assigning button actions. Visual format shows you step by step.
- Cost: $15.00
- Pages: 256
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0764536249
Flash 5 Primer
A primer for multimedia developers, offering a guide through every main stage of Flash 5 production: managing large projects, importing images, audio, and video, creating artwork in Flash 5, using the Flash tools, preloading and trimming film size, adding interactivity, writing easy, effective scripts, and creating entire Flash 5 games and computer animation. Here are the crucial issues you face at every stage of Flash production and the solutions and examples you can rely on from the book: Manage large projects; Import images, video, audio, MP3s; Create artwork in Flash; Use the Timeline, Symbol Libraries, and other Flash tools; Add interactivity; Preload and trim file size; Write easy, powerful ActionScripts; Create full-fledged Flash games, and more. John Policano is a freelance graphic designer specializing in Flash and Web design. He recently designed the Web presence for SmithKline Beecham's Oxy campaign, which was covered in Adweek IQ.
- Cost: $24.49
- Pages: 304
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 013031093X
Flash 5 Quick Reference
Flash 5 For Dummies Quick Reference will walk you through each step to create dynamic Web animation quickly. This book will guide you through the steps to using the drawing tools in Flash and your finished project will look as if a professional developer built the page. The easy-to-use lay-flat comb binding book allows you to view the steps needed to create a unique site hands-free and concentrate on the creativity of your page. A quick reference for using Flash 5 software, showing how to harness the power of its animation capabilities. Quick information on working with libraries, timelines, panels, drawing tools, and creating layers, buttons, movies, and instances. Written in a humorous style for a dash of fun. Plastic-comb binding. The quick reference is concise, "get it done", information, helpful alphabetical organization, convenient lay-flat binding, icons and other navigational aids, and much much more.
- Cost: $12.99
- Pages: 200
- Edition: Spiral edition
- ISBN: 076450780X
Flash 5 Studio
A boost to the advanced level in programming with Flash 5. Offers readers who know the basics a broader and deeper knowledge of site design principles, Flash 5 content creation and enhancement, and other applications. Also offers the perspective of Flash 5 as a Web application front end. Topics covered in clude site design principles; Content creation including working with Smart Clips, combining Flash and external 3-D applications, cartoon animation, using video in Flash, sound, transparency, masking and text, buttons, and menus; ActionScript principles and creating with ActionScript, including simple and 3-D visual effects and simple and object-oriented games; Combining interactive Flash movies that draw data from outside sources, including using XML; Efficiently integrating Flash into a Web site, creatnig a preloader, and optimizing for search engines. With this book you will get a deeper understanding of Flash and ActionScript.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 801
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1903450306
Flash 5 Visual Insight
Flash 5 Visual Insight provides an illustrative, simple approach to this leading web development program. The format grabs the readers' attention with screenshots and caption-like text teaching the applicable and useful fundamental elements of this program, such as tools and their options. Then, building on that base to guide readers through creating their own movie! A beginner to intermediate level guide to working with Flash 5 graphics software. Shows how to create a number of effects in Flash, using step-by-step, hands-on examples. Offers coverage of animation using key frames, designing Web pages, constructing static and animated buttons, and controlling animation using Actions. Each project deals with how to use Flash to solve common real-life Web-design situations, such as creating custom Web pages, working with layers, creating buttons, and making drop-down menus.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 376
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1576107000
