Foundation Macromedia Flash MX
If you're picking up Flash for the first time with the latest MX release and want a solid tutorial, this Foundation book is for you. It assumes that you want deep, lasting knowledge that will allow you to build up your Flash skills from a solid base. The book centers on a linear tutorial that covers the core features of Flash MX. Each chapter blends theory and practice, with plentiful practical examples, and a case study that runs throughout the whole book to reinforce the learning in an integrated, real-world context. The book promises deep learning that will stick in your mind. This book caters for web designers for who are adopting Flash for the first time with Flash MX. It's based on the highly-successful Foundation Flash 5, and uses the same heavy-duty, sequential, detailed, thorough tutorial method, but it's fully updated to cover the new and enhanced features in MX. If you're coming to Flash completely from scratch, this book is for you.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 600
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450101
Fresh Flash
So you think you've got to grips with the new features of Macromedia Flash MX? Welcome to this inspirations upgrade from friends of ED. Upgrade your thinking, upgrade your attitude, and upgrade your standards to take on board the host of exciting features incorporated into the latest version of Flash. With this title we run the gamut of new features, from the Drawing API ("to die for"), through new Video compression, Scriptable Masks and Components. We explore the new territory with Experimental Interfaces, check out the improvements in the 3D arena, and quarry the backend technologies to see what gems we can turn up! Some of the best designers in the Web community have concentrated their efforts on this project. This has resulted in the highest caliber of work, including an exclusive insight into the creation of Jim Armstrong's New York Flash Film Festival Final piece. Full of brand new flash effects and discussion for flash designers.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 272
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1903450993
Hidden Power of Flash Components
Components, a new feature in Flash, are pre-built content that help Flash designers and Flash design teams simplify tasks and avoid reinventing the wheel with each project. This unique, value-packed book from best-selling author J. Scott Hamlin includes a CD containing more than 75 components! Written for all levels of Flash designers, this book teaches you how to use pre-built components, how to customize components to suit your specific needs, and how to create your own components from scratch. The CD includes an exceptional collection of author created and third-party components (many exclusively produced for this book), plus step-by-step, interactive tutorials for each component. In order to replicate this set of time-saving tools you could purchase some of them from the Web (likely costing you more than the book) or learn how to do it yourself and then invest up to 10 hours per component to recreate them. The book is highly recommended.
- Cost: $28.00
- Pages: 304
- Edition: 1 edition
- ISBN: 0782142109
How To Do Flash MX
Understand the language and uses of Flash, the premier multimedia-authoring tool. Learn to design and deliver motion graphics, movies, sound files, presentations, low-bandwidth Web sites, and more. Regardless of your experience level, How to Do Everything with Macromedia Flash MX will help you get the most from Flash by presenting well-organized, bite-sized bits of information. Coverage includes all aspects of Flash design as well as programming and development. Create Flash animations and interactive movies, learn the full power of ActionScript, and discover why Flash is the world's most widely used Web graphics application. Use basic drawing tools and understand each element of the interface and toolbar; Modify the size, color, scale, rotation, and skew of any object; Create interactive and fast-loading elements such as buttons, menu, animations, and backgrounds; Utilize motion and shape tweening; and Learn ActionScript functions and methods.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 544
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0072222506
Idiot's Guide to Flash 5
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Macromedia Flash 5 teaches you the basics of using Flash 5 to create stimulating and action-packed Web pages. Whether you're a novice or more experienced user, this step-by-step, light-hearted approach will ease you into the world of Flash-y Web-page-building--with all the bells and whistles of streaming audio and video. The book gives an introduction to Flash 5, including basic instruction in creating art, working with layers, working with symbols, creating buttons, simple interactivity, creating forms, simple ActionScripting, tweening, masking, publishing and much more. The audience for the "idiot" and "dummy" schools of instruction books is pretty well defined--either you like them or you don't. As with others of this fashion, the Complete Idiot's Guide to Macromedia Flash 5 uses "bite-size chunks" to teach, instead of a longer tutorial style or a concise step-by-step. Learn flash in a fun environment.
- Cost: $13.99
- Pages: 350
- Edition: 1 edition
- ISBN: 0789724421
Inside Flash (With CD-ROM)
Inside Flash 5 is hands-on, tutorial-based instruction on how to use Flash that goes several steps further than perceived competitors and provides more advanced-level instruction, including a quarter of the book on ActionScript. Inside Flash 5 shows the program's functionality from a practical, project-based, best-practices approach; the book teaches how to get results using the tool, rather than simply reviewing the functionality of each button on the interface. Provides guidance on working with the graphics, sound, and animation techniques possible with Flash 5, and on using ActionScript to control the behavior of objects. Written for intermediate Flash artists and programmers, the guide explains how to create various types of masking effects, simulated video, soundtracks, menu systems, user interfaces, object movement, and smart clips. Inside Flash is a wealth of expert information, providing a great introduction to Flash 5.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 1008
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0735711054
Inside Flash MX
Inside Flash MX employs a comprehensive and comparatively advanced approach for designers and developers, addressing the emerging fact that Flash is both a designer's tool and a programming environment. Presents techniques for creating interactive and animated web sites with Flash, and describes features new to the latest version of the package, such as named anchors, shared objects, and the drawing API. Written for intermediate Flash users, the guide introduces the basics of ActionScripting and object-oriented programming, and addresses the advanced topics of components and server-side communication. Working professionals-designers, developers, and those who do both-who need a comprehensive, non-introductory tutorial reference. This is the largest growth area in the Flash market: NOT simply designers, but those familiar with the technology who use it as front end tool and as a programming tool as well.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 912
- Edition: 2nd Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0735712549
Learn Design with Flash MX
If you're interested in learning design skills following a structured path, or if you've been using some of the tools of the trade, like Macromedia Flash, for some time but have never had the opportunity of a solid flash tutorial, this introductory level book is for you. Learn Design with Flash MX will answer all the essential design questions that other books ignore. By addressing the core design skills from a beginner's perspective, in the context of Flash MX, readers will gain a rich, solid, and structured understanding of the what, how, and why's of the fundamental principles of good design. If you're coming to Flash completely from scratch, this book will give you a broad and solid flash introduction enabling you to create aesthetically pleasing, well laid-out sites and content, which will help you learn the trade and get access to the professional web design world. This book will teach readers to develop and implement their creative ideas.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 512
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1904344003
Learning Flash 5
Animation is a multifaceted and a complicated process. Flash is a notoriously quirky tool. No wonder many fail to master the skill of animating with Flash. Here at least is a solution to the "how" of the Flash interface. Flash has so many interrelated tools and adjustment panels, it's good to see them systematically explored and explained. I've used Flash for years and still found some hidden powers. Flash's more advanced tools are not overlooked. There are lessons on building guide paths, mask layers, buttons and scripting for control of movie clips and sound track. To use Flash properly, you need to know everything on this CD by heart. This is a painless (except perhaps for the $150 price) way to acquire that knowledge. These lessons are like having a knowledgable friend with a clear lesson plan beside you. Hits all the basics but gets well into subtleties of the complex process of animation.
- Cost: $149.95
- Edition: CD-ROM
- ISBN: 1930727119
Learning Macromedia Flash 5
Learning Macromedia Flash 5 provides students the knowledge and experience they need to design and build animations for use on Web pages, in presentations, and as stand-alone movies. The total-immersion, hands-on tutorial walks students step by step, mouse-click by mouse-click, keystroke by keystroke through the various features of Macromedia Flash 5 e.g., graphics, simple and advanced animation techniques, sound, text, and programming scripts. The well-illustrated, spiral-bound manual contains easy-to-read, appealingly formatted procedural explanations and step-by-step exercises in a multi-part Lesson format. Learning Macromedia Flash 5 includes topics such as: Flash 5 Basics; Create a Movie; Enhance a Movie; Publish a Movie; Advanced Flash; and Projects and Challenges. The CD-ROM includes data files, evaluation version of Macromedia Freehand, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks.
- Cost: $38.67
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1585771473
