Macromedia Flash 5 From Scratch
Macromedia Flash 5 From Scratch teaches you about the many tools and features of Flash movie creation by building a Flash site for a travel company. In addition to addressing general interface and planning topics, the book covers topics such as creating graphic elements with drawing tools, working with symbols and libraries, and using timelines and animations. Advanced chapters teach you to build interactive pages with forms and variables. When you are done with the project, you will have a completed Web site that takes advantage of many features of Flash. Though Flash is sometimes perceived as difficult and complicated to learn, this guide presents the newest version as a straightforward tool for developing Web content and sites. Using a project-based approach, it shows beginning- to intermediate-level users how to create Flash animations and build effective Web pages using animations, interface elements, and sound.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 500
- Edition: Book and CD edition
- ISBN: 0789724618
Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Flash MX H.O.T. covers all of the most important new features of Macromedia Flash MX, beginning with projects that focus on the MX interface, drawing and color tools, animation basics, tweening, symbols and instances, bitmaps, and more. As the projects progress, you'll tackle more complex techniques, such as working with movie clips, text, sound, and video. The latter part of the book addresses publishing and managing Macromedia Flash MX content, as well as how to create content by integrating other software into Macromedia Flash MX. There's no better way for you to get your feet wet using Macromedia Flash MX than with a H.O.T. tutorial. You'll learn core Macromedia Flash MX principles and techniques in a real-world Web design environment. If you're looking for an intelligent, approachable guide for learning Macromedia's latest version of Flash, you'll find lynda's Hands-On Training your e-ticket to Macromedia Flash MX expertise!
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 803
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0321112725
Macromedia Flash MX
With the introduction of Flash MX, the folks at Macromedia have transformed a pretty cool designer's tool for Web-based interaction into a full-fledged, professional-level application for developing sophisticated online content. Serious tools, however, typically require some serious instruction and Flash MX is no exception. Using hands-on, project-based tutorials that you can tackle at your own pace, this invaluable reference provides the instruction you need to start designing professional-looking Web sites. Veteran author and Flash master Chrissy Rey takes you step-by-step through the development ofa complex Flash project, grounding you in the basics before moving on to more complex topics like ActionScripting and the use of video. In the process, she covers both the old and the new, including the revamped user interface, the text and graphic tools that make their debut in MX, and the brand new Properties inspector.
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 460
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0201794829
Macromedia Flash MX Components
Flash MX Components enable the creation of self-contained design building blocks that can be simply dragged and dropped into any Flash movie. They are flexible enough to be easily customized to take care of many different tasks. You can repurpose the standard elements of your design, application, or game, and use them over and over again. Components can be used by anyone, not just the person who created them. So in this book, we've done all the hard work for you and collected together the Most Wanted components that will make your life easier. Flash components included are: Event Calendar; Text Editor; XML News Ticker; Tool Tip; Sketchpad; Video Player; Image Scroller; Patter Generators; Tab Contrl; Sliding Panel; Color Picker; Game Player Selector; Particle Emitter; Layout Manager; Data Grid; Movie Loader; Image Modulators; XML to ActionScript Converter; Virtual 3D Trackball; Text Animations, Dynamic Text Manager, and plenty of other Flash.
- Cost: $29.99
- Pages: 304
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1904344100
Macromedia Flash MX For Dummies
The fun and easy way to jazz up a Web site! Hands on tips for creating buttons, animations, actions and more. Make Web sites come alive with movement, sound, and interactivity, no animation experience required! With Macromedia Flash, you can transform an ordinary Web site into an interactive showplace that'll make visitors say "wow." But how do you get the hang of all those tools and techniques? Don't worry! With this friendly reference, you'll be drawing pictures, building buttons, creating animations, adding sound, setting up actions, and more, in a flash! All this on the bonus CD-ROM. Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and FreeHand trial versions. Author created graphic shapes, designs, and images to incorporate into your own Macromedia Flash movies. Includes Adobe Photoshop tryout version and SWiSH demo. Gurdy Leete, a professor of digital media at Maharishi University of Management, has 20 years of computer animation experience.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 384
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764508954
Macromedia Flash MX FreeHand
Tired of flipping from one program to another, using FreeHand to design graphics and Flash to animate them and publish them to the Web? Macromedia Flash MX FreeHand 10 Studio streamlines the process by letting you use FreeHand and Flash in tandem, from one interface, to create professional vector-based graphics and export them to print or the Web. With Macromedia Flash MX FreeHand 10: Advanced TFS, you learn by doing. Each lesson focuses on one real-world project that uses components of FreeHand and Flash, showing both what you can do with the programs and exactly how to do it. The opening lessons give you a solid foundation in the basics: how to combine text and graphics, work with paths and points, use layers and styles, and prepare files for print or the Web. From there, learn how to drag and drop illustrations from FreeHand to Flash, maintaining symbols and layers, and then instantly publish them to the Flash Player.
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 352
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0201775026
Macromedia Flash MX Game Design
Written for developers familiar with Flash, this guide explains techniques for automating, repeating, and governing the actions of games. The first half of the book describes collision detection and reactions, tile-based worlds, artificial intelligence algorithms, graphics and sound, while the second half walks through the ActionScript code and functions of six sample games. Starts out with the basics: planning, adapting ActionScript techniques, using introductory Flash game techniques, and more. Then it gets down to the real business of building simple games. Inside you get clear detailed instruction on how to easily build cross platform games, multiplayer games, and chats; Everything you really need to know about the physics of game design; Expert advice on new techniques for creating dynamic sound effects; An introduction to artificial intelligence in games, and isometric gaming; Directions for creating encrypted high score lists, and more.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 648
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0201770210
Macromedia Flash MX Studio
Macromedia Flash MX Studio takes your raw Flash talent and multiplies its potency by focusing it on real-world web design situations. In the heady days of the late 1990s, designers were trying their hand at anything and everything they could lay their hands on. Now the marketplace is seriously focused, and serious Flash designers have to know exactly what they're doing and why. These days it's all about functionality over experimentation, justification over style. It's all about Maturity. The design must fit the job spec, and this book shows the reader how to fulfil these requirements and more. This book examines all the avenues open to professional or aspiring professional Flash MX designers. It takes a look at advanced uses of the new MX features, such as components and the Drawing API, and gives guidance on building whole new structures for animation, Dynamic Content, PHP, ColdFusion MX, XML, video, audio and audiovisual formats.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 500
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1903450268
Macromedia Flash MX Unleashed
Macromedia Flash MX is the premier software for creating rich content for the Web and other media. Whether you're interested in developing complex Web applications, learning ActionScript, or mastering the new video capabilities in Flash MX, this book is filled with real world insights and tutorials on every major Flash concept. Flash MX Unleashed is the ultimate resource for anyone trying to take their Flash skills to the next level. It includes powerful tools and topics within Flash such as XML integration, components, and ColdFusion integration. Offers scripting capabilities and server-side connectivity for creating engaging applications, Web interfaces, and training courses. Covers those high-end topics, providing a solid reference for Flash developers. Topics include advanced ActionScript techniques, Flash animation, creating games in flash, database support for flash applications, flash video support, XML integration, and Flash components.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 1024
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0672324016
Macromedia Flash MX Video
Let's make movies! Interactive movies, totally integrated into your Flash interface! With Macromedia Flash MX you have the power to import digital video and sound, and manipulate them just like any other media object. That's a whole world of design possibilities. The first section gives you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound into Flash MX and the many different ways that you can manipulate it once it's in there. Then, in the second section, we go through a complete real-world case study from pre-production on the video to final output to the web and CD-ROM. Finally, we show you how can apply advanced ActionScript to video, and create a fully object-oriented sound and video playing Flash component that you'll be able to use time and time again. Gives you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound into Flash MX and the many different ways you can produce such wonderful sites.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 300
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450853
