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Flash : BooksBeginner Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Flash is the hottest tool on the Web because its quick loading and motion rich files dovetail perfectly with the Internet's mission: to provide visual information over which the viewer has navigational control. Capitalize on Flash motion by tweening animated sequence, then add sophisticated behaviors with ActionScript, the native programming language of Flash. Import, edit, and synchronize sound, and work with all types of graphic files, including bitmap. Optimize your movies, then publish to the Web and to alternative formats. From simple animations you can create in minutes, to morphing text and highly animated movies, this resourceful guide will help you get the most from this awesome motion graphics application. The book covers the basic concepts behind Flash: learning the work environment; drawing; creating animations; using motion guides, masks, symbols, imported graphics, and sound; publishing movies; and using ActionScript.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 402
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0072222662
Create Macromedia Flash Movies
Flash software can enable you to create pulsing musical tracks, sound effects, gorgeous animations, and innovative interfaces for Web sites. With the saturation of the Internet into today's culture, it is critical to have an eye-catching site to attract more hits. Create Flash 5 Movies In a Weekend is a learning tool that will show you how to do everything from downloading and installing Flash 5 trial software to creating interactive movies. The accompanying CD is filled with examples used in each of the book's sessions, as well as clip art that you will learn to animate. Because of the step-by-step nature of instruction, this book will be a useful guide to novice Web developers. The book focuses on Windows Macromedia Flash as well as Macintosh Macromedia Flash. The book contains structured lessons for learning how to build Flash web sites with flash movies, in the space of one weekend!
- Cost: $29.99
- Pages: 336
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0761528660
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 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
Flash 5 Weekend Crash Course
This book gets readers up-to-speed with the latest version of Macromedia Flash in just a weekend. It consists of 30 learning sessions over a period of three days. Each session is designed to take 30 minutes to complete, so the Crash Course is an intense 15-hour learning period beginning on Friday evening and ending on Sunday afternoon. Naturally, readers can adapt their learning to whatever schedule best suits their needs, but the message that a reader with no prior programming experience can learn the language or development environment in one weekend will be carried throughout the book. Topics include menu options, using pencil, brush, pen tools, layers, animated foreground content, designing flash logos, creating text effects, exploring sound to animation, creating strobes and advanced nested animations, exploring flash gradients, advanced bitmap techniques, using instant effects, options publishing and exporting and more.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 377
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764535463
Flash ActionScript for Designers
From user interactivity and eye candy effects to automated content management, ActionScript gives you the power to take your Flash movies to the next level. But what if you're not comfortable with objects, variables, and all that other programming stuff? Relax! Using plenty of easy-to-understand tutorials and an absolute minimum of geek-speak, Doug Sahlin takes the mystery out of ActionScript and shows you step by step how to put it to work in real-world Web design. Step-by-Step Tutorials and Projects Show You How to Create: Flash forms, Animated preloaders, Printable frames, User-customizable e-commerce products, Dynamic backgrounds, Custom cursors Motion trails, Starburst backdrops Slide shows, Pop-up windows, Banner ads, Flash intros, Animated banners. Projects such as Creating a Pop-Up Menu, Creating a Sound Controller, or Creating an Animated Flash Banner can be used as the starting point for readers' own customized projects.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 408
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0764536877
Flash Cartoon Animation
You want to make an animated film. You've got the idea. You've got Macromedia Flash. What's the best way to script your cartoon, how do you start animating with Flash, what do you really need to know in order to get your ideas out there, and make you famous? Who better to ask than two talented professionals, who've not only worked for Disney, but also run the hugely successful cult website funnyazhell? Kevin Peaty and Glenn Kirkpatrick draw on their many years of studio experience and their knowledge of Flash to show you the best way to create great Flash cartoons that look as good as traditional animated films. This book follows the professional process, taking a creative idea from storyboard stage, through layout to publishing, via a detailed look at animation techniques, that will give you the kind of insight normally only gained from years spent in the industry. Use this book to create your own animated Flash masterpiece.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 280
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450985
Flash Graphics & Animation
Flash 5: Graphics, Animation & Interactivity, 2E with Flash, fully updated to the latest release, demonstrates how you can create a web site with maximum effect and a limited file size. Macromedia Flash is explained in a straightforward, easy to understand manner and includes examples of the most common Flash functions. In addition to complete coverage of vector animation commonly associated with Flash, ad banners, buttons, and animated corporate logos are also addressed. Learn how to integrate sound with animation, create vector images with transparency, and create quick loading animated sequences to play while the rest of the web content downloads. This book is the perfect learning tool and desk reference for anyone involved with web design. Features include information on how Flash interacts with other web-based programs; Complete coverage of creation of interactive elements such as buttons, interfaces, ad banners, animations, and sound.
- Cost: $32.17
- Pages: 416
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 076682909X
Flash MX ActionScript
What the book covers: Flash MX ActionScript For Dummies covers the essentials of creating interactive, animated content using the scripting language associated with Flash. Updated coverage of the new version: This fully updated edition covers all the changes to the scripting interface and language that come with Flash MX. Series features: Features to-the-point explanations and step-by-step instructions that have made Dummies the choice for readers around the globe. Covers the essentials of creating interactive, animated content using the scripting language associated with Flash. Updated to cover all the changes to the scripting interface and language that come with Flash MX. ActionScript lets you take Macromedia Flash MX to a new level of interactivity. But how do you get the hang of all those objects, functions, operators, and new enhancements? Don't worry! With the tips and tutorials in this friendly reference, you'll be happy with this book.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 384
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 076451637X
Flash MX, Remoting, ASP.NET
Macromedia Flash MX has become the professional standard authoring tool for producing high-impact web experiences. Whether you are creating animated logos, web site navigation controls, long-form animations, entire Flash web sites, or web applications, you'll find the power and flexibility of Flash MX ideal for injecting energy into your websites. Flash MX along with its newest companion - Flash Remoting - easily integrates with existing web production workflow, and provides powerful development tools for creating advanced web applications and integrating with other server side applications and Web services. In this article, Pallav Nadhani will look at how Flash Remoting helps to make our lives easier in terms of Flash application development. To work with Flash Remoting, you need to have the following installed on your development machine: Macromedia Flash MX, The Flash Remoting components, Microsoft .NET SDK, Flash Remoting for .NET.
- Cost: $8.00
- Pages: 32
- Edition: e-book (Acrobat Reader)
- ISBN: B0000713V0
Flash Web Design
Flash is the perfect tool for creating immersive, interactive, and animated Web site design, and Flash Web Design teaches you to use it to its full potential. The Essentials section covers the basics of Flash production, illuminating how and why Flash works. The second section is a series of case studies and deconstructions based on projects and problems the author has faced with his clients. Flash Web Design is geared toward professional Web designers and content creators who want to make their site stand out from the typical noise of the Web. This book assumes readers have some experience with Web design and animation, but it does not assume previous work with Flash. Projects include type animation, navigational screens, working with wireframe art, converting vectorized video, working with streaming MP3 audio, using action scripting for interactivity, and going from Freehand sketches to finished Flash movies.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 256
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0735708967
Flash Webisode Handbook
With the power of Flash, your Web presentations and information can be fun and interactive. Using streaming animations, or webisodes, you can entertain, educate, and promote to your audience easily and effectively. Written for artists, illustrators, and Web developers, The Flash Webisode Production Handbook, provides useful insights and hands-on techniques that explain how to plan, create, and deploy webisodes with Flash 5. Using cartoon examples, each chapter focuses on a specific part of the Flash animation development process, and provides useful problem-solving techniques for any type of production. With Flash 5 as your authoring tool and the guidelines in this book, you can learn how to produce animated short films, edutainment presentations, games, interactive greeting cards, and more. Actionscripting for games include slider game, jigsaw puzzle, match game, find game, hangman, and a maze flash game. Covers flash preloaders.
- Cost: $39.96
- Pages: 407
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1584500875
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
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
Teach Yourself Flash MX
Since its introduction in 1996, Macromedia Flash has become the standard for delivering high impact, vector based graphics to the Web. Flash is deceptively simple at first, yet has great depth and flexibility. Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash MX in 24 Hours offers a clearly written, well organized introduction to this powerful product, and gives the beginner an overview of the entire package, without becoming too overwhelming. Learn how to create optimize, and export dynamic animated movies for the Web, disk or CD; Use digital video in Flash movies; Animate using time tested techniques and Flash's special tweening features; Program with Flash MX's ActionScripting to create interactive movies; Build the appropriate Button, Graphic, and Movie Clip symbols and use them over and over without increasing file size; Import existing graphics from Freehand Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop. You will learn the essentials of flash in not time!
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 624
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0672323710
Animating With Actionscript Animation
Usually, if you need an object to move from one spot on your stage to another, a simple motion tween would suffice. But sometimes you may need your animations to be a little more interactive. Perhaps something your users does is going to determine where the object will end up when it is animated. If you decided to do this using the traditional motion tween, you'd have to create several different animations and then, depending on the user's actions, you'd have to take the Flash movie to the appropriate frame. This option is fine if there are only one or two or three different places for your object to end up. But what if the final resting place for the object at the end of the animation needed to be completely variable. Well, if this is the case, then the best solution is to create the animation using ActionScript. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do that using the onEnterFrame event.
- Cost: Free
3D Environment
The 3DEnvironment is a Flash component that allows you to build 3D interactive interfaces and environments in Flash. Built-in depth and perspective effects create the illusion of three dimensions. Customizable controls and full keyboard and mouse interactivity enable movement and rotation of the environment. Use simple graphic or movie clip symbols as well as external objects and animated movie clips. Requires no 3D modeling. Features: Create realistic 3D environments with depth and perspective; Build unique interactive interfaces; Custom keyboard controls for users to navigate around the 3D environment; Mouse wheel support for navigation; Move objects in the environment with built-in tweening and customizable tween duration; Rotate the world around all three axes (x, y and z); Camera controls for panning and zooming to change the perspective on the environment Add objects through an intuitive user interface, or external XML file.
- Cost: $59.95
- Platforms: All
Cube Transition Effect
This effect lets you map your starting and target image onto a cube (or hexahedron) which then spins based on your settings. You have full control over this amazing transition; set the length of the animation, the depth of the 'zoom', the direction of the spin and add your own ease formula to create your own 3D world on your project. This component supports animated content and movies. Key features include: Set the length of the transition as well as the depth of the 'zoom'; Set the direction in which the box will move; Add an ease formula to add additional movement; Support animations and videos; Easy to use Extensive example files included; Free updates. All of their filters are based on Flash CS3 technology and are not downwardly compatible (and are therefore not working with Flash MX or Flash 8).
- Cost: €9.99
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Flash CS3 on Windows and Mac
Cut Transition Effect
An instant classic: a transition that fades in the new MovieClip horizontally or vertically. With the help of an ease formula you can set organic movements and set the duration and direction of the transition. It also supports animated content and videos. Key features include: Easily creates a classic transition; Set length of the transition as well as direction; Support animations and videos; Easy to use; Extensive example files included; Free updates. All of their filters are based on Flash 8 technology and are not downwardly compatible (and are therefore not working with Flash MX). Available for ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3.
- Cost: Free
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Windows, Mac
Fold Transition Effect
A 3D animation for everyone: The Fold Transition Effect creates a unique transformation from your start picture to the end picture with a reflection of your images at the bottom. Set the length and the direction of the animation and use an ease formula for additional movement for the transition. Animated content and videos are supported. Key features include: Instant 3D animation without additional programming; Set the length of the transition as well as the direction; Add an ease formula to add additional movement; Support animations and videos; Easy to use; Extensive example files included; Free updates. All of their filters are based on Flash CS3 technology and are not downwardly compatible (and are therefore not working with Flash MX or Flash 8).
- Cost: €9.99
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Flash CS3 on Windows and Mac
FusionCharts
FusionCharts is a flash charting component that can be used to render data-driven and animated charts in your web and dekstop applications and presentations. Its smart, user-friendly and innovative features liven up your web applications by converting monotonous data into exciting visuals. FusionCharts is a cross-browser and cross-platform charting solution that can be used with any scripting language and database. It is used with ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, Python, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations to deliver interactive and powerful flash charts. You do NOT need to know anything about Flash to use FusionCharts. All you need to know is the language you're programming in. FusionCharts offers over 45 types of 2D/3D charts including line, area, bar, column, pie, doughnut (donut), combination, scatter, bubble, scroll charts etc.
- Cost: $69.00
- Version: 3.1
- Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Java
GridNavigation
A thumbnail based navigational system or a portfolio/photo gallery in a grid or pyramid style layout. The thumbnail content is clickable and zooms in to display the selected full size content while the other thumbnails are pushed aside. Content can be external images, animated SWFs or movie clips. Content can be added or changed directly in the Component Inspector, through ActionScript or using an external XML file. Available for ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0. Features include: Display thumbnails of images, SWFs or movie clips in a grid or pyramid like layout; Built-in blur effect for smooth transitions from low res to high res content; Layout options: top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right; Number of columns and rows can be manually or automatically set when using the grid layout; Content, menu items and settings may be defined through XML, Component Inspector or ActionScript; Automatically resizes thumbnails and content.
- Cost: $44.95
- Platforms: All
Iris Transition Effect
In order to create a transition from one MovieClip to the next using a circular mask you can now download the Iris Transition Effect for free. Set the length of the transition and decide on an ease formula for organic movement of the effect. In addition, you can set the component to refresh in every frame and that way apply this effect to MovieClips that include animated content. Key features include: Set the speed of the transition; Add an ease formula for additional movement; Support animations and videos; Easy to use; Extensive example files included; Free updates. All of their filters are based on Flash 8 technology and are not downwardly compatible (and are therefore not working with Flash MX). Available for ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3. Works with Flash 8 and Flash CS3.
- Cost: Free
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Windows, Mac
