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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
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 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 MX Complete Reference
Get comprehensive coverage of the all new features and expanded functionality of the latest version of Flash. This authoritative guide can show you how to use Flash with confidence to create stunning and compact navigation interfaces, plus long-form animation, and other effects on the Web. For users at every level, this soup-to-nuts resource is essential reading. Whether it's in showcasing graphics or text, animation or movies, sound or interactivity, Flash is among a small handful of elite applications that have fueled the spectacular emergence of the Web. Macromedia Flash MX: The Complete Reference contains seven distinct sections and nearly 30 chapters devoted to delivering information on every aspect of this powerful tool. From graphics and animation, to interactivity, to the ActionScript language, learn to use all aspects of Flash and see for yourself why Flash is among the most successful and popular Web applications.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 808
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0072134860
Foundation Flash 5
Foundation Flash 5 gives you all the skills you need to get started in the latest version of Flash. It takes you from your first drawing and animation project in Chapter 1 through to a strong foundation in the sophisticated ActionScripting capabilities now built into Flash 5. It is a thorough and practical, tutorial led book, where each chapter builds into a complete design example - reinforcing what you've learnt in that section and how it can be applied in real design projects. By the end of the book you'll have an expert-level, Flash-rich website, and the skills to develop and modify your own Flash 5 effects. Topics include the authoring environment; toolbox, sybmols and libraries, manging content on the stage with rulers, guides, grids, and son on, workign with color, bitmap graphics, and typefaces, tweening, masks, actions, beginning and intermediate ActionScript, sound, optimizing Flash, publishing Flash, and principles of good site design.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 625
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450314
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
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
Mobile Macromedia Flash MX
This thorough resource will help you build, deploy, and run rich media applications across multiple channels and devices. Plus, utilize JSP, ASP.NET, or ColdFusion MX to port information dynamically. Mobile Macromedia Flash MX shows you why Flash content is used by today's premiere developers to build state-of-the-art interfaces, applications, and animations for computers and devices. Learn the essential of dynamic Flash development; Extend applications with databases, ColdFusion MX, and Flash Remoting; Enhance usability for typical handheld devices; Follow case studies on mobile commerce, communication, and entertainment; Take advantage of the Flash MX user interface components; Learn motion shape tweening; Audio and Video compression for flash movies; Maximize Flash support in mobile platforms and devices such as Microsoft Windows CE, Pocket PC, Casio Cassiopeia, Symbian OS Mobile Phones, Nokia 9200 Communicator, and more mobile flash devices.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 456
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0072226455
Optimizing Flash Content
Optimizing Flash Content with Shane Rebenschied is a CD-ROM-based tutorial developed for beginning to intermediate Flash users. Flash 5 is an authoring tool that enables you to create highly interactive and fast-loading Web content, combining vector and bitmap graphics. This CD-ROM covers workflow, file size, and performance optimization. During this CD-ROM tutorial you will learn how to reduce the file size of your Flash movie, how to make it play faster, and how to speed up working with Flash itself. Topics include the interface, drawing and color, animation basics, shape tweening, libraries, symbols, and instances, motion tweening, masking, type, importing bitmaps, buttons, movie clips, ActionScripting Basics, sound, publishing, integration, flash deconstruction, flash templates, and more. Shane Rebenschied is an instructor at lynda.com in Ojai, California. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California
- Cost: $49.95
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 193072716X
Teach Yourself Flash 5
Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 5 in 24 Hours is specifically written for the new Flash user. Not a revision of a previous book, Phillip Kerman's book begins by covering the basics of Flash 5, including the use of the drawing tools, basic animation skills such as tweening, and putting together simple movies. In the second part, the book covers the more advanced techniques of Flash, including interface design, interactivity, collecting data, and delivering movies to the Internet. The final part of the book takes the reader further into the practical uses of the Flash medium, and includes chapters on developing animation skills, further uses of bitmap graphics, advanced delivery to the Web with preloaders, using Flash in the design of CD ROMs, and using Flash in conjunction with other applications. Built around four main sections, the book starts out by teaching us the basics such as using the native painting and drawing tools.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 587
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 067231892X
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
Teach Yourself Visually Flash MX
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 130 Flash MX tasks, from animating objects with tweens, working with text, and importing sounds to creating interactive buttons, adding Flash actions to movies, and creating mask layers. "Teach Yourself" sidebars offer practical tips and tricks; Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task; Succinct explanations walk you through step by step; Two-page lessons break big topics into bite sized modules. Uses the VISUAL approach to cover new features of Flash MX. Book covers how to create musical tracks, sound effects, dynamic animations, and innovative interfaces; using timelines, adding text effects, and creating tweens with Flash. This Flash book includes over 500 color screenshots.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 320
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0764536613
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
KoolMoves
Flash animation is easy with KoolMoves. It is ideal for creating animated web pages, animated text effects, flash banners, multimedia slide shows, spalsh pages, flying logos, complex navigation systems, interactive games, character animation, and intro pages. It features libraries of text effects templates, web page templates, vector clip art and buttons, action script text effects, transition effects, spin and rotate effects. For advanced users, it even has Flash MX action scripting, dynamic text fields, and bones character animation.
- Cost: $39.09
- Version: 4.1
- Platforms: Win 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP
The TAB
The TAB is a paperless animation software tailored to create original animation content for web and broadcast. It allows people to draw and animate directly with the computer in an easy and intuitive way using a graphic tablet. Furthermore it is possible to add quality to the work done taking advantage of the powerful scene editor, the automatic inbetweening of drawings and a wide range of custom styles. Suggested, but not compulsory, is a graphic tablet or display digitizer. Features: raster to vector converter, mask columns, type tool.
- Cost: $395.00
- Version: 2.2
- Platforms: Windows 2000 or XP, Mac OS X v10.3
Flash Tutorial
This Flash tutorial guides you through some of the basics. Topics include: Flash Basicss; Flash Drawing; Flash Buttons; Flash Tweenings; Flash and JavaScript. This resource also includes an FLA archive. Some of the specifics include: What is shockwave Flash? What do I need to create my own Flash movies? Learn to create Draw with Flash, explains the Flash toolbox, how to draw basic lines and shapes; Learn to create both simple buttons and advanced tell target buttons. Learn to change objects between two keyframes using Flash tweening.
- Cost: Free
Streaming Flash Educational Videos
Nortel Network's KidzOnline offers a series of entertaining tutorial videos completely free. Join host Gino and his animated side-kick Tweener as they explore the basics of Flash, the history of 2D animation, animation principles, the Flash interface, the toolbox, keyframing, tweening, actionscripting, importing, symbols, using sound, and even special effects. Unlike most online Flash resources, these videos and associated E-learning materials are professional productions due to KidzOnline's 3 million dollar annual budget.
- Cost: Free
- Platforms: Windows, Macintosh
W3Schools Flash Tutorial
Flash is a tool for creating interactive and animated Web sites. In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to start using Flash in your applications. Start Learning Flash. Topics include: Flash introduction, Flash How To, Flash in HTML, Flash tweening, Flash GuideTween, Flash TintTween, Flash ShapeTween, Flash buttons, Flash animation, and Flash sound. You will also learn the advantages of Flash compared to animated images and Java Applets; how to embed a Flash movie into an HTML page; and tweening, where you can create movements and changes.
- Cost: Free
