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Overview
Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to rich Internet applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better.
Flash CS5 boasts a host of new features, including better support for mobile devices, a whole new animation engine enabling full manipulation of tweens and paths, custom easing, improved inverse kinematics, a revamped timeline, built-in 3D, and much more.
This book is all you’ll need to learn Flash CS5 from the ground up. If you already have Flash experience, this book will allow you to quickly catch up on all the cool new features. Flash experts Tom Green and Tiago Dias guide you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS5, keeping the emphasis firmly on good design techniques that you use in your own projects.
- Learn Flash design from the ground up, or just get to grips with the new features, with a series of step-by-step tutorials.
- Provides an easy introduction to ActionScript 3.0 coding, but the focus is mainly kept on design.
- Learn from the experts—written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and Tiago Dias.
- The ins and outs of the Flash CS5 interface
- How to use all of Flash CS5’s essential features, such as text, graphics, and animation
- How to use video and sound effectively in Flash
- How to create a mobile application
- The fundamentals of Flash CS5’s new animation and timeline features
- The basics of ActionScript 3.0
- How to populate a Flash movie with dynamic data such as XML.
This book is for both beginners who want a solid grounding in Flash CS5, and designers with previous Flash experience, who want to get up to speed with the new features.
Table of Contents
- Learning the Flash Professional CS5Interface
- Graphics in Flash CS5
- Symbols and Libraries
- ActionScript Basics
- Audio in Flash CS5
- Text
- Animation
- Animation, Part 2
- Flash has a Third Dimension
- Video
- Building Interfaces with the UI Components
- XML (Dynamic Data)
- CSS
- Building Stuff
- Optimizing and Publishing Flash Movies
Synopsis
In this book, you'll learn: How to create effective animations using the Motion Editor and animation tools How to use the 3D features to animate objects in 3D space Best-practice tips and techniques from some of the top Flash practitioners on the planet
Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers
If you're a Flash designer looking for a solid overview of Flash Professional CS5, this book is for you. Through the use of solid and practical exercises, you will soon master the fundamentals of this latest edition of the Adobe Flash authoring tool. Using a series of carefully developed tutorials, you will be led from basic Flash Professional CS5 techniques to the point where you can create animations, MP3 players, and movies designed for playback across multiple devices in no time. Each chapter focuses on a major aspect of Flash, and then lets you take the reins in a "Your Turn" exercise to create something amazing with what you've learned.
This book focuses on the core skill set you need to feel at home with Flash Professional CS5, and also introduces you to some of the biggest names in today's Flash community through interviews and actual "How To" examples, so you can learn from the masters. You will start by studying the Flash Professional CS5 interface, and while you're at it, you'll be guided toward mastery of the fundamentals, such as movieclips, text, and graphics, which will lead you into some of the more fascinating aspects of Flash, including code, audio, video, animation, and 3D transformations.
By the time you finish, you will have created an MP3 player and a Flash video player, been introduced to the basics of ActionScript 3.0, learned how to combine Flash with XML, styled Flash text with CSS and the new Text Layout Framework, created animated scenes, and worked your way through a host of additional projects. All of these exercises are designed to give you the practical knowledge necessary to master Flash Professional CS5 from the ground up. If you're already a seasoned Flash designer, this book will get you up to speed with this latest version in relatively short order.
This book covers all of the new Flash Professional CS5 features, such as the new Text Layout Framework, the new way of working with video, and two of the coolest new additions to the application: the Springy bones tool and a vastly improved Deco tool.
All of the files you need to use this book can be found at www.friendsofed.com. Download the files, and let's get busy!