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Overview
Bring your graphics to life with this vibrant resource that offers easy-to-find answers for beginners to intermediate users. Regardless of your programming knowledge you'll discover how to create fully interactive and fast loading Web elements such as buttons, menu, animations, and backgrounds. Then, when you feel ready, move into ActionScript programming for some full-throttle creativity.Synopsis
Understand the latest developments in Flash MX 2004, and learn to easily create and publish motion graphics, movies, sound files, presentations, low-bandwidth Web sites, and more. How to Do Everything with Macromedia Flash MX 2004 will help you get the most from Flash by presenting well-organized, bite-sized bits of information. Fully updated coverage includes all aspects of Flash—design as well as programming and development. Create Flash animations and interactive movies with behaviors and ActionScript, and discover why Flash is the world's most widely used Web graphics application.
- Follow a results-oriented format that makes learning Flash fun and easy
- Create fast-loading interactive movies that feature buttons, navigation menus, and animations
- Use basic drawing tools and understand each element of the interface and toolbar
- Modify the color, transparency, rotation, scale, and skew of any object
- Copy and paste repetitive tasks using the powerful new History panel
- Add and edit graphics, video, and sound in your movies
- Utilize a full range of animation features including motion and shape tweening
- Learn to use behaviors and timeline effects
- Incorporate MPEG, DV, and QuickTime files into your Flash movie
- Use Components to quickly create scrolling text, graphics, and other complex interactivity
Flash files available online
About the authors: Bonnie Blake is an award-winning designer who specializes in Web design and multimedia. She is an Assistant Professor of Design Ramapo College in New Jersey, and is the author of several books on Web design and digital video editing including How To Do Everything with Macromedia Flash 5, How To Do Everything with Macromedia Flash MX, and Adobe Premiere Virtual Classroom.
Doug Sahlin is an author and a graphic and Web site designer. He uses Macromedia applications to design interactive Web sites for his clients. Sahlin is the author of several books on Web, graphic design, and digital video including, How To Do Everything with Macromedia Contribute and How To Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 6.0.