Product Description

Flash is one of the most engaging and innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of pretty much anything from simple slideshows, animated banners and icons and cartoons, to Rich Internet Applications, Interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, except that now, it just got better. In 2007, Adobe released Flash CS3, which boasts a whole host of new features, including fully customizable workspace, full ActionScript 3.0 support, a PSD importer, a tween-to-code animation converter, and much more. And this book is all you'll need to learn Flash CS3 from the ground up, or learn about all these new features, if you already have previous Flash experience—Flash experts Tom Green and David Stiller take you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS3, with 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 expertswritten by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and David Stiller.

What youll learn

• The ins and outs of the Flash CS3 interface
• How to use all of Flash CS3's essential features, such as text, graphics, and animation
• How to use video and sound effectively in Flash
• The basics of ActionScript 3.0
• Building Flash user interfaces rapidly using components.
• How to populate a Flash movie with dynamic data such as XML.
• The Basics of creating Flash Lite applications (Flash for mobile devices)
• Using Cascading Style Sheets with Flash
• Optimizing and publishing your Flash movies

Who is this book for?

This book is for both beginners who want a solid grounding in Flash CS3, and designers with previous Flash experience, who want to get up to speed with the new features.

Summary of Contents

• Chapter 1: Learning the Flash CS3 Professional
• Chapter 2: Graphics in Flash CS3
• Chapter 3: Symbols and Libraries
• Chapter 4: ActionScript Basics
• Chapter 5: Audio in Flash CS3
• Chapter 6 Text in Flash CS3
• Chapter 7: Animation in Flash CS3
• Chapter 8: Video in Flash
• Chapter 9: Using the Flash UI Components to Build Interfaces
• Chapter 10: CSS and Flash
• Chapter 11: Dynamic Data (XML) and Flash
• Chapter 12: Going Mobile in Flash
• Chapter 13: Optimizing Flash Movies
• Chapter 14: Publishing Flash Movies

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3217 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-24
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 600 pages

About the Author
Tom is currently Professor of Interactive Media in the School of Media Studies at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto, Canada. He has written 4 previous books on Macromedia technologies, and many articles for numerous magazines and web sites, including the MX Developers Journal, Community MX, and Computer arts. Lastly, he has spoken at over 20 conferences internationally, including FITC, MX North, Digital Design World, TODCON, and SparkEurope. David is a career multimedia programmer/designer whose portfolio includes NASA, Adobe, and major US automotive and boat manufacturers. He likes anaglyph 3D photography, finely crafted wooden game boards, Library of Congress field recordings, and Turkish coffee. David is self-taught and gets a kick out of sharing \"aha!\" moments with others through consultation, mentoring, and regular contributions to the Adobe Flash and ActionScript forums. He is a resident author at Community MX, a web development training site geared toward Adobe products. David lives in Virginia with his amazing wife, Dawn, and his beguiling daughter, Meridian.

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Customer Reviews

Learning the Basics
If you are new to flash and have no experience whatsoever, the Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers from Tom Green and David Stiller is an excellent choice to get yourself familiarize with Flash CS3. I am very pleased with this purchase and learned a lot from this book. Flash is a very powerful program that involves ActionScript. Flash CS3 includes the latest version, ActionScript 3.0, which is a code oriented programming language. However, the authors tried to approach ActionScript 3.0 so that beginners will enjoy Flash. I am not a programmer, but after reading certain chapters changed the way I think about the process of coding. I can pinpoint the code to manipulate easily because it is clearly labeled and commented. As you follow along with the book, your skills will quickly give you the knowledge of becoming an advanced user.

A good chapter to beginning learning the basics of ActionSript is chapter 4. The examples are dedicated to guide you through and inspire you to put your creativity to the test. They are extremely detailed and visually can follow along because of the screen shots.

I am a new user to Flash and this book guided me through the program step by step. Like I stated before, I am just astonished at how detailed and easy the examples are. Anything that I wanted to do, the book gave a detailed example. This is an excellent book to get you familiarized with Adobe Flash CS3, whether you want to create an interactive game or a web page, this book will get you started on how to accomplish your goals using Adobe Flash CS3.

Awesome book
This book is awesome. I used it as reference for a flash course that i took and it was very helpful.

Newbie to Flash
Liking the book a lot so far. This book does a clear and concise explanation of the basics and on. It makes designers like me who really just do print and have been only doing online stuff minimally. I'm almost half-way through the book and learning has been fun. The explanations and terminology is easy to understand. It is also easy to follow as you have Flash CS3 open. Great walk through. I'm so glad I found this book. Now I'm not as scared to face the Flash monster and Actionscript. My next goal will be Dreamweaver.