Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers (Foundation) | Tom Green, David Stiller

Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers (Foundation) | Tom Green, David Stiller | Not recommended

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	Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers (Foundation) Tom Green, David Stiller friends of ED, 2007 - 600 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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. You can discover more about this book, download source code, and even view video tutorials at the book's companion site: www.foundationflashcs3.com. 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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Very Well Done

I shake my head when I think about the amount of planning that has to go into a book of this caliber. They couldn't have done a better job keeping track of the ideas introduced in early chapters and building on them in succeeding chapters until they are well ingrained.

The tone is good -- occasional bits of levity but not so much that it becomes grating.

I came to this book with some familiarity with Photoshop and Illustrator, but none whatsoever with Flash. I'm nearly done with the book and am ready to take on the Flash projects I have in mind. I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning Flash.

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Not recommended

As a true Flash newbie, I can't recommend this book. I found the sample lessons to be too much too soon and, in some cases, steps were left out. There wasn't enough time spent at the beginning on learning your way around the timeline and information about optimizing and publishing your move are like an afterthought at the end of the book. The book also bills itself as 'for designers' and yet the samples used to demonstrate Flash principles are poorly designed.

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