Flash 8 Hands on Training

Description

Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored and craving real-world examples? Do you want to concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? If so, this book is for you.

These hands-on exercises teach you to start creating Flash animations and interactive files with little effort. You'll learn to create vector animations using a wide variety if drawing tools and Timeline effects, and add interactivity and dynamic content to your projects by using ActionScript 2, Components, and the Behaviors panel. You'll also learn how to import bitmaps, sounds, and video to make your Flash projects more engaging, and find extensive coverage of the new Flash 8 features: the improved text tool, new text rendering engine, new graphic filters, and more.

Complete with insider tips, illustrated with detailed graphics, and accompanied by a CD loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime movies, this book ensures you'll master key features of Flash 8 in no time.

CONTENTS:

Getting started
Understanding the interface
Using the drawing & colur tools
Animation basics
Shape tweening
Symbols & instances
Filters
Motion Tweening
Bitmaps
Buttons
Movie clips
ActionScript basics
Text
Sound
Video
Publishing
Putting it all together
Integration