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Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Hands-On Training View Larger Image | James Gonzalez
Peachpit Press, Paperback, Bk&CD edition, Published December 2005, 650 pages, ISBN 0321293886 | List Price: $49.99
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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.
About the Author
James Gonzalez is a professor of multimedia studies at the College of Marin
and is the author of the best-selling book Flash Professional 8: Hands-on Training
(Peachpit, 2005).
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 2 Average Customer Rating: Nov 4, 2006 Jonathan Turner from Seattle, WA
Best of the bunch for learning Flash design
I looked through many of the new Flash 8 books and this was the best one I found from a DESIGN standpoint. I teach this subject and have used flash since version 4. The screenshots are very useful and the lab examples are very useful and practical. If you are a DEVELOPER (coder) then you should buy a book on ActionScript 2.0 or a book designed for Developers. This book is for Designers as anyone with experince with Flash and the industry should know. If you want a more advanced book then there is one in this same series for that purpose. This book also does a great job of describing and using the new features available in Flash 8 which other books seem to ignore. The animation shadowing exercise is very good.
Mar 3, 2006 CK from Los Angeles, CA
THIS IS NOT THE TEXT FOR AN EXPERIENCED CODER
This book is for those with a great deal of time and very little real-world IT experience. Basically, this is a "monkey-see-monkey" do type of book. The author leads you through a series of steps without fully explaining the 'why'. If you need to get up to speed with Flash 8 quickly, this certainly isn't the text for you! On the other hand, if you're a novice and require a great deal of hand holding, then you'll love this book. I'm a professional developer who feels he wasted a good deal of valuable time going through this book. Be certain I will buy other texts but I can't honestly recommend this one to other developers.
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