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Dewey Decimal Number: 006.696 EAN: 9780201696660 ISBN: 0201696665 Label: Peachpit Press Manufacturer: Peachpit Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 10 Publication Date: January 15, 1998 Publisher: Peachpit Press Studio: Peachpit Press Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: If you're looking for a good introduction to Macromedia Flash, the vector-based interactive animation program, give this carefully written book serious consideration. After getting a thorough tour of Flash's interface, you learn how to import and export vector and bitmap graphics, import sound files, and export video files. The book's tutorials teach you how to create and edit illustrations; use Overlays and Symbols; create various types of animations; work with layers, scenes, and actions; add interactivity and sound; export movies; and create Flash Sites. There are plenty of tips, thorough explanations, and good illustrations along the way. Case studies show you outstanding examples of Flash at work on the Web. Appendices include HTML tag references, troubleshooting tips, and keyboard shortcuts. The hybrid companion CD-ROM has practice files that you use with the book's tutorials, as well as trial versions of Macromedia Flash, Director, FreeHand, xRes, and SoundEdit 16. Product Description: One of Macromedia's own training experts, Darrell Plant, shows even the newest "newbie" how to make streaming animations, rollover buttons, animated logos, and other moving graphics that load and play instantly. The book covers Flash's drawing tools, animation controls, file format support, and its easy-to-use versions of multi-media features like "in-betweening" and "onion-skinning". . Average Rating:
 Rating:  - more exerciseI think that it has great explanation however, it doesn't provide to many programming details or examples. Besides that I think is great. Rating:  - Not a book to purchase if you have knowledge of graphics.I was (desperately) looking for a more advanced tool to help me add to my knowledge of animation. If you already know programs like Photoshop or Illustrator or any other graphics programs, then this is not the book for you. Basically, it just teaches the tool bars and other options. Not very helpful for those of us who want to go further. Rating: - Poor exercises and explanations.The basics were explained well but about half way through the book, Mr. Plant got very lazy. Some exercises weren't clear and the examples on the CD were a joke. If you like learning programs by book, you really don't have many other options than this book. Maybe try the lessons that come w/ Flash. Rating: - <<<I recomend that you dont buy any book on flash 4 because it's not necesary all you have to know is in the interactive help files an examples provided with the software Rating:  - Sparse reading devoted to Flash animationAlthough the book show the basics very well, as I mastered all the steps, I sought for more advanced steps. That's where the book ended. No advanced stuff, no detailed descriptions of various uses. Only very basic drawing and animation, nothing like what you see out on the web. I'd like to see more stuff on Flash. 
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