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Flash CS3: The Missing Manual
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- Table of Contents
- + The Missing Credits
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Introduction
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Getting Around Flash
- Starting Flash
- + A Tour of the Flash Desktop
- Toolbars
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Panels
- + Tools Panel
- Accessibility Panel
- Actions Panel/ActionScript Debugger Panel
- Align Panel
- Behaviors Panel
- Color Mixer Panel/Color Swatches Panel
- Common Libraries
- Components Panel/Component Inspector Panel
- History Panel
- Info Panel
- Library Panel
- Movie Explorer Panel
- Output Panel
- Properties Panel/Filters Panel/Parameters Panel
- Scene Panel
- Transform Panel
- The Timeline
- The Flash CS3 Test Drive
- + Opening a Flash File
- + Creating Simple Drawings
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Animating Your Drawings
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Organizing Frames and Layers
- + Advanced Drawing and Coloring
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Adding Special Effects
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Reusable Flash: Symbols and Templates
- + Incorporating Non-Flash Media Files
- + Automating Flash with ActionScript
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Controlling Animation
- + Interacting with Your Audience
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Components for Interactivity
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Testing and Debugging
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Publishing and Exporting
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Optimizing Flash Documents
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Ten Optimization Strategies
- Choose tweens over frame-by-frame animations
- Choose the Pencil tool over the Brush tool
- Choose solid over dashed or dotted lines
- Simplify curves
- Use symbols
- Avoid bitmaps (or optimize them)
- Keep sound clips to a minimum; when you do use them, optimize them.
- Group elements
- Avoid the extraneous
- Tell Flash to keep your file size down
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Ten Optimization Strategies
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Publishing Your Animations
- + Exporting Flash to Other Formats
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Optimizing Flash Documents
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Installation and Help
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Flash CS3, Menu by Menu
- + File
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Edit
- Undo
- Repeat/Redo
- Cut
- Copy
- Paste in Center
- Paste in Place
- Clear
- Duplicate (Ctrl+D)
- Select All
- Deselect All
- Find and Replace
- Find Next
- + Timeline
- Edit Symbols/Document
- Edit Selected
- Edit in Place
- Edit All
- Preferences
- Customize Tools Panel
- Font Mapping (Mac: Flash › Font Mapping)
- Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac: Flash › Keyboard Shortcuts)
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View
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Insert
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Modify
- + Text
- + Commands
- + Control
- + Debug
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Window
- Duplicate Window
- + Toolbars
- Timeline
- Tools
- Properties
- Library
- Common Libraries
- Actions
- Behaviors
- Compiler Errors
- Debug Panels
- Movie Explorer
- Output
- Project
- Align
- Color
- Info
- Swatches
- Transform
- Components
- Component Inspector
- + Other Panels
- Workspace
- Hide Panels
- Cascade
- Tile
- Combine as Tabs
- List of Open FLA files
- + Help
- Index
Flash CS3 is the premier tool for creating web animations and interactive web sites, can be intimidating to learn. This entertaining reference tutorial provides a reader-friendly animation primer and a guided tour of all the program's tools and capabilities. Beginners will learn to use the software in no time, and experienced users will quickly take their skills to the next level. The book gives Flash users of all levels hands-on instructions to help them master:
Special effects
Morphing
Adding audio and video
Introducing interactivity
And much more
With Flash CS3: The Missing Manual you'll be able to turn an idea into a Flash animation, tutorial, or movie. This book will help you create online tutorials, training materials and full-blown presentations. It also teaches design principles throughout and helps you avoid elements that can distract or annoy an audience.
This is the first new release of Flash since Adobe bought Macromedia, which means that it's the first version that will integrate easily with other Adobe products. It's a whole new ballgame when it comes to Flash, and Flash CS3: The Missing Manual offers you complete and objective coverage. It's the perfect companion to this powerful software.
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Book Details
Authors
Chris Grover and E. A. Vander Veer
Categories
Computers > Digital Media > Video & Animation
Publishers
Publication year : 2007
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 696
