Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 8 in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 8 in 24 Hours
ISBN: 0672327546
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 235
Pages: 235
Authors: Phillip Kerman
- Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 8 in 24 Hours
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Part I: Assembling the Graphics You ll Animate in Flash
- Hour 1. Basics
- Jump Right In
- Getting Your Bearings
- Getting Around in Flash
- Document Properties
- File Types
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 2. Drawing and Painting Original Art in Flash
- Drawing on the Stage
- Tools
- Selecting and Transforming Objects
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 3. Importing Graphics into Flash
- Vector Graphics Versus Raster Graphics
- Reasons to Avoid Importing Graphics
- Importing Vector Graphics
- Using Bitmaps (Also Known As Raster Graphics)
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 4. Using the Library for Productivity
- The Concept of the Library
- Using the Library
- Using Symbols from the Library
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 5. Applied Layout Techniques
- Controlling Color
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Part II: Animating in Flash
- Hour 6. Understanding Animation
- How Animation Works
- Elements of Animation
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 7. Animation the Old-Fashioned Way
- Understanding the Brute-Force Animation Technique
- Enhancing a Frame-by-Frame Animation
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 8. Using Motion Tweens to Animate
- Creating a Motion Tween
- Fine-Tuning a Motion Tween
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 9. Using Shape Tweens to Morph
- Making a Shape Tween
- Refining and Fine-tuning a Shape Tween
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 10. Including Sound in Animations
- Importing Sounds
- Using Sounds
- Controlling Quality and File Size
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 11. Using Layers in Animations
- How Layers Work
- Using Layer Properties for Visual Effect
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 12. Animating Using Movie Clip and Graphic Symbols
- Movie Clip Symbol Behavior
- Subtleties of Movie Clips
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 13. Creating Special Effects
- Effects with Shapes
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Part III: Adding Interactivity and Advanced Animation
- Hour 14. Making Buttons for the User to Click
- Making a Button
- Advanced Buttons
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 15. Using ActionScript and Behaviors to Create Nonlinear Movies
- Using ActionScript
- Using Behaviors
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 16. Using ActionScript for Advanced Interactivity
- Making Drag-and-Drop Interactions
- Programming in Flash
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 17. Using Components
- What Is a Component?
- Using the RadioButton Component
- Changing Component Styles
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 18. Using Video
- Flash Basic 8 Versus Flash Professional 8
- Embedding Video Versus Playing External Video
- Using Video
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Part IV: Putting It All Together for the Webs
- Hour 19. Linking a Movie to the Web
- Basic Publishing
- Simple Hyperlinks
- Using Style Sheets
- What Other Web Tasks Can Flash Do?
- Using Flash Inside a Larger Website
- Uploading Files to a Web Server
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 20. Designing a Website to Be Modular
- Loading Movies or Images
- Determining When a Movie Is Fully Loaded and How to Unload It
- Shared Library Items
- Playing External Sounds
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 21. Optimizing a Flash Site
- File Size Considerations
- Performance Hits
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 22. Advanced Animation Techniques
- It s the Result, Not the Technology
- Applying Conventional Techniques
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 23. Working on Large Projects and in Team Environments
- Production Methodologies
- Applying Productivity Techniques
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Hour 24. Publishing a Creations
- How to Publish
- Adding Metadata to Your Flash Creation
- Deciding Which Media Types to Publish
- Exporting Other Media Types
- Summary
- QA
- Workshop
- Part V: Appendixes
- Appendix A. Shapes You Can Make in Merge Drawing Mode
- Semicircle
- Spokes on a Wheel
- Five-Pointed Star
- Oblique Cube
- Sine Waves
- 3D Sphere
- Color Wheel
- Appendix B. Resources
- Tutorials and Other Online Resources
- Content Sites
- Third-Party Products
- Statistics
- Glossary
- A
- B
- C
- D - E
- F
- G
- H
- I - J
- K - L
- M
- N - O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W - X - Y - Z
- Index
- index_SYMBOL
- index_A
- index_B
- index_C
- index_D
- index_E
- index_F
- index_G
- index_H
- index_I
- index_J
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- index_M
- index_N
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Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 8 in 24 Hours
ISBN: 0672327546
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 235
Pages: 235
Authors: Phillip Kerman