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Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Tom Green
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  2. Tiago Dias
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  • Learn Flash CS5 from scratch and get up-to-speed with all of the cool new features—including iPhone application creation, a whole new animation engine, custom easing, and more.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Learning the Flash CS5 Professional Interface

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 1-65

  3. Graphics in Flash CS5

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 67-150

  4. Symbols and Libraries

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 151-211

  5. ActionScript Basics

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 213-277

  6. Audio in Flash CS5

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 279-313

  7. Text

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 315-360

  8. Animation, Part 1

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 361-426

  9. Animation, Part 2

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 427-494

  10. Flash Has a Third Dimension

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 495-526

  11. Video

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 527-599

  12. Building Interfaces with the UI Components

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 601-641

  13. XML (Dynamic Data)

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 643-667

  14. CSS

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 669-694

  15. Building Stuff

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 695-756

  16. Optimizing and Publishing Flash Movies

    • Tom Green, Tiago Dias
    Pages 757-808

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 809-847
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About this book

Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to rich Internet applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better.

Flash CS5 boasts a host of new features, including better support for mobile devices, a whole new animation engine enabling full manipulation of tweens and paths, custom easing, improved inverse kinematics, a revamped timeline, built-in 3D, and much more.

This book is all you’ll need to learn Flash CS5 from the ground up. If you already have Flash experience, this book will allow you to quickly catch up on all the cool new features. Flash experts Tom Green and Tiago Dias guide you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS5, keeping the emphasis firmly on good design techniques that you use in your own projects.

  • Learn Flash design from the ground up, or just get to grips with the new features, with a series of step-by-step tutorials.
  • Provides an easy introduction to ActionScript 3.0 coding, but the focus is mainly kept on design.
  • Learn from the experts—written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and Tiago Dias.

About the authors

Tom Green is a professor of interactive media in the School of Media Studies at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto. He has written four previous books on Macromedia technologies, and many articles for numerous magazines and web sites, including the MX Developers Journal, Community MX, and Computer arts. Lastly, he has spoken at over 20 conferences internationally, including FITC, MX North, Digital Design World, TODCON, and SparkEurope.

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