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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS3 Professional in 24 Hours

Phillip Kerman

24 Proven One-hour Lessons



In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to create dynamic animations using Adobe (R) Flash (R) CS3 Professional. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of Flash from the ground up.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Flash tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to do something.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems, and give you advice on how to avoid them.



Learn how to...

o Create, optimize, and export dynamic animated movies for the Web, disk, or CD

o Integrate Flash animations with static HTML pages

o Use Flash's vector graphics tools, including filters and blends, to create drawings and animations

o Use digital video in Flash movies

o Animate using time-tested techniques and Flash's special "tweening" features

o Create powerful, interactive movies using the basics of ActionScript

o Design Button, Graphic, and Movie Clip symbols and use them over and over without increasing file size

o Import existing graphics from Illustrator (R) and Photoshop (R)



Phillip Kerman is an internationally recognized expert on the use of the Web and multimedia for training and entertainment. He frequently presents at Flash user conferences and has taught Flash and other authoring tools in workshops around the world.



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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS3 Professional in 24 Hours

Introduction



Part I: Assembling the Graphics You'll Animate in Flash



HOUR 1 Basics



HOUR 2 Drawing and Painting Original Art in Flash



HOUR 3 Importing Graphics into Flash



HOUR 4 Using the Library for Productivity



HOUR 5 Controlling Color



HOUR 6 Applied Layout Techniques



Part II: Animating in Flash



HOUR 7 Understanding Animation



HOUR 8 Animation the Old-Fashioned Way



HOUR 9 Using Motion Tweens to Animate



HOUR 10 Using Shape Tweens to Morph



HOUR 11 Including Sound in Animations



HOUR 12 Using Layers in Animations



HOUR 13 Nesting Animations in Movie Clip and Graphic Symbols



HOUR 14 Creating Special Effects



Part III: Adding Interactivity and Video



HOUR 15 Basic Interactivity



HOUR 16 Introducing Components



HOUR 17 Using Components



HOUR 18 Using Video



Part IV: Putting It All Together for the Web



HOUR 19 Linking a Movie to the Web



HOUR 20 Designing a Website to Be Modular



HOUR 21 Minimizing File Size



HOUR 22 Optimizing Performance



HOUR 23 Advanced Animation Techniques



HOUR 24 Publishing a Creation



GLOSSARY



Online Bonus Content



Appendix A Shapes You Can Make in Merge Drawing Mode



Appendix B Resources



Appendix C ActionScript Primer