Flash Professional CS5 Digital Classroom: (Book and Video Training) - Softcover

Gerantabee, Fred; AGI Creative Team

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470607769 ISBN 13: 9780470607763

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Synopsis

Learn Flash in a flash with this full-color book and video training package!

Adobe Flash is used by designers, game programmers, and hobbyists to create interactive Web sites, digital experiences, and mobile content. The latest release of Flash promises exciting new capabilities and this book-and-video training package makes learning the new features of Flash less intimidating. Fifteen self-paced lessons encourage you to discover essential skills and explore new aspects of Flash. The tutorials featured in the videos are each approximately five minutes long and supplement the concepts and topics covered in the lessons.

• Features full-color, step-by-step tutorials that complement the topics covered in each lesson
• Demonstrates the basics of using the newest release of Flash, such as using layers and instances to build animation sequences
• Covers intermediate and advanced capabilities, such as using ActionScript to create interactive Web page components

Jam-packed with information, this book takes you from Flash basics through intermediate-level topics and helps you find the information you need in both print and video.

Note: DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. These materials are available for download upon purchase.

About this title

About the Author

Fred Gerantabee is an expert Flash and Silverlight designer, developer, and instructor. He has served as the training manager for AGI Training, and currently leads the UI/UX Development team at BrandWizard Technologies in New York.

The AGI Creative Team develops and delivers training programs through the American Graphics Institute.

From the Back Cover

You have a personal tutor in the Digital Classroom

If you want expert instruction that fits into your schedule, the Digital Classroom series delivers. Adobe Certified Experts guide you through 15 lessons, helping you learn essential Flash Professional CS5 skills at your own speed. Full-color, step-by-step instructions in the book are enhanced with video tutorials on the DVD. With this Digital Classroom training package, you have your own private instructor showing you the easiest way to learn Flash Professional CS5.

• Create cool vector-based artwork, type, and animation with Flash

• Use the animation engine and Motion Editor to create animation you can duplicate, save, and reuse

• Build complex motion graphics with movie clips and inverse kinematics tools

• Control movies and create interactive controls with ActionScript®

• Import graphics from Photoshop® and Illustrator® and add music or video

• Create complex interactivity using code snippets

A Complete Training Package!

• Full-color, step-by-step instructional book

• Video training from Adobe Certified Experts

Tutorials and lesson files on companion DVD

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470607769
• ISBN 13: 9780470607763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464