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9780240519982

Focal Easy Guide to Macromedia Flash 8: For new users and professionals

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    9780240519982

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    0240519981

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2006-01-31
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

If you need to get up and running fast with creating interactive graphics and animation in Flash - then look no further! Whether you are a new user or a professional, this highly visual book is all you need to get up and running with the latest powerful upgrade - Macromedia Flash 8.

Author Biography

Birgitta Hosea is a motion graphics artist and Course Director of the London Animation Studio at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Table of Contents

1 Introduction
1(4)
History and Development of the Program
2(1)
What Is It Used for?
3(1)
How to Use This Book
3(2)
2 Interface
5(12)
The Start Page
6(1)
At a Glance Guide to the Interface
7(1)
What are all the Windows for?
8(9)
The Stage
8(3)
The Timeline
11(1)
Changing Your View
12(1)
Panel Sets and Customizing Your Interface
13(2)
Using the Help files
15(1)
Flash Documents
15(1)
Naming Files and Working Cross-platform
16(1)
3 Vector Drawing
17(22)
At a Glance Guide to the Tools
18(1)
The Drawing Tools
19(1)
Drawing a Line
19(2)
Drawing with the Pencil Tool
21(2)
The Shape Tools
23(2)
Painting with the Brush Tool
25(1)
Using the Pen Tool and the Subselection Tool
26(3)
To Overlap or to Obliterate: Object Drawing vs. Merge Drawing
29(1)
Changing Colors
30(1)
Creating Gradient Fills
31(1)
Transform Fill Tool
32(2)
Creating Text
34(2)
Paragraph Options
36(1)
Spell Checker
37(2)
4 Selecting and Modifying
39(16)
Making Selections
40(1)
Modifying Drawings
41(2)
The Free Transform Tool
43(2)
Combining Objects
45(1)
Adding Strokes
46(1)
Paint Bucket Tool
46(1)
Dropper Tool
46(1)
Eraser Tool
47(1)
Rulers, Guides and Grids
47(1)
Step By Step Create a Perspective Grid
48(4)
Drawing Settings
52(1)
At a Glance Keyboard Shortcuts for the Tools
53(2)
5 Importing Images
55(14)
Vectors vs. Bitmaps
56(1)
Still Image File Types You Can Import
57(2)
Bitmap File Formats
57(1)
Vector File Formats
58(1)
To Import a Still Image into Flash
59(1)
The Library
59(1)
Importing Images with Areas of Transparency
60(4)
Tracing Bitmaps
64(2)
Painting with Bitmaps
66(3)
6 Layers, Symbols and Keyframes
69(26)
Using Layers
70(2)
Step By Step Create a Manual Drop Shadow
72(1)
Introducing Symbols
73(3)
Interactive Buttons
76(1)
Creating a Button Symbol
77(4)
What Is a Keyframe?
81(1)
Naming Symbols
82(1)
Editing Symbols
82(1)
What Is a Behavior?
83(1)
Step By Step Create a Links Page
84(3)
Using Movie Clip Symbols
87(1)
Step-By-Step Animated Rollover Buttons
87(4)
Filters and Blends
91(4)
7 Menu Navigation
95(22)
Button Actions and Frame Actions
96(1)
Creating a Basic Menu
96(5)
Actions and Script Assist
101(1)
Create an Online Portfolio
102(1)
Menus and Submenus
103(1)
Create a Pop-up Menu in a Movie Clip
103(1)
The Top Level of the Menu
104(1)
The Sub Level of the Menu
105(2)
Buttons as Menus
107(2)
Controlling Events on the Stage
109(2)
Loading Images
111(3)
Mail to Link
114(1)
Submit Your Portfolio
115(2)
8 Animation
117(18)
Creating a Banner Ad with Frame-By-Frame Animation
118(1)
Separating and Locking Layers
119(1)
Using Keyframes to Record Animation
120(2)
Onion Skinning
122(2)
Frame Rate and Size
124(1)
Animation with Graphic Symbols
125(1)
Creating Graphic Symbols and Instances
126(3)
Motion Tweening
129(2)
Graphic Symbols and Line Weights
131(1)
Editing Symbols Recap
131(1)
Summary
132(3)
9 More Animation Techniques
135(18)
Using Motion Paths
136(4)
Controlling Velocity
140(1)
Custom Easing
141(1)
Shape Tweening
141(3)
Shape Tweening Text
144(1)
Breaking Apart Text
144(1)
Controlling Shape Tweens with Shape Hints
145(1)
Shape Tweening Summary
146(1)
Create Animated Text Highlights
147(1)
Animating and Transforming Gradients
148(2)
Mask Layers
150(3)
10 Further Animation Techniques 153(14)
Timeline Effects
154(3)
Animated Symbols
157(3)
Creating a Looped Background
160(1)
Copying and Pasting Frames
160(1)
Symbols Within Symbols
161(2)
Altering Symbol Center Points
163(1)
Using Scenes
164(1)
Character Design Tips
165(2)
11 Sound 167(14)
Creating Sounds to Bring into Flash
168(1)
Some Fundamentals of Digital Audio
169(1)
Importing Sounds
170(3)
Streaming vs. Event Sounds
173(2)
Editing Sounds in Flash
175(1)
Attach a Sound to a Button
176(1)
Starting and Stopping Sounds
177(1)
Adding Comments to Frames
178(1)
Warning about File Sizes
179(2)
12 Video 181(16)
Digitizing Video
182(1)
Using Video in Flash
183(1)
Creating FLV Files
183(2)
Importing Video
185(2)
Rotoscoping
187(1)
Output Flash Animation at Full Broadcast Quality
187(1)
Frame Rate and Frame Size
188(1)
Pixel Aspect Ratio
189(1)
Importing DV and Flash
190(1)
Frames vs. Fields
191(1)
Broadcast Safe Colors
192(2)
Over Scan
194(3)
13 Designing for Cross-media 197(14)
Planning a Web Site
199(2)
Information Architecture
201(1)
Design for the Web
202(6)
Size
202(2)
Color
204(3)
Typography
207(1)
Usability
207(1)
Planning for Animation
208(3)
14 Putting Flash on the Web 211(20)
Project Management Tips
212(2)
The History Panel
214(1)
Tips for Lowering File Sizes
215(2)
Testing Your Work
217(1)
Anatomy of a Web Site
218(1)
How is a Web Site Put Together and Where Does Flash Fit in?
218(1)
Exporting and Publish Settings
219(1)
Flash Version Detection
220(2)
Movie Dimensions
222(1)
Uploading
223(1)
Flash on the WWW
224(1)
Creating Pre-loaders
224(2)
Accessibility
226(2)
SWF File Metadata
228(3)
15 Cross-media Publishing 231(10)
Publishing Profiles
232(1)
Exporting Stills
233(1)
Exporting with Audio
234(1)
Exporting for Video Output
235(1)
About Compression
236(1)
Compositing Your Flash Movie
236(1)
Alpha Channels
237(1)
How Did That Work?
237(1)
Putting Your Flash Movie onto Video
238(1)
Putting Your Flash Movie onto DVD
239(1)
Exporting Projectors
239(1)
Creating a Hybrid CD
240(1)
Appendix: Resources 241(4)
Web Usage Statistics
242(1)
Web Design Info
242(1)
Accessibility
242(1)
More About Mobile Devices
242(1)
Sound Resources on the Web
242(1)
ActionScripting Tutorials on the Web
242(1)
Flash Animation Tutorials on the Web
243(1)
Animation Resources on the Web
243(1)
Further Reading on Character Animation
243(1)
Further Reading on Motion Graphics
243(1)
Further Reading on Flash
243(2)
Index 245

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