Flash Cs4: The Missing Manual

by Chris Grover

Unlock the power of Flash and bring gorgeous animations to life onscreen. It's easy with Flash CS4: The Missing Manual. You'll start creating animations in the first chapter, and will learn to produce effective, well-planned visuals that get your message across. This entertaining new edition includes a complete primer on animation, a guided tour of the program's tools, lots of new illustrations, and more details on working with video. Beginners will learn to use the software in no time, and experienced Flash designers will improve their skills. Expanded and revised to cover the new version of Flash, every chapter in this book provides step-by-step tutorials to help you: Learn to draw objects, animate them, and integrate your own audio and video files Add interactivity, use special effects, learn morphing, and much more Check your work with the book's online example files and completed animations Discover new Flash toolkits and features such as Frameless Animation Use every timesaving aspect of Flash CS4, such as Library objects and Symbols Learn how to automate your drawings and animations with ActionScript 3.0

With this book, absolutely no programming is necessary to get started with Flash CS4. Flash CS4: The Missing Manual explains in jargon-free English exactly what you need to know to use Flash effectively, while avoiding common pitfalls, right from the start.

752 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 25, 2008

Reviews

[James F. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a valuable addition to the Missing Manual series. This edition, like many others in the series, is best utilized by its owner by the hands-on, doing-is-learning approach. Anyone who has used Flash in the past may find the book simplistic in parts. First-time-users of Flash will probably find this manual too intimidating.

Whatever your knowledge and interest in Flash, owners of this manual will get the most out of their purchase by downloading the sample files to practice what is preached. The index and tutorials are of great assistance in learning to use just some of the capabilities of the software program, Flash CS4.

[Cgoldby · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't think this was nearly as informative or enjoyable to read as most of the other Missing Manual series that I have read. In fact, I found that I needed to do a lot of research elsewhere after reading it to really get a grasp on anything slightly more complicated in Flash.

[September · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has saved my sanity. No more intense summer school courses. What was I thinking? I haven't seen my friends and family in 7 weeks! LOL