Flash Cs4 All-In-One for Dummies

by Doug Sahlin, William B. Sanders

Ready to take your Flash skills to the next level? Learn how to use Adobe Flash CS4 to create innovative interactive experiences! "Flash CS4 All-In-One For Dummies" shows you how to create professional, cool projects, step by step, from start to finish.Whether you're working on your first Flash project or you're a veteran Flash animator ready to get into more advanced applications, "Flash CS4 All-In-One For Dummies" walks you through Flash's new tricks and explains how to use them. You'll get the skinny on new features including inverse kinematics, motion tweening, and Motion Editor. You'll also find out how to: Work with panelsTake advantage of an ActionScriptCreate and plan your first projectFollow the ins and outs of Flash graphicsNavigate your way around the swatches panelGet your video on the Web using YouTubeUtilize Flash audio and videoDevelop with the Flash timeline

To help you quickly find what you need, "Flash CS4 All-In-One For Dummies" is divided into eight minibooks: Introducing FlashCreating GraphicsAnimating GraphicsAdding ActionScript 3.0 MagicWorking with Flash AudioWorking with Flash VideoGetting InteractiveFinalizing a Flash Project

"Flash CS4 All-In-One For Dummies" will help make your experience animating in Flash much easier!

640 pages, ebook

First published May 27, 2008

About the author

Doug Sahlin is a bestselling author living in Venice, Florida. He has been a writer since he was a young man. Sahlin has published over twenty how-to books, many of them bestsellers. He has also published two mystery novels in the Yale Larsson PI Books series. When he gave New York Literary Agent Donald Maas his thirty second elevator pitch for a mystery novel, Maas said, "Doug, you have a wonderfully sick mind."

Doug published his first Yale Larsson PI novel, The Myakka Murders in 2019, followed by Sarasota Sour Grapes in 2020. He is currently working on Yale Larsson PI Book 4, A Pocketful of Euros. Sahlin's novels are based in Sarasota, Florida, a piece of paradise on the West Coast of Florida.

Praise for Doug's writing: "Doug Sahlin writes with a great eye for detail and an ear for dialogue."
Mark Mathes--Editor

Praise for "Doug's first novel, The Myakka Murders:
"A must read for murder mystery lovers." Ceil Warren

Doug Sahlin's web site