Macromedia Flash 8 Step by Step Training

Features

• Plastic Comb: 92 pages
• Published by: Noble Desktop July 2005
• ISBN 10 Number: 0977315797
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0977315796
• Book Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Description
In this workbook you'll be taken step-by-step through a variety of exercises that will show you basic animation, type manipulation, animated buttons with sound, how to place Flash movies in web pages, full screen interactive presentations, linking scenes to create a full site, and much more. Instructions are written for both Mac and PC. Class Files CD included (works on Mac & PC).

About The Author
Noble Desktop has been teaching courses in desktop publishing and web design since 1991. We currently offer comprehensive day and evening classes in QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Web Site Creation (featuring HTML and Macromedia Dreamweaver), Macromedia Flash, and Final Cut Pro.

Reader Reviews
If you want to get up to speed in Flash quickly and easily, this is the book for you. Unlike some of those enormous tomes out there that purport to teach Flash, with this book you'll learn Flash in, well, a flash. It's all about the way the book is structured. If you signed up for classroom training in Flash 8 at Noble Desktop, New York City's legendary Web Design school, this is the book they would give you on the first day of class. Noble's courses are well received in the industry because the Noble teachers have luminous reputations for effectiveness. This course book was written by those teachers and you couldn't find a better how-to book anywhere. It's like having an instructor at your elbow. Take tweening. Tweening, the Flash technique where one shape morphs into another, is one of the basic techniques for creating Flash animations. This book, because it's so effective and to the point, will have you doing tweens in an hour or so. All the other basic Flash techniques, from making text do an onscreen song-and-dance to creating genuine cartoon animations, are found in this book. The price, at $75, might seem steep. But the Flash course at Noble Desktop costs almost ten times that much so, in a way, you are getting a deal. Me, I took the course so I can tell you that you can't go wrong by trying out the course's course book. It's almost as good as the course itself and, in my opinion, far better than most of the Flash books out there. Terry Dunne