Flash MX 2004 For New Users and Professionals

Confused by ActionScript? Want to get to grips with creating interactive graphics and animation in Flash quickly? Whether you are a new user or a professional illustrator, designer or animator experienced in other animation and effects packages, this highly visual, color book will be all you need to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hosea, Birgitta, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego : Focal Press [Imprint] Elsevier Science & Technology Books Sept. 2004
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Focal easy guide series.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627422106719
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  • Front Cover; The Focal Easy Guide to Flash MX 2004; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. Introduction; History and Development of the Program; What is it Used for?; How to Use This Book; 2. Interface; The Start Page; What are all the Windows for?; The Stage; The Timeline; Panel Sets and Customizing Your Interface; Using the Help files; Flash Documents; Naming Files and Working Cross Platform; 3. Vector Drawing; The Drawing Tools; Drawing a Line; The Shape Tools; Drawing with the Pencil tool; Painting with the Brush tool; Using the Pen tool and the Subselection tool; Changing Colors
  • Creating Gradient FillsTransform Fill Tool; Creating Text; Spell Checker; 4. Selecting and Modifying; Making Selections; Modifying Drawings; The Free Transform Tool; Ink Bottle Tool; Paint Bucket Tool; Dropper Tool; Eraser Tool; Changing Your View; Using Layers; Step by Step Manually Create a Drop Shadow; Rulers, Guides and Grids; Step by Step to Create a Perspective Grid; At a Glance Keyboard Shortcuts for the Tools; 5. Importing Images; Vectors vs. Bitmaps; Still Image File Types You can Import; To Import a Still Image into Flash; Importing Images with Areas of Transparency; Tracing Bitmaps
  • Painting with Bitmaps6. Navigation 1 - buttons; Button Symbols; Libraries; Creating a Button Symbol; What is a Symbol?; What is a Keyframe?; What is a Behavior?; Step by step to Create a Links Page; Using Movie Clip Symbols; Step-by-step Animated Rollover Buttons; 7. Navigation 2 - Menus; Button Actions and Frame Actions; Creating a Basic Menu; Menus and Submenus; An Online Portfolio; Loading Images; 'Mail to' Link; 8. Animation; Creating a Banner Ad with Frame-by-Frame Animation; Separating and Locking Layers; Using Keyframes; Onion Skinning; Frame Rate and Size
  • Can't I Just Change These Settings After my Animation is Finished?Symbol Animation; Creating Graphic Symbols and Instances; Motion Tweening; Editing Symbols; Summary; 9. More Animation Techniques; Using Motion Paths; Easing; Shape Tweening; Animated Highlights; Animating Gradients; Mask Layers; 10. Further Animation Techniques; Timeline Effects; Animated Symbols; Creating a Looped Background; Copying and Pasting Frames; Symbols Within Symbols; Altering Symbol Center Points; Using Scenes; Character Design Tips; 11. Sound; Creating Sounds to Bring into Flash; Some Fundamentals of Digital Audio
  • Importing SoundsStreaming vs. Event Sounds; Editing Sounds in Flash; Attach a Sound to a Button; Adding Comments to Frames; Warning about File Sizes; 12. Video; What is Digital Video?; How do you Bring it into Your Computer?; Using Video in Flash; Rotoscoping; Preparing for Video Output; 13. Designing For Cross-Media; Planning a Web Site; Information Architecture; Design for the Web; Planning for Animation; 14. Putting Flash on the web; Accessibility; Project Management Tips; Tips for Lowering File Sizes; Testing Your Work; Anatomy of a Web Site; Exporting; Creating Pre-Loaders; Uploading
  • 15. Cross-media Publishing