Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 006 EAN: 9780596510589 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596510586 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 456 Publication Date: September 15, 2007 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 308403 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionDynamic Learning: Flash CS3 Professional is like having access to a top-notch team of your very own instructors. Written by product experts and trainers who have produced many of Adobe's training titles, the book takes you step-by-step through the process of learning to use Flash CS3 like a pro.
This full-color book is organized into lessons, with easy-to-follow instructions, tips, examples, and review questions at the end of every lesson. Each lesson is self-contained, so you can go through the entire book sequentially or just focus on individual lessons.
Topics covered include:
What's new in Flash CS3 Professional
Flash CS3 jumpstart
Drawing tools
Modifying and transforming graphics
Working with symbols and the library
ActionScript
Working with video and audio
The DVD that is included with the book includes video tutorials and all of the files you'll need to complete the lessons, from the starting images and elements to the final, completed Flash animations. A free Instructor's Guide is available online.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Ok.
I got this for a class and then just did the book rather than taking the class. It is a good beginning to flash, but just a beginning. I need to learn a lot more to really know how the program works. This may be a limitation of me and not the book.
Rating: - Basic Introduction to Flash CS3
This book is a solid introduction to Flash CS3 fundamentals. It will be most useful to designers with no previous Flash experience and to programmers wishing to familiarize themselves with the Flash environment. The lessons are clear, easy to follow and cover all the basics. The sample projects are supported with well organized step-by-step screen shots of the menu bars, timelines, animation frames, property inspector and code. They are also supported with video demonstrations of key concepts from ... Read More
Rating: - A decent technical introduction to Flash CS3
The exercises are adequate to teach the basics of Flash CS3.
For me, though, the example projects seemed fairly pedestrian, and I found myself wanting to be able to do more by the end of the book.
I'd recommend one or more of the Foundation "Friends of Ed" books over this one, mainly because they cover more and seem to appeal more to the creative spirit of the reader. After all, creativity is what it's all about, right? ;)
Rating: - video files don't open
HI ,
Just bought this book to begin to learn FLASH. I use a PowerBook G4 1GB memory 1.67GHz. I tried to open the video files but could not open it.I have Flash 9 player and Adobe CS3 premium. clicking on the icons opens flash 9 but does not open the file. It will not open on a PC either, only way to open it is by converting to a different format using web based tools. I converted some to .mov files which play but the video is fuzzy. Working through the book hopefully the rest will be more helpful.
Rating: - Great book!
This book is great. The step by step instructions are great for any level of flash CS3 user. There isn't much ActionScript in this book so that is what you are looking for this book is not for you.
- Ok.
