Accelerate Your Flash Skills with This Practical, Sophisticated Guide

Flash MX 2004 Accelerated: A Full-Color Guide gets you up and running in a flash through hands-on experience creating meaningful, fun projects. Its learn-by-doing approach makes the road to proficiency quick and painless. Start off with a clear-cut introduction to the essential concepts, functions, and terminology that are difficult to grasp on your own. Then, immediately put your new skills to the test by following the step-by-step practical exercises.

Full-color, crisp screenshots and graphics on every page give you a clear image of what's possible. Dozens of real-world examples, from straightforward to advanced, demonstrate how to integrate techniques and pull all your knowledge together. By the end, you'll know how to enrich your website with animation, special effects, audio, and motion.

Projects you will complete include:

• Draw an animated logo
• Design backgrounds using bitmap images
• Animate a boy on a skateboard
• Import video into a movie
• Add animation to buttons
• Attach sound to buttons
• Create transparent Flash movies
• Simulate motion blur for a bouncing ball
• Make an animated E-card
• Create movies that can be played from CD-ROM
• Direct a movie using simulated camera movement

CD Description

The CD features all the Flash source files you will need to practice and complete the exercises in the book, along with demo software and helpful utilities.