by Lynn Kyle (Author)
Learn how to create the most common Flash effects and how to add Flash effects to a site in a fast learning environment. Simple, practical focus, learn how to complete meaningful tasks.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 257
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall Flash is Macromedia's standard for interactive vector graphics and animation on the Web -- and Flash 4 is the most powerful version yet! Now, learn Flash 4 in a flash from professional Web designers who teach through real-world projects you can actually view live on a linked Web site! Start with the Flash basics: drawing and modifying text and shapes; using texture fills, transparency, and imported graphics. Discover how to animate pages using timelines, frames, tweening and fading; then add interactivity with symbols, buttons, actions, and sound effects. Walk through the process of publishing to the Web, including pre-loading, detecting the Flash plug-in, and controlling server settings. Fine-tune your graphics with reshaping, intersections, and brush effects; build animated opening sequences; use transitions, forms, and more. Best of all, the book's projects are linked with a live Web site where you can see (and download) the same Flash effects in various stages of completion.
Published: 19 Oct 1999
ISBN 10: 0130143278
ISBN 13: 9780130143273
Book Overview:
Lynn Kyle is President and Founder of Ricochet Associates, Los Alamos, NM. Ricochet's Web clients have included DeBeers, Pfizer, and Lloyd's of London.