The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book contains 10 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Flash CS4 Professional and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn how to design Flash projects with sophisticated animation, import video and sound files, and integrate buttons with compelling interactivity using ActionScript 3.0. Powerful features such as the new Motion Editor, inverse kinematics, and support for 3D will make developing your Flash sites fast, easy, and fun. "The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students." --Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training Classroom in a Book(R), the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does--an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
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This is a great book to give a sound grounding in Flash. While the topics are covered fairly briefly, the examples are easy to follow and the topics looked at are enough to give the reader a good idea how to use Flash to produce fairly complicated animations, including embedding video, loading external content and optimising for the web, as well as the basics of drawing skills, layers, frames and a little actionscript.
Good book to get you started with building good websites in Flash. The book also only uses Actionscript 3.0 but lacked good explanations for the coding. It was a good thing i got "Learning ActionScript 3.0" with this book. The book is pretty thorough on listing all the most dominant features of Flash CS4 so i'll give it a good rating.
This book makes it pretty easy to follow and it made a beginner to Flash really understand what was going on and how to do certain things. Highly recommended.