Foundation Flash 8

By Kristian Besley, Sham Bhangal

Foundation Flash 8 is the book you need if you're looking for a solid foundation in Flash 8 Basic and Flash 8 Professional.

Thousands upon thousands of designers have already learned from its previous editions and it's easy to understand why.

The fourth edition of friends of ED's legendary beginner Flash book, Foundation Flash 8 uses a series of structured exercises and detailed discussions to help you start your exploration of Flash. The detailed tutorial style will ensure that you retain the knowledge you gain and are able to draw upon it throughout your Flash career. Foundation Flash 8 features a running case study that evolves into a fully functional Flash website as you work through the tutorials, so you'll immediately see everything that you learn being used in a practical project.

This book focuses on the core skills that you need to get started working with Flash 8: understanding the interface, becoming familiar with the creative tools and their capabilities, grasping the relationships between the different components that make up a Flash movie, and getting insight into how to put all the pieces together to create your own Flash-based website.

Summary of Contents

• Chapter 1: Flash Movie Essentials
• Chapter 2: The Flash Tools Panel
• Chapter 3: Flash Symbols and Libraries
• Chapter 4: Managing Content
• Chapter 5: Working with Color and Images
• Chapter 6: Motion Tweening
• Chapter 7 Shape Tweening
• Chapter 8: Masks and Masking
• Chapter 9: Advanced Animation, Effects, and Commands
• Chapter 10: Actions and Interactions
• Chapter 11: Intelligent Actions
• Chapter 12: Multimedia: Sound and Video
• Chapter 13: Optimizing
• Chapter 14: Publishing
• Chapter 15: Intermediate ActionScript, Part 1
• Chapter 16: Intermediate ActionScript, Part 2
• Chapter 17: High-Level Site Design
• Chapter 18: Futurescape

This book is part of friends of ED's 'Foundation' series

The Foundation series is perfect for beginners to a technology, because it doesn't assume any previous knowledge. Each book in the series takes you step by step through your chosen technology, starting with the absolute fundamentals and working through all aspects of the technology, ultimately providing you with a firm grasp of the basics that will enable you to create your own applications or web sites. You will learn by following complete examples at every stage of your journey, often by extended case studies that you will build upon throughout the book. The Foundation series will give you the broad and solid base you need in order to progress to a higher level of expertise.