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How to Wow with Flash
Colin Smith

ISBN-10: 0321426495
ISBN-13: 9780321426499

Publisher: Peachpit Press
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 232 pp
Published: 08/22/2006

Suggested retail price: $39.99
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could have one of the world’s most accomplished and sought after Flash teachers sitting next to you at your computer as you navigate the infinite possibilities of Macromedia Flash 8?

How to Wow with Flash is the next best thing. Flash powerhouse—Colin Smith—renowned author, Web designer, and trainer, has developed an effective way to help you reach your full creative potential. Just like great cookbooks—the ones with short, clear-cut instructions and mouth-watering photos of the delectable concoctions—this book identifies challenges, provides simple recipes for overcoming them, and plugs in inspirational full-color photos of the glorious results.

Colin guides you step-by-step through real-world projects, with an emphasis on uncompromising quality, last-minute flexibility, and go-home-at-night speed! You’ll learn tips and techniques on everything from common workflow problems and exciting Web animation techniques to custom projects and movies using Flash 8. This is a fast paced book that exposes the secrets to making things move in new ways, add interactivity, sound and video to make audiences go wow!

This book begins with the essentials of workflow and Flash foundations (including Frames, Keyframes, creating shapes, blend modes) and then moves on to motion and effects, sound and video, and widgets and interactivity. Next comes the fun with creative projects such creating sweeping motion using custom easing, generating interactive navigation, creating slide shows, using masks, producing stunning effects with Flash 8’s new filters, adding looping music, and more. The How to Wow! companion CD makes it a snap and is packed with everything you need to work through the projects in the book and start creating your own Web sites and animations that wow!

From animating to creating effects and adding video and sound—short, simple recipes for wowing audiences with Flash!

  • Emphasizing quality, flexibility, and speed, this book/CD combo offers practical instruction and inspiring examples to get users creating with Flash.
  • Offers a rare opportunity to learn from (and work along with) a master author, trainer, and award-winning new-media designer Colin Smith.
  • Covers all of the exciting features new to Flash 8: filters for creating spectacular effects, the ability to create mobile applications, improved embedded video, and more.

Author, trainer, and new-media designer Colin Smith is the founder of the world’s most popular Photoshop resource site, PhotoshopCAFE.com, and was formerly senior editor and art director for Voice magazine. He is also a columnist and regular contributor to several graphic art publications and Web sites as well as the author of more than a dozen books, including the best-selling How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS. 

Wouldn’t it be great if you could have one of the world’s most accomplished and sought after Flash teachers sitting next to you at your computer as you navigate the infinite possibilities of Macromedia Flash 8?

How to Wow with Flash is the next best thing. Flash powerhouse—Colin Smith—renowned author, Web designer, and trainer, has developed an effective way to help you reach your full creative potential. Just like great cookbooks—the ones with short, clear-cut instructions and mouth-watering photos of the delectable concoctions—this book identifies challenges, provides simple recipes for overcoming them, and plugs in inspirational full-color photos of the glorious results.

Colin guides you step-by-step through real-world projects, with an emphasis on uncompromising quality, last-minute flexibility, and go-home-at-night speed! You’ll learn tips and techniques on everything from common workflow problems and exciting Web animation techniques to custom projects and movies using Flash 8. This is a fast paced book that exposes the secrets to making things move in new ways, add interactivity, sound and video to make audiences go wow!

This book begins with the essentials of workflow and Flash foundations (including Frames, Keyframes, creating shapes, blend modes) and then moves on to motion and effects, sound and video, and widgets and interactivity. Next comes the fun with creative projects such creating sweeping motion using custom easing, generating interactive navigation, creating slide shows, using masks, producing stunning effects with Flash 8’s new filters, adding looping music, and more. The How to Wow! companion CD makes it a snap and is packed with everything you need to work through the projects in the book and start creating your own Web sites and animations that wow!

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    Bonus CD, included with the book, contains all the images you’ll need to follow along with each project!
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