Book description
You can build everything from simple animations to full-fledged iOS and Android apps with Flash CS5.5, but learning this complex program can be difficult—unless you have this fully updated, bestselling guide. Learn how to create gorgeous Flash effects even if you have no programming experience. With Flash CS5.5: The Missing Manual, you'll move from the basics to power-user tools with ease.
- Learn animation basics. Discover how to turn simple ideas into stunning animations.
- Master Flash's tools. Learn the animation and effects tools with clear explanations and hands-on examples.
- Use 3D effects. Rotate objects and make them move in three dimensions.
- Create lifelike motion. Use the IK Bones tool to simulate realistic body movements and other linked motions.
- Build apps for tablets and smartphones. Create the next generation of iPhone, iPad, and Android apps.
- Add multimedia. Incorporate your own audio and video files into Flash.
- Create rich interactive animations. Dive into advanced interactivity with easy-to-learn ActionScript examples.
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Table of contents
- Flash CS5.5: The Missing Manual
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
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One. Creating a Flash Animation
- 1. Getting Around Flash
- 2. Creating Simple Drawings
- 3. Animate Your Art
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Two. Advanced Drawing and Animation
- 4. Organizing Frames and Layers
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5. Advanced Drawing and Coloring
- Selecting Graphic Elements
- Manipulating Graphic Elements
- Spray Painting Symbols
- Drawing with the Deco Tool
- Advanced Color and Fills
- 6. Choosing and Formatting Text
- 7. Reusable Flash: Symbols and Templates
- 8. Advanced Tweens with the Motion Editor
- 9. Realistic Animation with IK Bones
- 10. Incorporating Non-Flash Media Files
- 11. Incorporating Sound and Video
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Three. Adding Interactivity
- 12. Introduction to ActionScript 3
- 13. Controlling Actions with Events
- 14. Organizing Objects with the Display List
- 15. Controlling the Timeline and Animation
- 16. Components for Interactivity
- 17. Choosing, Using, and Animating Text
- 18. Drawing with ActionScript
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Four. Debugging and Delivering Your Animation
- 19. Testing and Debugging Your Animation
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20. Publishing and Exporting
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Optimizing Flash Documents
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Ten Optimization Strategies
- 1. Use as few keyframes and property keyframes as possible
- 2. Choose the Pencil tool over the Brush tool
- 3. Choose solid over dashed or dotted lines
- 4. Optimize curves and shapes
- 5. Use symbols
- 6. Test bitmaps and vectors, then choose the most efficient option
- 7. Keep sound clips to a minimum (or optimize them)
- 8. Group elements
- 9. Avoid the extraneous
- 10. Tell Flash to keep your file size down
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Ten Optimization Strategies
- Publishing Your Animations
- Exporting Flash to Other Formats
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Optimizing Flash Documents
- 21. Introducing Adobe AIR
- 22. Making iPhone Apps
- 23. Building Android Apps
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Five. Appendixes
- A. Installation and Help
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B. Flash Professional CS5.5, Menu by Menu
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File
- New
- Open
- Browse in Bridge
- Open Recent
- Close
- Close All
- Save
- Save As
- Save as Template
- Check In
- Save All
- Revert
- Import
- Export
- Publish Settings
- Publish Preview
- Publish
- AIR Settings
- AIR for iOS Settings
- AIR for Android Settings
- File Info
- Share My Screen
- Page Setup
- Print Margins (Mac only)
- Send (Windows only)
- Exit (Mac: Flash→Quit Flash)
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Edit
- Undo
- Redo
- Cut
- Copy
- Paste in Center
- Paste in Place
- Clear
- Duplicate
- Select All
- Deselect All
- Find and Replace
- Find Next
- Timeline
- Edit Symbols/Document
- Edit Selected
- Edit in Place
- Edit All
- Preferences (Mac: Flash→Preferences)
- Customize Tools Panel (Mac: Flash→Customize Tools Panel)
- Font Mapping (Mac: Flash→Font Mapping)
- Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac: Flash→Keyboard Shortcuts)
- View
- Insert
- Modify
- Text
- Commands
- Control
- Debug
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Window
- Duplicate Window
- Toolbars
- Timeline
- Motion Editor
- Tools
- Properties
- Library
- Common Libraries
- Motion Presets
- Project
- Actions
- Code Snippets
- Behaviors
- Compiler Errors
- Debug Panels
- Movie Explorer
- Output
- Align
- Color
- Info
- Swatches
- Transform
- Components
- Component Inspector
- Other Panels
- Extensions
- Workspace
- Hide Panels
- Help
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File
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Flash CS5.5: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2011
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449398255
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