Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book
Those creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Flash Professional CS5 choose Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 10 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Flash CS5.
Readers learn what they need to know to create engaging interactive content with Flash CS5. In addition to learning the key elements of the Flash interface, i
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Review by M. Scheuerlein for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book
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The content of the book is excellent for beginners, but the whole book is centered on going through step by step lessons which use the sample files included on the CD which DOES NOT come with the Kindle version. I’ve been given a refund and I will buy the paperback version instead that does include the much needed CD. Until the Kindle purchase include additional downloads of the needed material, don’t waste your time purchasing. On a very positive note, Amazon customer service was very helpful and prompt in responding to me.
Review by Frank Stepanski for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book
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With the new recent version of Flash CS5, there are lots of new upates that Flash designers are looking forward to, mostly the improved ActionScript interface, better “bones” animation, improved text rendering, improved physics, better cur points for shape tweening, etc.
All the new features are explained in detail in this new version of the every popular Adobe Flash book. The classroom in the book series has been the defacto standard in learning Flash and all its new version updates over the years. This book is no different, the author goes through all the great new features and explains them beautifully and in great detail.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Getting Aquainted
Chapter 2: Working with Graphics
Chapter 3: Creating and Editing Symbols
Chapter 4: Adding Animation
Chapter 5: Atriculated Motion and Morphing
Chapter 6: Creating Interactive Navigation
Chapter 7: Using Text
Chapter 8: Working with Sound and Video
Chapter 9: loading and Controlling Flash Content
Chapter 10: Publishing Flash Documents
I really enjoyed chapter (lesson) 6 focusing on interactive navigation. No matter what web technology you use on the web, you always need a navigation system and this chapter really explains it well. The author first talks about the various methods flash designers/developers can create navigation menus with Flash and with other technologies (CSS and JavaScript) and then goes into the example that shows a really neat way of using interactive movies, invisible buttons and a little AS to create a cool looking, visually pleasing menu.
The author also really explains ActionScript 3.0 very well when needed in certain chapters. Its hard to explain some techniques in Flash without covering a little ActionScript and the author really explains exactly what is going on and helps the newbie on how AS does and works with the examples discussed.
This is the best book on learning the basics of the newest version of Flash (CS5) and all the new features as well. A great buy!
Review by José Miguel Lorenzo Salazar for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book
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This books is clear written, classroom focused, and useful for begineers and medium-level Adobe Flash Professional CS5 users. The companion DVD tutorials are also useful for students.
Review by GalCalif for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book
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This is a good book to read through to get a review of Flash and some of the new CS5 features. It is most definitely not a reference book, however. I had a nice DVD with some video learning courseware included. If you want a decent book to run through some examples to remind you of things you forgot about Flash and the Flash IDE and get some exposure to new CS5 features, it is worth it. I would recommend getting it, reading it and reselling it. It is not the kind of book you keep as a reference, but it is worth running through once at least.