Create Macromedia Flash Movies
Julie C. Meloni, Dan Ransom, Mary Donahue
Résumé
The Internet is no longer new technology. It's a standard resource for information, shopping, and entertainment. In today's Internet-saturated culture, it is critical to have an eye-catching Web site that effectively promotes your message, and Create Macromedia® FlashTM Movies In a Weekend® is your guide to doing just that! This book is a step-by-step learning tool that will have you doing everything from drawing and creating shapes to creating your own interactive movies in just one weekend!
Inside you'll find:
- Detailed steps for creating animations and interactive movies with Flash
- Instructions for using the Flash drawing tools to create lines and shapes
- Tips on how and when to change font types, sizes, and colors
- Information on importing graphics and sounds
- Guidance in working with Flash layers and scenes
What's on the CD-ROM:
- 30-Day trial of Macromedia® FlashTM 5 for Mac® and Windows®
- 30-Day trial of Macromedia® FreeHand® 9 for Mac® and Windows®
- Sample movies from the book sessions
- Functioning movie templates to help jump-start your Flash movie development
Introduction
Friday Evening: Getting Started with Flash
5
Getting Help with Flash 5
Using the Macromedia Lesson Topics
Using the Macromedia Sample Files
Take a Break
Introducing the Toolbox
Select and Rotate Objects
Select and Scale Objects
Adding Text to Your Movie
Creating a Fixed-Width Text Box
Using the Paragraph Panel
Saturday Morning: Drawing Simple Shapes
Introducing the Drawing Tools
Using the Pencil Tool
Using the Stroke Panel
Using the Ink Modifier
Drawing a Series of Lines
Drawing Curvy Lines with the Pen Tool
Using the Oval and Rectangle Tools
Drawing Circles
Drawing Rectangles
Drawing Squares
Rounded Rectangles
Using the Eraser Tool
What's Next
Saturday Afternoon: Manipulating Shapes, and Other
Odds and Ends
Segmenting and Connecting
Tweaking Lines and Curves
Curving Lines
Connecting Shapes
Take a Break
Finishing Your Flower Movie
Coloring the Sky
Publishing for the Web
Saturday Evening: Color and Design
Defining and Using Colors
About the Web-Safe Color Palette
How Colors Are Defined
HSB Values
Hexadecimal Values
Using the Color Mixer
The Color Mixer and Existing Objects
Changing HSB Values
Creating a Linear Gradient Fill
Sunday Morning: Scenes, Layers, and Your
Library
Working with Layers
Creating a New Layer
Rearranging the Layer Order
Deleting a Layer
Hiding and Locking Layers
Locking and Unlocking a Layer
Deleting a Scene
Introducing the Library
Creating and Organizing Your Own Libraries
Renaming a Symbol
Creating a Folder and Moving Symbols
Editing Symbols
Sunday Afternoon: All About Animation
Creating Keyframes and Your Timeline
Changing the Stage at Keyframes
Creating Transitions and a Storyboard
Changing the Frame View
Tweening Size and Rotation
Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?
Adding Simple Actions to Your Button
Using the Go To Action
Testing Your Button
Linking to Web Pages
Sunday Evening: Creating Your Final Project
Working with the Movie Clips
Adjusting Text and Adding Effects
Converting Text to a Movie Clip
Making and Coloring the Chase Plane
Animating the Planes
Converting to a Movie
Creating a Cube
Creating the Shape Tween
The Control Panel
The Basic Button
Adding Controls to the Buttons
Creating the Rest of the Scenes
Finishing Touches
Publishing Your Final Project
Appendix A
Bonus Session: Beyond the Basics
Using Raster Images in Flash
Appendix B
Installing Flash 5
Installing Flash on Your Mac
Appendix C
Keyboard Shortcuts
Appendix D
Additional Resources
Flash 5 Web Sites
Online Tutorials
Flash Resources
Sound Files
Appendix E
Using the CD
Running the CD with MacOS
Index
L'auteur - Julie C. Meloni
Julie Meloni is the technical director for i2i Interactive, a multimedia company located in Campbell, CA (that's just down the street from San Jose). She's been developing Web-based applications since the Web first saw the light of day and remembers the excitement surrounding the first GUI Web browser. She is the author of several books and articles on Web-based programming languages and database topics, and you can find translations of her work in several languages, including Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish.
L'auteur - Dan Ransom
As a developer and designer of Web pages, Dan Ransom currently helps maintains over a dozen Internet domains. When he is not creating Flash movies Dan specializes in cross-browser HTML, JavaScript, and DHTML. He lives in Sacramento and plays the harmonica, badly.
L'auteur - Mary Donahue
Mary Donahue is the creative director at i2i Interactive, focused on multimedia and web development projects. She brings the artistic aspect to this book as the creator of the clip art library.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Prima Publishing |
| Auteur(s) | Julie C. Meloni, Dan Ransom, Mary Donahue |
| Parution | 01/05/2001 |
| Nb. de pages | 308 |
| Format | 18,6 x 23,3 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 588g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780761528661 |
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