For courses in Flash and Web Design.
Learning Macromedia Flash 5 provides students the knowledge and experience they need to design and build animations for use on Web pages, in presentations, and as stand-alone movies. The total-immersion, hands-on tutorial walks students step by step, mouse-click by mouse-click, keystroke by keystroke through the various features of Macromedia Flash 5―e.g., graphics, simple and advanced animation techniques, sound, text, and programming scripts. The well-illustrated, spiral-bound manual contains easy-to-read, appealingly formatted procedural explanations and step-by-step exercises in a multi-part Lesson format.
Animate Web Pages and Presentations The concepts, illustrations, and hands-on exercises in Learning Macromedia® Flash 5 will teach you the tools to add animation, musical tracks, and sound effects to Web pages and standalone presentations. With Flash, you can combine sound, shapes, and images to create simple animations, such as a logo that rotates across the screen, or complex, interactive movies such as an animated game of Tic Tac Toe
How Learning Macromedia® Flash 5 is Organized Learning Macromedia Flash 5 is divided into 6 lessons,
each devoted to a particular area of the software. YOU'LL FIND THESE LESSONS: - Lesson 1, Flash 5 Basics, introduces basic Flash concepts and the Flash interface.
- Lesson 2, Create a Movie, teaches you how to create animations.
- Lesson 3, Enhance a Movie, shows how to add sounds and actions, as well as import pictures created with other programs, scanned images, or graphics you have purchased or downloaded from the Internet.
- Lesson 4, Publish a Movie, teaches you to preview a movie, export images, test the download performance of a movie, and publish all of the files necessary to play a movie on the Web.
- Lesson 5, Advanced Flash, covers such skills as creating interactive text fields and dynamic text, managing libraries, and creating a printable movie.
- Lesson 6, Projects and Challenges, has you test your knowledge of Flash features by creating an interactive game and a flying logo. You also practice using sound and special effects to create exciting and interesting animations.