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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS3 Professional in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself)

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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS3 Professional in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself)

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780672329371
ISBN: 0672329379
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2007-06-18
Publisher: Sams
Studio: Sams
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Summary: The Opposite of Flash?
Comment: Positives:
- Simple examples, "baby's first Adobe app" type of stuff.
- Plenty of focus on the Flash UI; you'll know what all the important knobs and dials are for.
- Interesting sidebars explaining complex topics like registration vs. transformation points.

Cons:
- Simple examples. If you've used any Adobe app, you'll be yawning for the first 6 "hours".
- The more lengthy examples are difficult to follow as several steps are combined into one step. E.g. "3) Do X, Y, Z, A, B." which makes following quite difficult as you glance up at Flash and back down to the book, you lose your place within the individual step.
- Examples do little to inspire. I'm halfway through the book and yawning. Right-click around the web and you'll see "About Adobe Flash Player 9..." on some really compelling presentations, both interactive and otherwise. I have to wonder if they're using the same Flash this book is teaching.
- Figures frequently not on the same page, further complicating following of the examples.

A solid 3 stars for me. Not terrific, not too bad. Would recommend for some (Adobe newbies) and not for others (creative suite pros looking to add another Adobe app notch to their belts).

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Summary: Senior citizen (retired teacher) says book is excellent
Comment: I am a retired senior citizen, taught high school and college some years back, owned a small software consulting company and was in the aerospace industry in the 1960's. Been in the computer field one way or another full time since 1964. Thought it may be fun to learn Flash CS3 Professional on my own to enhance designing lite web sites I manage. Purchased Phllip Kerman's book. It is pleasant to read, easy to follow yet technically pulls you right in. This is a perfect book to learn Flash CS3 Professional. Look no further - a self-instructing text can hardly get any better. If I were back teaching in the classroom, I would use this as my textbook of choice!
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Summary: Solid Introductory Text
Comment: Starting off with Flash CS3, I watched all the video tutorials available freely from Adobe. These are quite good, but they also tend to assume you already know Flash- either from a previous version or from the help tutorials (which aren't so hot). In most cases, they already have everything set up and ready to go, and you have no idea how they even got to the starting point. Additionally, the coverage of the basic functionality of the stage, objects, and instances is very brief and not too thorough. The biggest problem with these tutorials is that it's very cumbersome to follow along with them without hitting the pause button every 10 seconds, since the folks doing them obviously are experts with the Flash interface and just plow through their examples at breakneck speed.

This Sam's book does a really good job of filling in those important parts, and does it in a step-by-step approach that lets you go at your own pace. It assumes absolutely NO prior knowledge of ActionScript or Flash, so those coming in cold will have no problems. Each chapter (or 'hour') is well-written and can be taken stand-alone if the reader is already familiar with some topics. Each exercise walks you through from the very beginning, and most don't depend on a previous one. The coverage is quite basic- by the end, you'll be able to do such things as import video, make simple interactive movies, do basic scripting and animation, and deploy it to a website. For more advanced things, you'll need other resources (of which there are- quite literally- tons of books available) but after reading this you'll have a very solid foundation to build from. From there you can do simple projects and can decide what (if anything) you would care to learn more about.

In my opinion, the sections on ActionScript are explained quite well, though admittedly I'm a very experienced programmer that had no problems understanding the syntax. Those who have no programming experience might find it a bit tougher; for those that want to learn this and care a great deal about it, there are whole books dedicated just to learning ActionScript (e.g. Learning ActionScript 3.0 by Shupe and Rosser). The only other possible complaint I could foresee about this text is that some of the chapters will take you substantially more than an hour to finish, unless you're either already familiar with Flash or are a really fast reader.
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Summary: Very good tutorial for flash newbs
Comment: I'm a programmer who was tasked with integrating a flash UI in to our system. Knowing absolutely nothing about flash, I picked this book up based on the reviews here, and I wasn't disappointed. I went from zero to hero, in less than the allotted 24 hours :) Though the author really does start from the basics, the exercises are well though out and the steps were correct (unlike the abysmal tutorials that Flash ships with!) He also goes in to good detail about the theory of what you're doing, which was nice. For example, he has a good treatise on animation, and an excellent description of how the shape tweening mechanics actually work. I definitely recommend this book if you're completely new to flash and need to get up to speed pretty quickly.
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Summary: Teach Yourself Flash CS3 in 24 Hours
Comment: This is a great book, although a couple of the ActionScript codes did not work the way that he wrote them, Flash was able to get me through. It is easy to follow, and an easy study. I am sure that there will be more that I get later to flesh out anything that I can't figure out on my own, but on a whole when you finish this book, you will be very comfortable with Flash CS3.
  
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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS3 Professional in 24 Hours

Phillip Kerman

24 Proven One-hour Lessons

 

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to create dynamic animations using Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of Flash from the ground up.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Flash tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to do something.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems, and give you advice on how to avoid them.

 

Learn how to…

o       Create, optimize, and export dynamic animated movies for the Web, disk, or CD

o       Integrate Flash animations with static HTML pages

o       Use Flash’s vector graphics tools, including filters and blends, to create drawings and animations

o       Use digital video in Flash movies

o       Animate using time-tested techniques and Flash’s special “tweening” features

o       Create powerful, interactive movies using the basics of ActionScript

o       Design Button, Graphic, and Movie Clip symbols and use them over and over without increasing file size

o       Import existing graphics from Illustrator® and Photoshop®

 

Phillip Kerman is an internationally recognized expert on the use of the Web and multimedia for training and entertainment. He frequently presents at Flash user conferences and has taught Flash and other authoring tools in workshops around the world.

 

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