Synopses & Reviews
If you're a Web designer, Macromedia Flash can help you create interactive effects that'll reel in site visitors-and keep them coming back for more. Using lots of example movies, clear step-by-step instructions, and 32 pages of vivid color illustrations, Gurdy Leete and Ellen Finkelstein walk you through 50 of today's coolest, fastest, "stickiest" Flash techniques, from amazing 2D and 3D animations and text effects to astonishing user interfaces and mini-applications.
Your Easy Guide to Macromedia Flash MX Tricks and Techniques
* Create talking cartoon heads, image morphs, and other attention-grabbing animations
* Go 3D with a rotating logo or globe
* Make text come alive with warping, swarming dots, and other effects
* Amaze viewers with interactive effects like scrolling panoramas and draggable masks
* Enhance the user experience with mouse trails, animated buttons, preloaders, and other interface techniques
* Build applications for news tickers, music keyboards, MP3 players, and more
CD-ROM includes example Adobe Photoshop Elements tryout version, Macromedia Flash MX trial version and more
Review
“…inspires you to push yourself using the techniques within…well-written, detailed and accessible…”(Practical Web Projects, August 2003)
Synopsis
* 50 cool techniques that will take your Flash animations to the next level. Includes topics such as Simulating a 3D Cube, Creating an Explosion, Building Letters from an Images, Making Mono Clips Sound Like Stereo, Creating a 3D Morph, Triggering Speech Bubbles, Building a User-response Form, Putting a Flash Movie onto a PDA.
* Covers the latest Flash "X" release. Most of these effects can also be created with Flash 5.
* 50 step-by-step methods to make your Flash 5 and Flash "X" animations more impressive, engaging, effective, and fun. Includes a 32-page full-color insert highlighting the most dramatic visual tricks.
About the Author
Ellen Finkelstein is the author of many other computer books, including AutoCAD 2002 Bible and several guides to PowerPoint.
Gurdy Leete, a professor of digital media at Maharishi University of Management, has twenty years of computer animation experience. Together, he and Ellen wrote Macromedia Flash MX For Dummies.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Chapter 1: 2D Animation.
Technique 1: A Line Drawing Itself.
Technique 2: Make a Character Walk.
Technique 3: Talking Head.
Technique 4: Create Ripples.
Technique 5: Dissolve a Vector into a Bitmap.
Technique 6: Morph a Geometric Shape into an Image.
Technique 7: Make Bubbles.
Technique 8: Kaleidoscope.
Technique 9: Wrap an Image.
Technique 10: Fireworks.
Chapter 2: 3D Animation.
Technique 11: Rotating 3D Logo.
Technique 12: Rotating Earth.
Chapter 3: Text.
Technique 13: Text Controlling Objects.
Technique 14: Animated Text Warping.
Technique 15: Text Morphing.
Technique 16: Movies Inside Text.
Technique 17: Swarming Dots Form Text.
Technique 18: Radiating Text Effects.
Chapter 4: Sound and Video.
Technique 19: On/Off and Volume Sound Controls.
Technique 20: Adding Video to a Flash Movie.
Chapter 5: Interactive Effects.
Technique 21: Draggable Magnifying Lens.
Technique 22: Draggable Movies.
Technique 23: Image Slide Scroller with Motion Blur.
Technique 24: Pan and Zoom an Image.
Technique 25: Make a Scrolling Virtual Reality Panorama.
Technique 26: Draggable Mask.
Technique 27: Interactive Shadows.
Chapter 6: User Interfaces.
Technique 28: Mouse Trails.
Technique 29: Tabbed Menu.
Technique 30: Scroll Bars.
Technique 31: Pop-Up Windows.
Technique 32: Create a Multiple Choice Quiz.
Technique 33: User Response Form.
Technique 34: Form Validation.
Technique 35: Collapsible Menu.
Technique 36: 3D Book as a User Interface.
Technique 37: Rollover Scroll.
Technique 38: Custom Cursors.
Technique 39: Cascading Menu.
Technique 40: Animated Button.
Technique 41: Preloader with Progress Display.
Technique 42: Slide Show with Special Effect Transitions.
Chapter 7: Mini-Applications.
Technique 43: News Ticker.
Technique 44 Digital or Analog Clock.
Technique 45: Music Keyboard and Synthesizer.
Technique 46: MP3 Player.
Technique 47: Drum Set.
Technique 48: On-Screen Print Program.
Technique 49: Calculator.
Technique 50: Create a Stand-Alone Movie.
Appendix A: What's On the CD-ROM.
Appendix B: Other Resources.
About the Author.
Colophon.
Index.
End-User License Agreement.