Flash CS4 All-in-one for Dummies

Doug Sahlin is a professional photographer and Web designer. His authoring credits include Building Web Sites All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies and Digital Photography Workbook For Dummies . Bill Sanders is a prolific author on Flash and Web technologies and operates his own multimedia consulting business at sandlight.com.

Introduction. Book I: Introducing Flash. Chapter 1: Exploring Flash. Chapter 2: Introducing Graphics, Symbols, and Animations. Chapter 3: The Engine Beneath Flash: ActionScript 3. Chapter 4: Creating Your First Flash Project. Chapter 5: Pushing the Panic Button - Help! Book II: Creating Graphics. Chapter 1: Creating Flashy Graphics. Chapter 2: A Splash of Color, S'il Vous Plait. Chapter 3: Getting the Word Out with Text. Chapter 4: Creating Graphic Symbols for Fun and Profi t. Chapter 5: Organizing Your Work. Chapter 6: Working with Images (Or, Bumpin' with Bitmaps). Book III: Animating Graphics. Chapter 1: Working with the Flash Timeline. Chapter 2: Creating a Flash Animation. Chapter 3: Animating Text. Chapter 4: Advanced Animation Techniques. Book IV: Adding ActionScript 3.0 Magic. Chapter 1: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad ActionScript 3.0? Chapter 2: Working Off the Timeline with Symbol and Component Classes. Chapter 3: Formal Features and Structures. Chapter 4: Making Decisions ... and Repeating Yourself. Chapter 5: Harnessing the Power of ActionScript 3.0. Book V: Working with Flash Audio. Chapter 1: Understanding Web Audio. Chapter 2: Adding Sound to a Flash Production. Chapter 3: Editing Sound Files. Book VI: Working with Flash Video. Chapter 1: Playing Video with Flash: The Producer's Chair. Chapter 2: From Camera to Desktop: Getting Video Ready for Prime Time. Chapter 3: Getting Video Files Ready for Flash. Chapter 4: Getting Fancy with Video. Chapter 5: Live! From Your Desktop! Chapter 6: Shooting a Video That Looks Good on the Web. Book VII: Getting Interactive. Chapter 1: Adding Buttons to a Flash Project. Chapter 2: Using Flash Components. Chapter 3: The Art and Science of Creating a Flash Application. Chapter 4: Up in the AIR. Book VIII: Finalizing a Flash Project. Chapter 1: Testing and Debugging a Flash Project. Chapter 2: Fine-Tuning and Optimizing Your Flash Project. Chapter 3: Dealing with Bandwidth. Chapter 4: Publishing Your Flash Project. Index.