Pack pizzazz into your Web sites with Flash! Start with simple animation, or create whole pages in Flash The newest version of Flash offers all sorts of cool options for designing Web sites that stand out from the crowd, and this handy guide makes it easy. Enhance your site with animated graphics, boxes, or buttons; morph shapes; create text with exotically changing colors; add sound or video; and watch visitors flock to your site!

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. Register your book at www.samspublishing.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available.

With 75% of U.S. households having Internet connections, more people than ever are going online for information, shopping, or just to surf. The need for interactive and well-designed sites has never been higher, and more people are looking to learn—or improve—their Web skills. For the busy professionals whose boss wants them to jazz up their Web site, or the student burning the midnight oil to put together some Web animations for a class, Creating a Web Site with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Visual QuickProject Guide is just the book they need to start creating Flash sites in an instant. Pared down to just the essentials, this book shows readers who are short on time just what they need to know to accomplish their first project in Flash. Topics covered include using the Flash authoring tool, creating and animating graphics, tweening, loading dynamic data, adding sound and video, plus coverage of new Flash CS3 features: Primitive Object drawing tools, Adobe Illustrator import, Active content detection, and more. It’s everything readers need to know to develop their Web site using Adobe Flash! The book’s companion Web site offers project files and updates.

Clear, step-by-step screen shots arranged in two-page lessons show you how to tackle more than 140 Flash CS3 Professional tasks. No long-winded explanations, just easy, visual directions for performing such necessary operations as creating objects, symbols, and instances; controlling playback with the Timeline; adding interactivity with buttons; organizing project assets with the Library; creating animation with tweens; and adding sound and video . Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks, and it’s all presented for the visual learner.

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional FOR THOSE WHO WOULD RATHER BE SHOWN HOW THAN TOLD HOW SEE HOW TO • Improve publishing and productivity with the CS3 interface and templates • Browse, organize, and process files using Adobe Bridge and Version Cue • Import Photoshop and Illustrator files directly into Flash • Keep track of the changes in Flash on a per-object basis • Copy and paste graphic filters and motions • Create more compelling designs with built-in filter effects and gradients • Use blend modes to change the way the image of one object on the Stage is combined with other images • Preview changes to 9-slice scaled movie clips on Stage • Simplify common timeline and scripting tasks with Timeline Effects and Behaviors • Use Script Assisted mode to create scripts without detailed knowledge of ActionScript • Test content on different target devices using Adobe Device Central On the Web This book uses real world examples to give you a context in which to perform a task. This book also includes workshops to help you put together individual tasks into projects. The Flash example files that you need for project tasks are available at www.perspection.com.

Provides step-by-step tutorials that describe how to use the scripting features of ActionScript 3.0 to create Flash projects.