Book Description
You've seen its potential—its new extensible architecture, its faster run-time performance, its redesigned interface. Now it's time to tap it! When you're ready to sit down with a trusted instructor and learn the ins and outs of Macromedia's extensive upgrade to its popular interactive tool Flash MX 2004, this is the place to turn. Using lessons based on real-life projects, this friendly guide takes you by the hand and leads you through the world of Flash MX 2004, covering its new interface, its drawing and color tools, animation basics, symbols and instances, motion, bitmaps, buttons, movie clips, ActionScript, sound, components and forms, video, and more. You can follow the book's clear, step-by-step exercises at your own pace and view the techniques in action on the accompanying CD's QuickTime tutorials. (The CD also includes project and sample files.) In next to no time, you'll be integrating video, text, audio, and graphics into immersive, rich experiences with Flash MX 2004.

About the Author
Rosanna Yeung Whoever told Rosanna that teaching was "work" sure hasn't witnessed her professorial multimedia magic at the Art Institute of California, where she teaches Web Design and Development classes. She's got this innate love for the creative freedom of the Web, and you can see the transference of her passion in the eyes of her students. Rosanna's creative energy doesn't only exist in the classroom or on the Web. Don't be surprised if you see her donning Rasta braids with a flock of friends on boards, surfing the sea or the snow. She's done her time in the business world as well-starting her creative adventures behind the camera and microphone in radio, TV, and film and then transitioning to multimedia and Web design in the corporate sector before heading off to the teaching world. Her work at Ingram Micro is actually where her love for teaching began-by no one's fault but her own, Rosanna found herself working with other departments and their Web content almost daily. Her knowledge of the Web and patience and passion for teaching made her the integral link from a print medium to a dynamic Web resource. When she's not writing on the chalkboard or surfing the Web, sea, or snow, you'll find her with her trusty companions-her husband, Alan, and her black Labrador, Forever-as they restore their new Eichler home in California.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
Need to learn Flash MX 2004 fast -- and thoroughly? This is as hands-on as it gets.

With help from the legendary Lynda Weinman, passionate web/multimedia instructor Rosanna Yeung has created a near-perfect Flash course: visual, practical, comprehensive, and fun. You￯﾿ﾽll learn through exercises using carefully crafted sample files. You￯﾿ﾽll get real-world scenarios and real insights into how each feature fits into your creative process. Whenever things get complicated, there￯﾿ﾽs a QuickTime movie to show, not tell.

Most of Flash MX 2004￯﾿ﾽs improvements are covered: aliased text, CSS support, automatic player detection, playback from disk, Behaviors Panel, and more. Invest a little time, gain true mastery. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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