May 2007
Beginner
530 pages
16h 16m
English
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Introduction
Flash has been the gold standard in multimedia creation software for almost 10 years. The program has come a long way since the mid-1990s, when professional animators—like those at Microsoft's MSN and Disney Online—used an early incarnation called FutureSplash. Over the years, Flash earned a following of programming geeks as an alternative to Java for creating vector-based Web graphics. In the 21st century, though, anyone with a desktop computer (or even a laptop) can be a Web animator. With Flash CS3's easy-to-use panels and toolbars, you can create sophisticated, interactive animations that run on the Web, standalone computers, handhelds, kiosks—virtually anywhere you find a screen (see Figure I-1).
Here are just some of the things you can create with Flash:
Drawings and animations. Flash gives you the drawing tools to create original artwork and the animation tools to give it movement and life. Then you can edit your Flash document in another program, add it to a Web page, or burn it to a CD or DVD. Flash recognizes multimedia files created using other programs, so you can enrich your animations with image, sound, and video files you already have (or that you find on the Web).
Multimedia Web sites. You can create original drawings and animations with Flash, add in voice-overs, background music, and video clips, and then publish it all to a Web page with the click of a button. Using Flash's built-in scripting language, ActionScript, you can add interactive features like ...
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